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Janelle Adsit
Associate Professor
she/her
I teach writing classes at Cal Poly Humboldt, along with courses on environmental and health justice. I also serve as advisor for three minors: in Writing, Literary Publishing, and Arts in Health / Narrative Medicine. I'm interested in the role of the arts in health, wellbeing, and advocacy.
The books I've published in recent years are primarily meant to support the teaching of creative writing. Another book, which was released by Routledge, focuses on mindfulness and contemplative practice, epistemic justice, and the environmental humanities.
I also write poetry. Unremitting Entrance (poetry collection, published in 2015 from Spuyten Duyvil) is a meditation on grief in relation to place and environment.
Off campus, I offer writing workshops for community members in healthcare settings. I offer writing as a tool for processing emotion and reducing stress.
Areas of Interest
Creative Writing; Environmental Humanities; Narrative Medicine; Health Humanities, Arts in Health
- Ph.D. English, State University of New York (SUNY), Albany
- Certificate, Narrative Medicine, University of Toronto
- Certificate, Arts in Health, University of Florida
- M.A. English, Colorado State University
- English 306: Contemporary Texts
- English 311: Creative Writing for Environmental Justice
- English 315: Creative Writing: Fiction
- English 422: Professional Research Pathways
- English 460: Literary Editing and Publishing (Toyon)
- English 461: Professional Concerns in Writing & Editing
- Environmental Studies 470: Climate Justice Leadership (co-taught with Christina Eskridge)
- Environmental Studies 480: Health Justice and Climate Justice (co-taught with Cristian Martinez)
- English 580: Facilitated Writing Community
- English 600: Introduction to Graduate Studies
- English 612: Theories of Rhetoric and Composition
Books
Writing and Health Care (Bloomsbury, 2025).
Epistemic Justice, Mindfulness, and the Environmental Humanities (Routledge, 2021).
Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers, co-authored with Renée Byrd (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft (edited collection, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017).
Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing: Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016).
Unremitting Entrance: Poems (Spuyten Duyvil, 2015).
press yourself against a mirror (Porkbelly, 2015).