Edward Fristrom, PhD
Co-Director, Certificate Program in Medical Humanities
Associate Teaching Professor of English
Department of English and Philosophy
Education:
- PhD, Writing, Teaching and Criticism with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition, State University of New York at Albany
- MA, Creative Writing emphasis in Fiction, University of California
- BA, English, University of Puget Sound
Research Interests:
- Writing Studies
- Medical Memoir
- Environmental Literature and Rhetoric
Bio:
I work in the writing program and am co-director of the medical humanities certificate program. Recently my interests have turned to writing associated with the gas industry's impact on Northern Pennsylvania where my extended family owns a farm. I've been interested not only in the rhetoric associated with the debate over fracking but in the role of personal narrative, poetry, and fiction. Outside the academy, I spend much of my time with music and photography.