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Mary Switalski Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer Literature

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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Teaching

Spring 2024

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar

Fall 2024

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive