Dr. Eric J PitmanThey/Them Lecturer, English & Creative Writing Contact 1310 Ben Graves DriveMorton HallRoom 276Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map eric.pitman@uah.edu Biography Eric Pitman completed both their Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Creative Writing at Illinois State University’s English Studies Program and worked as a graduate teaching assistant, instructing various composition courses, English Honors, LGBTQ+ Literature, Poetry, Fiction, and Introduction to Creative Writing. Additionally, they earned a graduate studies certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies, and this forthcoming Spring they will teach a Special Topics Creative Writing course in science fiction. Their work has been published in Last Leaves Mag and is forthcoming from Sweet Tooth, Issue #2: “Body Politic.” When not teaching, Eric enjoys going on hikes, exploring new coffee shops, pizza, and reading or writing fantasy. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Prose and poetry experiments that highlight the daily struggles in queer life for non-binary folks navigating psychic dysphoria, generational trauma, and chronic illness. Queer literatures—sci-fi and fantasy in particular— that bear themes of environmental collapse, resistances to commodification, and surreal landscapes that blend queer ecologies with memory and notions of found-family. Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., Creative Writing, Illinois State University, 2022 M.S., Creative Writing, Illinois State University, 2016 Women's and Gender Studies Graduate Certificate, Illinois State University, 2016 B.A., Creative Writing, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2014 Expertise Gender Studies Non-Binary Identities Queer Theory LGBTQ Literatures Creative Non-Fiction Fiction Poetry Hybrid Writing Science Fiction Fantasy Recent Publications “We’re Storage Bins and They Don’t Know Where to Put Us,” Sweet Tooth Magazine, Issue #2, “Body Politics,” (forthcoming). “Hermeneutics of Despair,” “It Arrives,” & “When the Blaze Comes Again,” Last Leaves Magazine, Issue #3, Fall 2021.
