Piers Gelly

Assistant Professor, General Faculty

Bryan Hall 234

Office Hours: Office hours MW 10-11:30 and by appointment
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Degrees
MFA in Fiction, University of Virginia, 2019
BA from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, 2013
 
Books
Hoos Not Getting Paid: the voices of graduate student workers at the University of Virginia. Edited collection forthcoming from Parlor Press, 2024.
Collective Bargaining for the Common Good. Student- and community-curated exhibition (and associated catalog) at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, March to June 2024.
 
Selected Publications
“Brooding,” The Dublin Review, summer 2024. Essay.
“The Great Joke,” The Stinging Fly, summer 2024. Fiction (with the poet Peter Myers).
“Gimlet on the Rocks,” n+1, fall 2023. Essay.
“A Push to Reverse ‘Wokeness’ at U.VA.,” The New York Times, May 2023. Essay.
“Autofiction,” poiesis, fall 2021. Fiction (with Peter Myers).
“A Truck of Bees Overturns on the Highway,” The Stinging Fly, summer 2019. Fiction.
“Proust Springsteen,” The Literary Review, 2018. Essay.
 
Conference Presentations
“Exquisite Corpse, or Human Centipede?,” ReVIEWING Black Mountain College conference, 2021.
 
Grants and Awards
Learning Technology Incubator Grant, UVA Learning Design & Technology Program, 2024
Nomination for the UVA Provost’s All-University Teaching Award, 2024
Gun Violence Solutions Grant, UVA Gun Violence Solutions Faculty Working Group, 2024
Affordability and Equity Grant, UVA Library, 2023
Edgar F. Shannon Fellowship, UVA Department of English, 2022-2023
Center Grant, UVA Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation, 2022
Active Archive Fellowship, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2021
Richard Guy Wilson Prize for Excellence in the Study of Buildings, Landscapes, and Spaces, UVA School of Architecture, 2019
Henfield Prize for Fiction, McCrindle Foundation/UVA, 2019