David Blackmore, Ph.D.
ACADEMIC AREAS OF INTEREST
Writing pedagogy, creative nonfiction, linguistics, Appalachian literature, Latin American and Latine studies, queer studies.
BIOGRAPHY
David Blackmore is an associate professor of English and writing coordinator at Chatham University. He teaches pedagogy courses in the MFA-CW program and mentors graduate instructors in Chatham’s first-year writing program and in grant-funded collaborations with Pittsburgh’s Environmental Charter School. At the undergraduate level, he teaches courses in literature, linguistics, writing, and Latine studies. Dr. Blackmore writes creative nonfiction and is currently enrolled as a student in the Chatham MFA-CW program.
EDUCATION
- MFA in Creative Writing, Chatham University (in progress)
- PhD in English, University of California, Los Angeles
- MA in English, University of California, Los Angeles
- AB in English, Harvard University
SELECTED CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- “Lake Perfidy, 1976.” Bridge Literary Arts Journal, Fall 2025.
- “Skills Test.” Wayfarer Magazine, 9 July 2025.
- “Sunshine Family Dolls.” Allium, a Journal of Poetry & Prose, Spring 2024, pp. 136-138.
- “Smoky City.” Northern Appalachia Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2024, pp. 134-144.
- “The Village of Sergeant.” The Fourth River, Issue 0.14, Fall 2023.
- “Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania.” Rockvale Review, Issue 10, May 2023.
- “Leek Weekend.” Watershed Journal, Issue 20, May 2023 (online exclusive).
- “Allegheny Brush Heap.” Wordrunner eChapbooks, No. 48, April 2023, pp. 13-23.
SELECTED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
- “Residues and Regeneration in Northern Appalachia.” Forthcoming in Wide Branches, Deep Roots: How Appalachian Wisdom Can Help Us All in the Fight for a Sustainable Future, edited by Amanda Hayes and Jessica Jones. West Virginia UP, 2026.
- “Wild Times Ending Badly: Gasparino Damata’s Os solteirões and the Censorship of Queer Fiction under the Brazilian Military Regime.” Chasqui: Revista de literatura latinoamericana, vol. 50, no. 1, May 2021, pp. 43-59,
- “Global Approaches to the HEL Course: An International Perspective.” Teaching the History of the English Language, edited by Colette Moore and Chris Palmer, Modern Language Association, 2019, pp. 163-169,
- “Engaging Complexities: Intersectional Analysis in the Classroom.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, vol. 9, no. 2, 1998, pp. 175-182,
- “’In New York It’d Mean I Was a…’: Masculinity Anxiety and Period Discourses of Sexuality in The Sun Also Rises.” The Hemingway Review, vol. 18, no.1, 1998, pp. 49-67,
- “’Something…Too Preposterous and Complex to Be Recognized or Considered’: Same-Sex Desire and Race in Infants of the Spring.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 80, no. 4, 1997, pp. 601-611,
- “’That Unreasonable Restless Feeling’: The Homosexual Subtexts of Nella Larsen’s Passing.” African American Review, vol. 26, no. 3, 1992, pp. 475-484.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND READINGS
- “Building Canon and Community in Northern Appalachian Literature through an MFA Program.” Presentation at the annual conference of the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia (WANA). Wheeling, WV, September 2025.
- Series organizer, Appalachian Writer Series, Chatham University, Pittsburgh, PA, beginning Spring 2025.
- “Writing about Place in Northern Appalachia.” Workshop at the annual conference of the Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia (WCoNA), Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA, March 2024.
- Invited reading (with Jolene McIlwain), Duquesne University Coffee House Series, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2023.
- “Latino/a/x/e: Language and Gender in Latin America and the Diaspora.” Invited Visiting Scholar workshop. Women’s Institute, Chatham University, March 2023.
- “Censorship of Queer Literature under the Brazilian Military Regime.” Invited Visiting Scholar lecture. Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, September 2022.
- “Fazendo conexões: Teaching Brazilian Immigrant Literature at a U.S. Hispanic-Serving Institution.” Paper presented at the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) Congress, Virtual, March 2022.
- “Latinx Student Success: A Panel Discussion.” Organizer and moderator, Virtual, October 2021.
- “’Latinxs and Language in the U.S.’: Engaging Students in Critical Analysis of Language Ideologies at a U.S. Hispanic-Serving Institution.” Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Conference, Virtual, May 2021.
- “What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Hispanic-Serving Institution’?” Keynote speech for opening ceremony for Council on Hispanic Affairs’ Hispanic Heritage Month programming, Jersey City, NJ, September 2019.
- “Code-Switching for College Success: African American English in the Urban Classroom.” Workshop at Annual Conference of the International Society for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (ISETL), Denver, CO, October 2014.
- “Breaking the Cycle: Helping Students Think Critically About Their Own Education.” Workshop at Lilly-East Annual Conference on College and University Teaching, Bethesda, MD, June 2012.
- “’Why Didn’t We Read Stuff Like This in High School?’: Taking the Lessons of Student Teacher Supervision into the U.S. Literature Survey Classroom.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL, April 2003.