Julie Marie Wade, PhD in Humanities '12

"I have always had trouble choosing “just one” of anything, and this is especially true when it comes to courses of study and educational paths to pursue. I love working in multiple literary genres, studying multiple disciplines simultaneously, and resisting simplistic binaries between “creative” and “critical.” The PhD program in Comparative Humanities at the University of Louisville embodies, for me, an innovative, “all of the above” approach to learning and teaching. My years in this program opened doors in my life as a scholar, writer, and professor that continue to swing wide, doors I plan to hold open for my own students for the rest of my academic career. I’m so grateful to have been able to mix and merge, fuse and blend my study of contemporary American literature and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies toward the completion of a queer, feminist bildungsroman and a critical afterword exploring the autobiographical impulse across various identities and modes of expression. I was mentored impeccably by my professors at UofL—their compassionate rigor and unflagging guidance. I carry their teachings with me in every aspect of my life."

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Julie Marie Wade is the author of 22 volumes of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including the new memoir Other People's Mothers (University Press of Florida, 2025). Other recent work includes Quick Change Artist: Poems (Anhinga Press, 2025), selected by Octavio Quintanilla as the winner of the 2023 Anhinga Prize in Poetry, The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020 (Small Harbor Editions, 2025), co-authored with Denise Duhamel, Fisk, By Analogy (CutBank Prose Chapbook Series, 2025),  and the nonfiction novella, The Mary Years (Texas Review Press, 2024), selected by Michael Martone as the winner of the 2023 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize.  A finalist for the National Poetry Series and a winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, Wade is Professor of English & Creative Writing at Florida International University in Miami.

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