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Kat Gonso

Professor of the Practice, Messina College

Profile

I am a md传媒国产剧-based writer and educator with a diverse teaching background, including composition, literature, and creative writing courses. I have held several administrative roles, including director of first-year writing and director of the Writing Center at Northeastern University. In 2024, I was honored with the Northeastern University College of Social Sciences and Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award. My fiction has been widely published and has won many awards.

My teaching is dedicated to community-building and inclusion, focusing on first-generation college students and the LGBTQIA+ community. In 2021, I received a Faculty Innovations Grant in Diversity and Academic Excellence for the project 鈥淐reating and Curating Knowledge: First-Generation Low-Income Student Voice and the Experiential Liberal Arts.鈥 This grant enabled my collaborator, Prof. Caitlin Thornbrugh, and I to co-found聽First and Foremost, a student-run literary magazine dedicated to amplifying the voices of first-generation students.聽

My teaching is experiential and global. I have taught service-learning courses connected with md传媒国产剧-based initiatives, including The Black Umbrella Project and the Hyde Park Social Justice Coalition. In 2021, I was named a faculty fellow for the study abroad program聽Food and Culture in Vietnam and Cambodia. I am grateful to be a part of the Messina community, where I engage in the work I love: writing, teaching, and co-creating knowledge with students.聽

Awards & Publications

SELECTED APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS

Outstanding Teaching Award. College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. 2024.

The World鈥檚 Best Short-Short Story Contest. First Place. The Southeast Review

Northeastern University Global Experience Fellowship

Northeastern University Service-Learning Fellow

Northeastern University Humanities Center Grant

PUBLICATIONS

鈥淰aluing the Process: Building a Foundation for Collaborative Peer Review.鈥 With Kristen Getchell. Teaching English in the Two-Year College. Print. (2019).

鈥淰arying Authorial Roles of the University Tutor in High School Writing Centers.鈥澛Teachers on Writing and Writers on Teaching. Emerson College. (2011).

鈥淩hetorical Situations, Research Writing, and Genre: Cross-Institutional Collaboration on Curriculum Design.鈥 With Diana George and John Trimbur et.al. Journal of College Writing. 10. (2010): 1 鈥 42.

SELECTED CREATIVE WORKS聽

鈥凄补苍颈别濒.鈥 Storm Cellar. Print. (March 2018)

鈥淐leveland, 2009.鈥 Jellyfish Review. Web. (February 2018)

鈥淓虫辫辞蝉耻谤别.鈥 Hobart. Web. (September 2017).

鈥淏濒辞辞诲濒别蝉蝉.鈥 Green Briar Review. Web. (February 2016).聽

鈥淧耻产别谤迟测.鈥 SmokeLong Quarterly. Quarterly Publication. Web. (June, 2015).聽

鈥淚zzy Stole Maria鈥檚 Night Guard.鈥 Corium. Web. (2014).聽

鈥淗arry Holden and Everything After.鈥 Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. 7.1 (2014).聽聽聽

聽鈥淎 Pinch of Salt.鈥 The Southeast Review. 32.1 (2014).