Laura S. McKee

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Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum

Laura S. McKee (publications under L.S. McKee) is Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum. In this role, she teaches in the English department and works with the Writing Intensive Program and the Willis Center for Writing to support programmatic and curricular initiatives, especially those focused on writing pedagogy, STEM writing, and interdisciplinary collaboration. 

As a writer and teacher, she specializes in exploring the connections between literature, art, and STEM. She is the author of Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, winner of the 2022 Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry selected by Tiana Clark. She received her MFA from the University of Maryland and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. 

She has taught at several institutions, including MIT and the University of West Georgia, where she co-directed the STEM-to-STEAM composition program, a first-year writing collaboration between the English Department and the College of Science and Mathematics. 

Currently, at UGA, she teaches ENGL 3860W: Science Writing for General Audiences, ENGL 3835: Literature and the Natural World, WIPP 7001: Pedagogy of Writing in the Disciplines, and ENGL 1102.

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Spring 2027: Couse Description for ENGL 3835: Literature & the Natural World 

Tues/Thurs: 1:15-2:35, Park Hall

Taught by Laura S. McKee

How can reading and writing about literature focused on the natural world expand our understanding and appreciation for nature while providing an opportunity to more closely examine our relationships with our larger world, local ecologies, communities, and ourselves? In this course, students will explore these questions through careful reading and analysis of literary texts about nature (poems, fiction, essays) and critical-reflective writing including journaling, literary and rhetorical analysis, book reviews, and multi-media projects driven by individual student interests (e.g. podcast, commonplace book, newsletter/blog). This class is a great fit for anyone interested in stories about the natural world; topics in sustainability; or in writing more skillfully and persuasively about nature in academic, creative, and/or professional contexts.
 
Readings will include work by writers such as Margaret Renkl, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Jamaica Kincaid, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Sean Hill, J. Drew Lanham, Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Powers, Stephanie Soileau, Ross Gay, Elizabeth Bradfield, Lacy M. Johnson, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry David Thoreau, and others.
 
Feel free to reach out with questions: l.mckee@uga.edu.

 

Of note:

Recent podcast appearance: Lock the Quill with Daniel Braunstein (MIT Mechanical Engineering & Pappalardo Lab Podcast): 
"Talking with the Engineer About Poetry: L.S. McKee on Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine"

Winner 2022 Zone 3 First Book Award in Poetry selected by Tiana Clark
 

Contact Information

l.mckee@uga.edu
Office: Park 201
Office Hours:
Fall 2026, Wed. 10-11 am, and Tues., Wed., Thurs. by appointment

Other Information

Curriculum Vitae: _CV_L.S.McKee_Jan.2026_UGA.pdf (251.77 KB)
Other Affiliations: Writing Intensive Program, The Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing
Professional Website: https://lsmckee.com/index.html

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