teaching
I combine creative practice with academic research to arrive at ways of knowing that are holistic, mutable, and in service of a more equitable future. I believe that knowledge is iterative, a process-based activity gained through writing and living.
I have taught courses in English, Composition and Rhetoric, and Creative Writing at McGill University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Bishop’s University.
I have also designed week-long intensive hybrid creative writing workshop/classes through the Juniper Institute for Young Writers, an introduction to contemporary poetry workshop for high school students through the Amherst Poetry Festival, and one-day workshops through the Quebec Writers’ Federation Writers-in-CEGEPs Program. In 2023, I was a Poetry Mentor through the QWF’s Mentorship Program.
“I want everyone to know that they already possess the tools they need to read and appreciate poetry. They’re doing it right, even and especially if they don’t know what they’re doing. Poetry anticipates that uncertainty.”
– From an interview in The Graphic
Jay Ritchie 