{"id":1685,"date":"2023-09-07T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T03:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/?page_id=1685"},"modified":"2026-04-28T00:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:27:02","slug":"mfa-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/mfa-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MFA Faculty who regularly teach MFA workshops and\/or serve on thesis committees.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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Joseph Bates<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2006
Co-Editor of the Miami University Press
Associate Professor of English<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Areas: Narratology, Creative Writing Pedagogy, Fantastic, Absurd, and Grotesque Literatures; Southern Literature, Film Studies, Religion and Literature<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Margaret Luongo<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

MFA, Creative Writing, University of Florida, 2001
Professor of English<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Areas: Creative writing practice, Short fiction, Experimental prose, Contemporary short forms<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TaraShea Nesbit<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

PhD, University of Denver, 2015
Associate Professor of English<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Areas: 20th and 21st Century Fiction and Creative Nonfiction, Historical Fiction, Lyric Essays, Multi-Genre Texts, Creative Writing Pedagogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brian Ascalon Roley<\/a> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

JD, University of California, Los Angeles
MFA, Cornell University <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor of English and Affiliate of Global and Intercultural Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Areas: Creative Writing; Film, Theatre and Literature Adaptations; Disability \/ Medical Narratives; Contemporary and Twentieth Century Literature; Asian American Literature; Literature and the Law<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Emily Spencer<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor of English<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

M.F.A., University of Iowa, Iowa Writers’ Workshop
B.A., The Ohio State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas: Creative Writing, Poetry & Poetics, & Contemporary Poetry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Keith Tuma<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

PhD, University of Chicago, 1987
Professor of English and Co-Editor of the Miami University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Areas: Modern and Contemporary British, Irish, American, and Anglophone Literature, Creative and Performance Writing, Poetry and Poetics, Anecdotes and Ephemera, Travel Writing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cathy Wagner<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

PhD, University of Utah, 2000
Professor of English<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Areas: Creative Writing, Poetry Writing, Contemporary and Modern American Poetry and Poetics, Contemporary and Modern British Poetry and Poetics, Poetry and Politics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lizzie Hutton<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Howe Writing Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas: Writing Studies, literacy studies, reading-writing connection, disciplinary history of English studies, writing center studies, transfer studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Visiting Faculty
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Jen Sammons M.Ed., M.F.A.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Visiting Assistant Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expertise:<\/strong> Lyric Essay, Autoethnography, Student Development Theory, Constructivist Pedagogy, Creative Writing, Hybrid Forms<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expertise: Lyric Essay, Autoethnography, Student Development Theory, Constructivist Pedagogy, Creative Writing, Hybrid Forms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MFA Faculty who regularly teach MFA workshops and\/or serve on thesis committees. Joseph Bates PhD, University of Cincinnati, 2006Co-Editor of the Miami University PressAssociate 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, 2001Professor of English Areas: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7434,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1685","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7434"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1685\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}