Courses Taught

• ENGL 006, Creative Writing Common Time (formerly ELISH 001)
• ENGL 015, Rhetoric and Composition
• ENGL 050, Introduction to Creative Writing
• ENGL 129, Shakespeare
• ENGL 209, Journal or Magazine Practicum (formerly ELISH 002)
  
• ENGL 212, Introduction to Fiction Writing
• ENGL 213, Introduction to Poetry Writing
• ENGL 263, Reading Poetry
• ENGL 296 & 496, Independent Study
• ENGL 401W, Creative Writing Theory (formerly ELISH 484W)
• ENGL 413, Advanced Poetry Writing (formerly ELISH 427)
• ENGL 423, Poetry Writing Workshop (formerly ELISH 430)
• ENGL 437, The Poet in America
• ENGL 444, Shakespeare
• ENGL 458, Twentieth-Century Poetry
• ENGL 494, Senior Thesis in English (formerly ELISH 494A)
• ENGL 495, Internship (formerly ELISH 495)
• PSU 007, First-Year Seminar Behrend
  
  For eight years, George Looney served as Editor-in-Chief of Mid-American Review, a journal he still serves as Translation Editor.  He taught in the BFA and MFA programs at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio for eleven years before coming to Penn State Erie.  For the last several years of his time at Bowling Green, he was in charge of the BFA program, and was advisor to the BFA students.  He is currently working on several collections of poetry in various stages of preparedness, a novel, and on a collection of fiction. He directs the creative writing program at Penn State Erie, which he designed, and is co-founder and co-director of The Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.

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