Kat Gonso

About Kat Gonso

I\'m a Boston-based writer and educator with a diverse teaching background, including composition, literature, and creative writing courses. I am a professor of the practice in English at Boston College\'s Messina College. I also teach classes for Emerson College\'s MLA program. I have held several administrative roles, including Director of First-Year Writing and Director of the Writing Center at Northeastern University. In 2024, I was honored with the Northeastern University College of Social Sciences and Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award. My fiction has been widely published and has won many awards.My teaching is dedicated to community-building and inclusion, focusing on first-generation college students and the LGBTQIA+ community. In 2021, I received a Faculty Innovations Grant in Diversity and Academic Excellence for the project “Creating and Curating Knowledge: First-Generation Low-Income Student Voice and the Experiential Liberal Arts.” This grant enabled my collaborator, Prof. Caitlin Thornbrugh, and I to co-found First and Foremost, a student-run literary magazine dedicated to amplifying the voices of first-generation students. My teaching is experiential and global. I have taught service-learning courses connected with Boston-based initiatives, including The Black Umbrella Project and the Hyde Park Social Justice Coalition. In 2021, I was named a Faculty Fellow for the study abroad program Food and Culture in Vietnam and Cambodia. I am grateful to be a part of the Messina community, where I engage in the work I love: writing, teaching, and co-creating knowledge with students.

Experience

1. Professor of the Practice, English

   Boston College

   Jul 2024 — Present

   Professor of the Practice, Messina College

Education

• Emerson College

  Master of Fine Arts

  2006 — 2009

• Baldwin Wallace University

  BA, Literature

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Higher Education
• Esl
• Curriculum Development
• Literature
• Tutoring
• Microsoft Office
• Public Speaking
• Teaching Writing
• Editing
• Books
• Teaching English as a Second Language
• Copy Editing
• Academic Writing
• Proofreading
• Social Media
• Curriculum Design
• Blogging
• Research
• Teaching
• Writing
• Creative Writing