Teresa Ryan
Terre Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. Terre’s research and teaching interests include creative writing, contemporary American literature of violence and war, American women’s poetics of place, American culture, and American landscape aesthetics. Her dissertation—a work in progress—examines some of the gaps in the landscape aesthetics of American national narrative. At UNR, Terre has taught College Composition 101 and 102, Introduction to Creative Writing, Advanced Expository Writing, and the American Experience and Constitutional Change. She also holds an M.B.A. in Marketing from Baruch College, and M. A. degrees in Creative Writing and Literature from, respectively, City College of New York and the University of Montana. At UNR, Terre was named a Distinguished Teaching Assistant in Core Humanities and has twice received an Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship. She also received a James H. MacMillan Scholarship for Writing About Nevada, and was a two-time winner of the Randall Reid Creative Writing Scholarship. Her essay, “In the Name of the Bomb: Confessions of a Cold War Catholic Kid,” received the Western Literature Association’s 2004 Frederick Manfred Award for Creative Writing.