Micah Savaglio

Micah Savaglio is an English doctoral candidate at Temple University, where he recently served as a Graduate Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Temple and as a Graduate Assistant to the First Year Writing Program. His teaching and research interests include writing studies, disability studies, multimodality, and creative writing. Micah’s recent opinion piece published on the National Council of Teachers of English blog pulls from his doctoral research and addresses issues of access at Temple. An article from his dissertation was recently published in the Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability. In addition to teaching first-year writing and popular fiction classes at Temple, Micah has taught undergraduate writing courses at Long Island University, Touro College, and City University of New York. Micah holds a BA in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MFA in creative writing from Long Island University Brooklyn, where he co-founded the small poetry press Overpass Books.  

Contact: micah.savaglio@temple.edu 

Featured Work:

“What COVID-19 Has Taught Us about Access to Equitable Education” in the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Blog.
“Addressing Mental Disability in the Postsecondary Classroom via Faculty Development Partnership.” Written with Aaron Spector. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability 34 (Spring 2021): 91-99. 

Featured Overpass Books:  

Count by Melody Wright
On the Western Front by Lewis Warsh
Empty Set by Anne Waldman and Alexis Myre
Sure Shot by Anselm Berrigan
The Invisible Ray by Steve Dalachinsky

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