Associate Professor, English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Coordinator, English Program
Hawthorn Building, 213
Biography
Megan Simpson received her Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico. She has an M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in literature/creative writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Simpson is the author of "Poetic Epistemologies: Gender and Knowing in Women's Language-Oriented Writing." Her teaching and research interests include African American literature, multiethnic literatures of the U.S., poetry, women writers, and literary theory.
Research Interests
African American literature
Multiethnic American literature
Contemporary American poetry
Experimental writing
Women writers
Literary criticism
Critical race theory
Gender studies