Dr. Haley Larson
Dr. Haley Larson
PRIMARY SPECIALTY
English
CONTACT
Biography
Dr. Haley Larson serves as an associate professor of English in the School of Arts and Sciences at University of Massachusetts Global. Dr. Larson’s research interests include poetics, media cultures, and twentieth and twenty-first century art and literature. She has contributed to public digital humanities and education projects with the International Writing Program at University of Iowa and Fluxus Digital Collection, as well as local creative workshops and literary events.
Since her first teaching appointment at Colorado State University, Larson has taught undergraduate courses in creative writing, literature, rhetoric, composition, publishing, film, digital media, and design. As an educator, she is particularly invested in creative-critical practices, including their applications for interdisciplinary collaboration and problem-solving.
Larson’s poems and essays have appeared in La Petite Zine, Drunken Boat, Pasque Petals, Fourteen Hills, and other journals. Her film and video work has screened at Raindance Film Festival-London, Experimental Film Festival-Portland, Northwest Film Forum’s Cadence Video Poetry Festival, Denver STARZ Film Festival, and other spaces.
Specialty
- English
- Critical Media Studies
- Digital Media
- Poetry and Poetics
- Creative Writing
Education
2020
Ph.D. in English
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Dissertation: "Writing That Reads: Collage Poetics and Aesthetic Techniques as Media Literacies"
2012
M.F.A. in Creative Writing-Poetry
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Thesis: “(said I meant)”
2007
B.A. in Psychology, University Honors Program
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Minor: Music (vocal performance)
Scholarly Activities
2024
"Ancient Alphabets," Pasque Petals, vol. 98, no. 1, Spring 2024
2021
"Sounding Out Dada: Mina Loy and Reading Time," Popular Culture, Association National Conference
2018
"Troubled Report and Distorted Time: (De)Composition in Tracie Morris's 'Afrika,'", Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference
Professional Experiences
2018 - 2024
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor of English for New Media
Dakota State University, Madison, SD
Taught undergraduate students and developed onsite and online courses in digital media, writing, film and literature, and publishing. Managed New Tricks art and literary magazine.
2016 - 2018
Graduate Instructor
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Developed and taught general education literature courses.
2015 - 2016
Research Assistant
International Writing Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Co-developed and produced Massive Open Online Courses in creative writing and literature for global students.