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Mary Switalski Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer Literature

Degrees
MFA Â鶹´«Ã½
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, Â鶹´«Ã½ Transcendentalism, Modernism, the Beat Generation, and wilderness in the Â鶹´«Ã½ imagination. Non-academic interests include camping, music, travel, food, and Michigan football.
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive

Spring 2025

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar