Contact Information
Office Hours
Research Areas
Research Interests
- Fiction
- Creative nonfiction
Education
- B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University (English/Creative Writing; summa cum laude)
- M.F.A. University of Iowa Writers' Workshop
Courses Taught
- Fiction Workshop (I, II, and III)
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- The Craft of Fiction (graduate seminar)
- Environmental Writing
- Creative Nonfiction
- Slay Them with a Sentence
- Mind Music: Writing the Lyric Essay
- Graduate Fiction Workshop
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, English
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Hassinger, A. (2004). Nina: Adolescence. G.P. Putnam & Sons.
Hassinger, A. (2006). The Priest’s Madonna. G.P. Putnam & Sons.
Hassinger, A. (2016). After the Dam. Red Hen Press.
Hassinger, A. (2016, Sep 16). Skinny-Dipping with Grandma. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/well/family/skinny-dipping-with-grandma.html
Hassinger, A. (2016, Jun 3). Higher Education in Illinois is Dying. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/04/opinion/higher-education-in-illinois-is-dying.html
Hassinger, A. (2021, Mar 3). To See Clearly. The Normal School. https://www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2021/03/03/amy-hassinger?fbclid=IwAR1d28Hjb27OXsk6c_XWuPntLwV9_jpmrqgvzmqm3WjKbxE4FxAkX0cKP_o
Recent Publications
Hassinger, A. (2024, Jan). On Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life" and the Drive to Disappear. (1 ed.) Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. https://blackbird.vcu.edu/on-billy-strayhorns-lush-life-and-the-drive-to-disappear/
Hassinger, A. (2023). Breathe Me Home: A Remembrance via Thomas Andrew Dorsey’s “Take My Hand, Precious Lord”. In B. A. Kaplan (Ed.), Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches (pp. 195–204). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350233164.ch-14
Hassinger, A. (2021). Story Comes from Place: on SITE FIDELITY, by Claire Boyles. Kenyon Review, March 2021(KR Reviews online). https://kenyonreview.org/reviews/site-fidelity-by-claire-boyles-738439/
Hassinger, A. (2021, Mar 3). To See Clearly. The Normal School. https://www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2021/03/03/amy-hassinger?fbclid=IwAR1d28Hjb27OXsk6c_XWuPntLwV9_jpmrqgvzmqm3WjKbxE4FxAkX0cKP_o
Hassinger, A. (2020, Aug 17). In Search of Structure: Reflections on Form in Four Recent Book-Length Essays. Another Chicago Magazine. https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/2020/08/17/in-search-of-structure-reflections-on-form-in-four-recent-book-length-essays-by-amy-hassinger/?fbclid=IwAR1mlrXAm_Krt5K0LlkIbVJO2f0LGjuXUQRAqFKK12KA11flROJiEC064g8