Summary
Joanne Mallari teaches courses in first-year writing and creative writing at the University of Nevada, Reno. As the 2025-2027 David H. Fenimore Distinguished Teaching Fellow, she collaborates with the First-Generation Student Center to remove academic and social barriers to success in higher education. She aims to increase mentorship for first-generation college students by leading faculty trainings, developing academic success workshops for the Upward Bound Programs and offering a first-gen ENG 102 course for the Core Writing Program.
Currently, she is working on a poetry chapbook that explores the expansive potential of aro/ace desires.
Selected publications
- Poetry Chapbooks
- Alternate Endings (forthcoming from Kelsay Books)
- Daughter Tongue, Kelsay Books, 2020
Courses taught
- ENG 100I: Composition Intensive
- ENG 101: Composition I
- ENG 102: Composition II
- ENG 205: Introduction to Creative Writing
- ENG 298: Writing About Literature
- ENG 307: Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry I
- CH 201: Ancient and Medieval Cultures
Education
- MFA, Creative Writing (poetry), University of Nevada, Reno, 2018
- B.A., Spanish, University of Nevada, Reno, 2015
- B.A., English (writing), University of Nevada, Reno, 2011