MFA Faculty who regularly teach MFA workshops and/or serve on thesis committees.
Joseph Bates
PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2006
Co-Editor of the Miami University Press
Associate Professor of English
Areas: Narratology, Creative Writing Pedagogy, Fantastic, Absurd, and Grotesque Literatures; Southern Literature, Film Studies, Religion and Literature
Margaret Luongo
MFA, Creative Writing, University of Florida, 2001
Associate Professor of English
Areas: Creative writing practice, Short fiction, Experimental prose, Contemporary short forms
TaraShea Nesbit
PhD, University of Denver, 2015
Associate Professor of English
Areas: 20th and 21st Century Fiction and Creative Nonfiction, Historical Fiction, Lyric Essays, Multi-Genre Texts, Creative Writing Pedagogy.
Brian Ascalon Roley
JD, University of California, Los Angeles and MFA, Creative Writing, Cornell University, 1998
Professor of English and Affiliate of Global and Intercultural Studies, Director of Creative Writing
Areas: Creative Writing; Film, Theatre and Literature Adaptations; Disability / Medical Narratives; Contemporary and Twentieth Century Literature; Asian American Literature; Literature and the Law
Emily Spencer
Assistant Professor of English
M.F.A., University of Iowa, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
B.A., The Ohio State University
Areas: Poetry and Poetics, Writing and Health Science, Confessional Narrative, African American Writing, and Social Poetics
Keith Tuma
PhD, University of Chicago, 1987
Professor of English and Co-Editor of the Miami University Press
Areas: Modern and Contemporary British, Irish, American, and Anglophone Literature, Creative and Performance Writing, Poetry and Poetics, Anecdotes and Ephemera, Travel Writing
Cathy Wagner
PhD, University of Utah, 2000
Professor of English
Areas: Creative Writing, Poetry Writing, Contemporary and Modern American Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary and Modern British Poetry and Poetics, Poetry and Politics
Lizzie Hutton
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2018
Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Howe Writing Center
Areas: Writing Studies, literacy studies, reading-writing connection, disciplinary history of English studies, writing center studies, transfer studies
Visiting Faculty
Jen Sammons M.Ed., M.F.A.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Expertise: Lyric Essay, Autoethnography, Student Development Theory, Constructivist Pedagogy, Creative Writing, Hybrid Forms