Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer

You are here: American University College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Mary Switalski

Degrees: MFA American University
BA University of Michigan
Bio: Mary Switalski began teaching at AU in 2007 while completing her MFA. She earned her BA in English Literature with a Creative Writing Subconcentration from the University of Michigan. She has also taught at the University of Maryland. She writes short fiction and was a recipient of a 2010 Individual Artist Award in Fiction granted by the Maryland State Arts Council. Her academic interests include resistance rhetoric and counter-culture movements, art and art criticism, American Transcendentalism, Modernism, the Beat Generation, and wilderness in the American imagination. Non-academic interests include camping, music, travel, food, and Michigan football.

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