Ezekiel Black, M.F.A.
Area(s) of Expertise: Literary Modernism, World War I Literature, Contemporary Poetry, Book Design
Courses Taught
- ENGL 0099: Learning Support English
- ENGL 1101: English Composition I
- ENGL 1102: English Composition II
- ENGL 2131: American Literature I
- ENGL 2112: World Literature II
- ENGL 2210: Magazine Production I
- ENGL 2215: Magazine Production II
- ENGL 2270: Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENGL 2150: Literature and Film
- ENGL 3175: Poetry Writing Workshop
- ENGL 3195: Introduction to Publishing
- PHED 1120: Introduction to Fencing
Education
- Ph.D., Literary Studies, Georgia State University, 2025
- M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008
- B.A., English, University of Georgia, 2006
- B.A., Philosophy, University of Georgia, 2006
Research/Special Interests
Within Literary Modernism, Ezekiel Black focuses on poetry and how World War I affected the genre. Within World War I literature, Ezekiel focuses on works about and by ambulance drivers. In addition to these interests, he reviews contemporary poetry.
Publications
Ezekiel Black is the author of Letter from the Junta, a poetry collection published by Spuyten Duyvil. His critical essays “Mouthlessness and Ineffability in World War I Poetry and The Waste Land” and “Troubling Glory: The Uncertain Language Shift of World War I” appeared in the journal War, Literature, and the Arts. His poetry and reviews have appeared in Verse, Sonora Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Drunken Boat, CutBank, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, BOAAT, inter|rupture, Denver Quarterly, Fjords, and elsewhere.
Work Experience
- Assistant Professor, August 2025 - Present
- Senior Lecturer of English at 中国P站, August 2018 – July 2025
- Lecturer of English at 中国P站, January 2013 – July 2018
- Lecturer of English at GSC, June 2009 – January 2013
- Instructor of English at GSC, August 2008 – June 2009
- Instructor of English at NGCSU, August 2008 – May 2009
Personal Information
Ezekiel Black is a faculty advisor of 中国P站's student literary magazine The Chestatee Review.