Jason Courtmanche

JASON COURTMANCHE earned his MA in rhetoric and composition from Humboldt State University and subsequently taught high school English for twelve years prior to earning his PhD at the University of Connecticut in 2006, where he is currently the director of the Connecticut Writing Project and a lecturer in English. His work has appeared in What Is “College-Level Writing, Volume 2, California Quarterly; Re: Verse, Kimera, Rockhurst Review, The Leaflet, UConn Magazine, The Hartford Courant, and CT News Junkie. Forthcoming publications include chapters in Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom (2016), and Writing Teachers Teaching Reading (2016). He was awarded a fellowship from Teachers For a New Era in 2011, a University Teaching Scholar award from the Institute for Teaching and Learning in 2012, and an award for Excellence in the Promotion of Literacy on behalf of the Connecticut Writing Project from the New England Reading Association in 2013. Since 2014, Courtmanche has served as the president of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society and is the author of How Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Narratives Are Shaped By Sin (2008). http://jasoncourtmanche.blogspot.com.