Assistant Director of the MFA in Writing Program
Madeleine Mori is a Japanese American writer and editor, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned a BS in Wine and Viticulture from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and an MFA from NYU, where she served as a Poetry Editor of Washington Square Review. Her work has appeared in jubilat, DIAGRAM, the American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, The Common, The Margins, and elsewhere, and has received support from the Community of Writers, NYU’s Provost, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, where she was a 2021 Margins Fellow and guest-edited a special folio on Wine.
Graduate Courses 2025-2026
Master of Fine Arts in Writing
Teaching Good Prose: Pedagogy Craft Class and Internship
Seminar—Fall
WRIT 7890
Prerequisite: completion of at least two semesters in the MFA Writing program; acceptance into the internship conditional upon application
This course will prepare student teachers with a working knowledge of theories, methods, and procedures for teaching functional and academic reading and writing skills to first-year college students. The course has two main components, which include attendance in this pedagogy seminar and a supervised teaching assistantship in a freshman writing class at SUNY Purchase. In the pedagogy seminar, readings and class discussions will explore strategies for designing and teaching lessons that will improve students’ ability to compose analytical college essays; express ideas clearly and effectively in well-developed, focused arguments with relevant and adequate evidence; and use the style and conventions of standard academic prose. Student teachers are supervised by an instructor and are required to attend one session of a freshman writing class per week. Additionally, student teachers are expected to meet with students outside of class for 1-2 hours per week.