Nora Boxer
- Teaching Assistant - Dissertator, English
- First-Year Composition Teaching Mentor
Education
MA Creative Writing Fiction, UT Austin 2010
BA English, Brown University, 1996
Courses Taught
- ENGLISH 100 - Introduction to College Writing and Reading
- ENGLISH 102 - College Writing and Research
- ENGLISH 233 - Introduction to Creative Writing
Via City College of San Francisco Arts Extension, various creative writing classes since 2015: Writers' Lab, The World in a Thimble: Short-Form Creative Writing, Writing as a Pathway Back to Self and Center, The Secret Lives of Things: Writing from Objects, The Mythopolitical, Poetry Workshop, Intermediate Fiction, Intro to Fiction
Teaching Interests
- New Materialism
- ecoliterature
- prose poetry
- non-workshop-based creative writing pedagogies and flipped/process-based classrooms
Research Interests
Eco-theory, artist residencies and socioarchitecture, language as metaphysics, language's relationship to healing/somatics, the narrative history of objects, fiction and identity, subcultural history, the attempts and failures of collectivism, lyric prose
Related Activities
- “Writing as Electron." 5th Writing Innovation Symposium, Marquette University, 2023. Conference poster/creative writing station
- “Why Have We Gathered Here? Tracking Differences in Adult Education and Undergraduate Creative Writing.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2023. Conference talk
- “Challenging the Norms of Academic Writing.” Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Virtual Teaching and Learning Symposium, UW-Milwaukee, 023. Co-presenter
- Alternative Assessment Working Group, Co-facilitator, 2022-present.
- “‘Pure Craft Is a Lie: Now What? Creative Writing Pedagogy in Action.” Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC), 2021. Roundtable presenter
- Art Editor, cream city review, 2019-2021.
- “Teaching Creative Writing in Community Settings.” Mills College MFA Program conference, 2017. Panelist
Academic Awards
- Graduate Student Excellence Fellowship (GSEF), 2022-23
- Chancellor's Award, UWM 2019-20
- Keene Prize for Literature, UT Austin 2010
- James A. Michener Fellowship, UT Austin Spring Semester 2010
Selected Publications
"Changing for Real,” The Garrison Institute, 2018. Interview with Buddhist teachers Sharon Salzberg and Ethan Nichtern on personal and societal change.