Teaching
A special classroom at Wake Forest University where Catanzano teaches her poetry workshop classes. Photo courtesy of Wake Forest.
Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Amy Catanzano is a professor of English in creative writing and the poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Prior to Wake Forest, Catanzano taught at Naropa University in Boulder, Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the University of Iowa in Iowa City. She has been a guest faculty member at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Naropa University's Summer Writing Program, and the North Carolina Writers’ Network.
She has taught a range of courses in creative writing, literature, poetics, and experimental artistic practice. Her teaching focuses on reality and imagination studies, transmedia and cross-genre literary art, science and poetry, language poetry, conceptual writing, political and activist poetry, interdisciplinary collaboration, performance poetics, mythopoetics, visual poetry, sound poetry, investigative poetics, and more.
Through innovative writing exercises, workshops of creative writing, reading and viewing materials, and attendance to events with visiting authors, students develop as authors and readers while examining the aesthetic, theoretical, transpersonal, and cultural implications of working with language in an artistic practice. She has mentored students who have gone on to livelihoods in writing, teaching, art making, and publishing, as well as MFA and PhD programs at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University of Denver, Brooklyn College, University of Notre Dame, Pratt Institute, the European Graduate School, and elsewhere.