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Officers and Staff
Department Chair

Benjamin Reiss
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Department Chair
Callaway N302-D
Program Directors

Tayari Jones
Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing, Director of Creative Writing Program
N116 Callaway

Ross Knecht
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Callaway N303-B

Laura Otis
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of English, Director of Graduate Admissions
Callaway N306

Joonna Smitherman Trapp
Associate Teaching Professor, Director of Emory Writing Program

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Callaway N302D
Staff

Nora Lewis
Creative Writing Academic Department Administrator
Callaway N209