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Ed Madden

Ed Madden is an associate professor of English at University of South Carolina, and directs USC's Women's and Gender Studies undergraduate program. Madden also serves as a poet-in-residence at the Richland Northeast High School's Palmetto Center for the Arts. With a doctorate in English from the University of Texas, he has published numerous books, poems, articles and essays.

Madden has received at least four fellowships, including a contemporary theatre fellowship to attend the IES Abroad Dublin and London Faculty Development Seminar in 2008. Madden has also been recognized with a range of awards, including the 2008 Mortarboard Senior Honor Society Excellence in Teaching Award. He was named a 2008 S.C. Fiction Project Winner, for short story Room 208, and won the 2007 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, for Signals, from the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and USC Press.