Donovan McAbee

Biography

At Belmont, I’m given the joy and privilege to step into the classroom with bright, energetic, and creative students. In the classes I teach, we explore the intersections of theology and the arts. Whether in my Theology and Literature course—“The Christ-Haunted South”—or in my Writing for Spirituality course, I empower students to unearth the theological insights of literature, the arts, and of their own lived experience. My research interests include Writing and Spirituality, Religion and Literature, and Contemporary Poetry.

My poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Hudson Review, The Sun (US), The Christian Century, Five Points, The Greensboro Review, and a variety of other publications. I have been awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. My chapbook of poetry, Sightings, was recently published in the Floodgate Poetry Series, Volume 7, and my academic monograph, Charles Simic and the Poetics of Uncertainty, was published in 2020.