Title: Writer in Residence
Department: English
Research Fields of Interest: Fiction Writing; American Literature; Black Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Degrees: B.A., Haverford College; MFA., The University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., University at Albany (SUNY)
Contact Info:
Email: mchristmas@allegheny.edu
Phone: (814) 332 4337
Office Location: Odd Fellows 233
Office Hours(Fall ’23): Mondays & Wednesdays 2:20-4:20pm(in person or Zoom); Fridays 10:00am-12:00pm(Zoom only) and by appointment
Courses(Fall ’23):
ENGL 118 – Literature and the Mind
ENGL 205 – Writing Fiction
ENGL 301 – Forms of Fiction
Awards:
- 2020 Writers’ Award 2020, Rona Jaffe Foundation
- 2013 Fiction Winner, Black Warrior Review
Select Publications:
- 2019 “Beam.” Cosmonauts Avenue Web:
- 2018 “A Non-Orientable Surface.” New Ohio Review Web: https://newohioreview.
org/2019/03/15/a-non- orientable-surface/ - 2017 “Blood Diamond.” Juked Web: https://juked.com/2017/08/
mari-christmas-blood-diamond. asp - 2017 “Woodland.” Fence Vol. 18 No. 2: 34-47
- 2017 “Phantom Limb.” Apogee Issue 9: 70-75