Nellie Haack, Assistant Professor of English
Biography
Helena “Nellie” Haack received her MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop in May 2006. Her poems and translations have appeared in The Poet’s Collective, The Central Review, eXchanges, Moist Towelette, and Shampoo. At Cedarville, she is the advisor for The Icarus Collective, Cedarville’s poetry club, and she teaches Poetry Workshop, Advanced Poetry Workshop, British Literature, Introduction to Literature, and Freshman Composition. She has been teaching at Cedarville since 2006.
Contact Information
- via e-mail
- phone: 937.766.7562
- office: Tyler Digital Comm Center 123
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Contact Information
Email: hhaack@cedarville.edu
Phone: 937.766.7562
Office: Tyler 123
Interests
- Experimental Writing
- Abolitionism
- Refugees
- New Monasticism
- Traveling—particularly by train
- “Other” Cooking & Baking
- Archaeology
- Art History/Outsider Art/Art Brut
- Surrealism: Insanity vs. the Mad State
- Lateral Logic Puzzles
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- The Criterion Collection (Films)
Education
- University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
M.F.A., Creative Writing with emphasis in poetry
August 2004-May 2006 - Central Michigan University
M.A. courses, English Literature with emphasis in creative writing
August 2002-May 2004 - Central Michigan University
B.S., double major in Cultural Anthropology and English Literature
January 2000-May 2002 - Montcalm Community College
August 1998-December 1999