Professor Dungy has taught the Intermediate and Advanced Poetry Workshop, Environmental Literature, Writing the Environment, African American Literature, Recent U.S. Poetry, and graduate seminars in Docupoetics, Kinship and Community, and Literary Mapping.

Camille T. Dungy is the author of the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (W. W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award. She edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (UGA, 2009), co-edited the From the Fishouse poetry anthology (Persea, 2009), and served as assistant editor on Gathering Ground: Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade (University of Michigan Press, 2006). Dungy's work has appeared in Best American Poetry, 100 Best African American Poems, Best American Essays, Best American Travel Essays, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, New Daughters of Africa, nearly 30 other anthologies, plus dozens of print and online venues including Poetry, American Poetry Review, VQR, Literary Hub, Orion, The Paris Review, Emergence Magazine, and Poets.org. Her honors include a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, two NAACP Image Award Nominations, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in both prose and poetry.