Professor in English
College of Arts and Humanities

• AB in English with Honors, Gettysburg College
• MA in English, University of Washington
• PhD in English and Creative Writing, University of Houston

Dr. Ulmer teaches creative writing workshops, as well as American Literature, Continental Literature, and Senior Seminars in English.

Courses taught include:

• Poetry Writing
• Advanced Poetry Writing
• Fiction Writing
• Advanced Fiction Writing
• American Literature I and II
• Senior Seminar in Yeats and Eliot
• Senior Seminars in Poetry and Fiction Writing

Dr. Ulmer has published poetry in The New Yorker, Poetry, Crazyhorse, The Missouri Review, The Antioch Review, The New Criterion, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. His collection of poems, Notes Toward a City of Rain, was published by Uroboros Press in 1996. He has published fiction in The North American Review.

In addition, Dr. Ulmer has served as a judge for The Texas Commission on the Arts and is a former Hoyns Fellow at The University of Washington, Cullen Fellow at the University of Houston, and resident at The MacDowell Colony. He has won two Creative Artists Program grants from The Houston Arts Council.

Dr. Ulmer serves as faculty adviser for Crossroads, the award-wining HBU student literary magazine. He also administers The Danny Lee Lawrence Creative Writing Awards. These prizes, which are awarded every Spring, honor talented student writers on the HBU campus.

He is a past recipient of the Opal Goolsby Outstanding Teaching Award.

Campus Address: UAC 137
Email: julmer@hbu.edu
Telephone: (281) 649-3614