Julie Doxsee
Academic and Creative Bio

Julie Doxsee joined the faculty at Harrisburg University as Associate Professor of English in 2019, where she designs curricula for a diverse population of learners from 110 countries, serves as Vice Chair of the Technology Across the Curriculum Committee, and holds a seat on the Institutional Review Board. Before moving to Pennsylvania in 2016, Dr. Doxsee spent nine years teaching in the Academic Writing Program and Comparative Literature Program at Koc University in Istanbul, Turkey. Throughout a 24-year career in academia, she has held various leadership positions, including directing the Academic Writing Program at Koc University and co-coordinating the Communication Program at Koc. Teaching and curriculum development include a range of foundational and advanced humanities courses, ELL core courses, multi-genre creative writing, creative arts and performance, technical writing, research methods, and literature. 

 

In addition to an international career in teaching academic writing, ELL writing, creative writing, and literature, Dr. Doxsee is an actively publishing poet and nonfiction author. Reviewers have referred to her poetry “a series of fun-house mirrors” and “loops and knots of iron that hold the secrets to their allure in underlying geometrical patterns.”  

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PRAISE

Doxsee has a gift for crafting visceral, sonically alluring images that are pliable yet precisely structured. . . . This is an enigmatic but perceptive inventory of emotions that emerge in the liminal land visited in waking dreams.

----Publishers Weekly

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One cannot help but be quietly, delicately overwhelmed and, at last, astounded.

—The Volta

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Doxsee delivers coherence applied through language handled with subtle, deliberate emotion-fueled sense. ‘Set your / cloud to the kind of clock / vultures circle,’ and take in this book’s direct address to poetry’s paradoxical glance toward the axis on which mortality rests. This is a disturbing book, as it ought to be. Our situation is, we are, disturbing.

—Dara Wier

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Julie Doxsee has already produced a remarkable body of work. Her second book, Objects for a Fog Death, announces itself as a new dimension; a larger, more vulnerable, and more ambitious engagement with mind and matter. Just as the boundaries of fog are ever shifting, so are these brilliant poems, which redefine themselves and the genre with every page. These are poems which cause lemons to fly out of trucks and leave watermarks on the sky—I believe that.

—Bin Ramke