Gary Ettari
Assistant Professor
 

Education:

B.A.--Brigham Young University
MFA--University of Washington
PhD--University of Washington
 

Recent teaching:

Literature 241 - Intro to Poetry

Literature 322 - Western Literature: Renaissance to Enlightenment

Humanities 214 - Medieval & Renaissance World

Contact information:

Office: KH-237

Office Phone: (828) 251-6598

gettari@unca.edu

Recent publications and Presentations:

"Reading (and) the Profession" (co-authored with Heather Easterling) in Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism and Pedagogy, no. 47 (Fall 2002)

"'That Mirrour Faire': Samuel Daniel and the Collapse of the Subject,"
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 23, 2005

"Midnight at the Writer's Get-Acquainted Party", Concho River Review, Fall
2006

"Rehearsal: Archibald Mcleish's JB", North Carolina Literary Review, Fall 2006
 

I was first runner-up in the Jarrell chapbook contest held by the North Carolina Writer's Network and they put the top three poets on their website.
If anyone wants to see a bad picture of me and a few of my hopefully better-looking poems, they can check out this link:
http://www.ncarts.org/freeform_scrn_template.cfm?ffscrn_id=185

 

Personal statement:

As someone who was trained as both a creative writer and a Renaissance scholar, I feel privileged to work at a place like UNCA where I am able to teach creative writing, Intro to Poetry, the Renaissance to Enlightenment survey course (LIT 322) and the Shakespeare senior seminar (LIT 485). I also enjoy teaching in the Humanities program (214, mostly) and in the Honors program.
My other academic interests include the interesting collision between anatomical and aesthetic theory in the Renaissance and the scholarship of teaching. I love working here at UNCA with so many brilliant and kind colleagues and wonderful students. Students who take my classes should be prepared to write a lot, to read closely and carefully, and to hear me effuse about Jacobean revenge tragedies and Bruce Springsteen.