Piers Gelly
Bryan Hall 234 / On leave Fall 2025.
Website
Degrees
MFA in Fiction, University of Virginia, 2019
BA from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, 2013
Books
Hoos Not Getting Paid: the voices of graduate student workers at the University of Virginia. Edited collection forthcoming from Parlor Press, 2025.
Collective Bargaining for the Common Good. Student- and community-curated exhibition (and associated catalog) at UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, March to June 2024.
Selected Publications
“What Happened When I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT,” Literary Hub, August 2025. Essay.“Rightful Trespass,” The Point, May 2025. Essay.“He Got Away With Everything,” Literary Hub, January 2025. Essay.“So Far, So Good,” The Point, December 2024. Essay.“Brooding,” The Dublin Review, summer 2024. Essay.“The Great Joke,” The Stinging Fly, summer 2024. Fiction (with the poet Peter Myers).“Gimlet on the Rocks,” n+1, fall 2023. Essay.“A Push to Reverse ‘Wokeness’ at U.VA.,” The New York Times, May 2023. Essay.“Autofiction,” poiesis, fall 2021. Fiction (with Peter Myers).“A Truck of Bees Overturns on the Highway,” The Stinging Fly, summer 2019. Fiction.“Proust Springsteen,” The Literary Review, 2018. Essay.
Conference Presentations
“The Sound of Solidarity: podcasting, pedagogy, and higher-education labor organizing,” Humanities Podcast Network Symposium, November 2024.“Collective Bargaining, Collaborative Authorship,” VIVA Open and Affordable Community Forum, November 2024.“UVA’s Labor History,” OER in Action Conference, UVA Library, February 2024.“Exquisite Corpse, or Human Centipede?,” ReVIEWING Black Mountain College conference, 2021.
Grants and Awards
Thrive Grant, UVA Center for Teaching Excellence, 2025Learning Technology Incubator Grant, UVA Learning Design & Technology Program, 2024Nomination for the UVA Provost’s All-University Teaching Award, 2024Gun Violence Solutions Grant, UVA Gun Violence Solutions Faculty Working Group, 2024Affordability and Equity Grant, UVA Library, 2023Edgar F. Shannon Fellowship, UVA Department of English, 2022-2023Center Grant, UVA Center for Global Inquiry + Innovation, 2022Active Archive Fellowship, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2021Richard Guy Wilson Prize for Excellence in the Study of Buildings, Landscapes, and Spaces, UVA School of Architecture, 2019Henfield Prize for Fiction, McCrindle Foundation/UVA, 2019