Megan Volpert

About Megan Volpert

Megan Volpert\'s purpose is to give good guidance. She creates sacred spaces where charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent can thrive. Whether on the page or the stage, from home or from an office, she is an award-winning interdisciplinary thinker whose interrogations of popular culture have served millions of ideas to thousands of interested parties for over twenty years.She is author or editor of over a dozen books on popular culture, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists and an American Library Association honoree. Her newest work is Why Alanis Morissette Matters (University of Texas Press, 2025) and she won Georgia Author of the Year for Boss Broad (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). She writes for PopMatters and Salon, and has edited anthologies of philosophical essays on the music of Tom Petty and the television series RuPaul’s Drag Race.Her gigs as an educator include Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University, the MFA Writing program at Reinhardt University, and a Fellowship at the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought. As a healer, Volpert\'s integrative medicine practices include tarot, reiki, and scent journeying. You may also like to know that she is a disabled and gender non-conforming queer icon who sometimes uses a cane and mostly prefers to sit down. It does not impede her legendary capacity for kicking ass.

Experience

1. Adjunct Professor

   Reinhardt University

   May 2023 — Present · Waleska, GA, US

   Taught graduate-level Creative Writing courses in Etowah Valley MFA program, including: Creative Writing Workshop, Reading Place, Reading Story, Reading Dialogue, Capstone, Critical Thesis, and Creative Thesis.• Built curriculum for several multi-genre core courses, including one brand new approach to the program Capstone.• Mentored graduate students on sustainability of their career pathways.• Maintained a high level of collaboration with colleagues in the English department and MFA program to ensure calibration across the curriculum and pathways for student success.• Creatively adapted asynchronous virtual learning systems to rise to remote work challenges.

Education

• Louisiana State University

  Master of Fine Arts - MFA

  2003 — 2006

• Illinois State University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

  2001 — 2003