Melissa Degezelle, MFA
Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
Education
MFA in Creative Writing, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 2010
BA in Women’s Studies, Pennsylvania State University, 2002
BA in English, Pennsylvania State University, 2002
Awards
Roydhouse Teaching Innovation Award, Philadelphia University, 2017
Research Interests
Melissa DeGezelle is interested in finding ways toward liberating pedagogy through transformative alternatives to conventional grading and incorporating community-building organizing models for the classroom. She has experience as a birth doula, patient advocate, sexual health teaching associate, poet, and labor activist. She is currently researching extended trauma as it relates to reimagining flow state in writing studies and also rebuilding meaningful connections between students and educators. She primarily teaches writing courses within the Hallmarks program.