Graduate Teaching Assistants

Graduate students in English are traditionally offered teaching assistantships, which include tuition reimbursement, pedagogical training, and classroom experience. Our teaching assistants typically teach one course per semester under the supervision of the Director of Composition and an assigned faculty mentor. In addition, TAs assist five hours per week in the Writing Center.

Blume, Rachel (MFA)
areas of study: Fiction
email
: rablume@alaska.edu
 
Bolton, Elizabeth (MFA)
she / her
areas of study
: Creative Nonfiction, Community Writing, Feminist Pedagogies
email
: ebbolton@alaska.edu
 
Coble, Audrey (MFA)
they / them
areas of study
: Creative Nonfiction, Disability Studies, Digital Humanities
email
: aycoble@alaska.edu
 
Corby, Emma (MA)
 
Cosman, Delcenia (MFA)
 
Dominick, Matthew (MFA)
he / him
areas of
study: Genre and Literary Fiction, the Short Story, Screenwriting
email
mtdominick@alaska.edu
 
Feeley, Fidelis (MFA)
 
Ferguson, Lia (MFA)
she / her
areas of study
: Fiction, The Short Story,  STS
email
: ljferguson@alaska.edu
 
Jane (MFA)
areas of study: Screenwriting, Creative Nonfiction, Unsettling and Surreal
email
: jjacob7@alaska.edu
 
Janesheck, KJ (MFA/MA)
they / them
areas of study: Poetry, Queer Studies, Environmental Literature
Kitts, Kathy (MFA)
she / her
areas of
study: Fiction Writing, Speculative Fiction: Long and Short Forms
email: bkkitts@alaska.edu
 
Knuth, Jacob (MFA)
he / him
areas of study
: Poetry, Songwriting 
email
: jknuth2@alaska.edu
 
McIntyre, NĂ³ra (MFA)
any pronouns
areas of study
: Creative Writing (Cross-Genre)
email
: nmcintyre2@alaska.edu

Melendez, Manuel A. (MFA)
he / him
areas of study: Poetry, Playwriting, Screenwriting
email: mamelendez2@alaska.edu

Ott, Tim (MFA)
he / him
areas of study
: Fiction Writing, Russian Literature, Truth and Creativity
email: tjott@alaska.edu

Rutherford, Julia (MFA)
she / her
areas of study
: Creative Nonfiction, Editing and Publishing
email
: jrutherford@alaska.edu
 
Salzman, Aaron (MFA/MA)
he / him
areas of study
: Fiction, Nature and Environmental Writing, Bildungsroman 
email
: acsalzman@alaska.edu
 
Shomler, Zeke (MFA/MA)
he / him
areas of study
: Poetry Writing, Philosophy in Literature
email
: zshomler@alaska.edu
 
Skaggs, Courtney (MFA/MA)
she / they
areas of study
: Creative Nonfiction, Ecocriticism, Popular Culture Studies
email
: cmskaggs@alaska.edu
 
Yongue, Cade (MFA)
he / him
areas of study
: Fiction, Drama, Screenwriting
email
: cyongue@alaska.edu