Anna Leahy publishes scholarship in several areas, including creative writing pedagogy, literary criticism, and museum studies. Her work on the representations of World War II by aviation museums is co-authored with Douglas Dechow; they blog on aviation, science of the twentieth century, and writing as a couple at Lofty Ambitions. Anna's work on ekphrastic poetry and Natasha Trethewey is co-authored with art historian Debora Rindge.
SAMPLE SCHOLARLY ARTICLES
"Is Women's Poetry Passé?" Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Fall 2008
"'Become What You Must': Trethewey's Poems and Bellocq's Photographs" (with D. Rindge), English Language Notes, Fall 2006
"Not Just the Hangars of World War II: American Aviation Museums and the Role of Memorial" (with D. Dechow), Curator, Fall 2006
"Keep 'Em Flying High: How American Air Museums Create and Foster Themes of the World War II Air War" (with D. Dechow), Bombs Away! edited by W. Rasch and W, Wilms, 2006
PEDAGOGY BOOKS & CONTRIBUTIONS
“Teaching as a Creative Act: Why the Workshop Works in Creative Writing," Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?, edited by Dianne Donnelly, Multilingual Matters, 2010
"Wendy Bishop's Legacy: A Tradition of Mentoring, a Call to Conversation" (co-authored), Stories of Mentoring: Theory and Praxis, edited by Michelle Eble and Lynnee Gailet, Parlor Press, 2008
"Theories of Creativity and Creative Writing Pedagogy" (with M. Cantrell and M. Swander), The Handbook of Creative Writing, edited by Steven Earnshaw, Edinburgh University Press, 2007
"Creativity, Caring and the Easy A," Can It Really Be Taught? edited by K. Ritter and S. Vanderslice, Heinemann, 2007
Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project (edited collection), Multilingual Matters, 2005
"Good Counsel: A Conversation about Poetry Writing, the Imagination, and Teaching (with L. Szporluk), Mid-American Review, forthcoming 30th Anniversary Issue
Undergraduate Creative Writing in the United State: Buying In Isn't selling Out," Teaching Creative Writing, edited by Heather Beck, Palgrave Macmillian, forthcoming
Invited Responses to Thought Questions (Chapter 5), Teaching Creative Writing to Undergraduates, edited by K. Ritter and S. Vanderslice, Fountainhead Press, forthcoming