Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Department of English & World Languages
Karen Head is the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of English & World Languages at Augusta University. Previously, she was the Founding Director of the Center for Creativity & Innovation and a Professor of English & Technical Communication at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. She joined S&T after 17 years at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she served as the Executive Director of the Naugle Communication Center as well as the Associate Chair and Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. From 2006 to 2025, she was a Visiting Scholar and Artist at Technische-Universität-Dortmund.
Undergraduate Level
Advanced Creative Writing
American Studies Intensive Seminar (Technische Universität Dortmund)
British Poetry & Ekphrasis (GT Oxford Program)
Communication and Culture
Communication in Popular Culture
Composition I
Composition II
Creative Writing (Honors Program)
Freshman Composition 2.0 (GT MOOC)
Introduction to Creative Writing
Literature and Medicine
Major Authors-Jane Austen (GT Honors Program)
Major Authors-Jane Austen (GT Oxford Program)
Modern & Contemporary Poetry
Poetry and Poetics (GT Honors Program)
Professional Communication
Regionalism in American Literature-Southern Poetry
Technical Communication (CS focus-GT Barcelona Program)
Technical Communication (CS focus)
Technical Communication (Management Focus-GT Oxford Program))
World Literature
Graduate Level
Academic Presentations
Academic Writing
Introduction to Graduate Research & Communication
Studies in Translation (Global Media & Culture)
Her research focuses on higher education rhetoric; sustainable and innovative pedagogical spaces; development and administration of writing centers; and creative writing. She was part of a team awarded a Gates Foundation grant to develop a MOOC on college writing, and has presented and published widely about the experience, including in her book, Disrupt This!: MOOCs and the Promises of Technology (UPNE, 2017). She has published six books of poetry, including her most recent collection, What We Missed: New and Selected Poems in English, German, and French (Iris P, 2024), exhibited acclaimed digital poetry projects, and won the 2010 Oxford International Women’s Festival Poetry Prize. She is the immediate past editor of Southern Discourse in the Center: A Journal of Multiliteracy and Innovation and the editor emerita of Atlanta Review.
