Elizabeth (Libba) Hockley, MFA Assistant Professor of General Education

Libba Hockley is Assistant Professor of General Education at Harrisburg University. She has been teaching for over 10 years to a diverse range of students including French high school students, county jail inmates, and liberal arts undergraduates before coming to HU. She is a creative writer, and her pieces have appeared in The Fourth River, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, inTravel Magazine, Coal Hill Review, and Broad! where her poem was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Teaching and Research Interests: academic writing and composition, nature and environmental writing, teaching in alternative spaces, anti-racist pedagogy, gender studies, ecocriticism, creative nonfiction, contemporary poetry, LGBTQIA+ literature, social justice and activism.

Courses taught at HU:

ENGL 105 – College Composition

ENGL 200 – Advanced Composition and Technical Writing

ENGL 310 – Creative Writing

COMM 110 – Speech

GEND 102 – Creative Mind I

GEND 103 – Creative Mind II

GEND 275 – Gender and Society

Education

MFA Creative Writing: Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA

BA English Literature: University of Delaware, Newark, DE