UMass journalism

Part time Faculty

Connie D. Griffin Magazine writing Lecturer Ph.D.  University of Massachusetts, Amherst 108 Bartlett Hall, 413-545-1376 cgriffin@comcol.umass.edu

Connie Griffin earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Tulsa (1981), a master's degree from Boston College (1984), and a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1998). She teaches courses in narrative nonfiction, literary and investigative journalism, feature and magazine writing, memoir and personal reportage, media studies, and literary and cultural studies. She has taught in Boston College's Creative Writing Program, Curry College's Blue Hills Writing Institute, and the National Writers Union annual conference, WriteAngles. As chair of various panels and roundtables at the Northeast Modern Language Association, she worked to bring creative writers, journalists, and critics into dialogue with one another. She served on the editorial board of Woman of Power Magazine (Cambridge, MA) and as editor for the magazine's International Feminism issue (Summer 1987). She has written reviews for Sojourner Newspaper and The Lesbian Review of Books. As Broadcast Relations Director for the University of Tulsa, she produced and hosted University FOCUS, a weekly educational television program, oversaw public relations, and served as broadcast media liaison. Her features and profiles have appeared in Tulsa Magazine, and the University of Tulsa Magazine. Her publications have appeared in Literature and the Writer (Rodopi Press, 2004), Women as Narrators, for Style (Summer 2001), He Said, She Says: An RSVP to the Male Text (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001), and in Concerns (Modern Language Association, 1999). Her book in progress, To Tell the Truth: Practice and Craft in Narrative Nonfiction, is currently under review. She teaches magazine writing.