Cassandra Hirsch

Cassandra Hirsch is an Associate Teaching Professor of English at Drexel University. She holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Rosemont College (2008) and a BA in English from York University (1987). Since 2008, she has taught first-year writing and community-based learning (CBL) courses, including innovative programs in correctional facilities.

Her pedagogy emphasizes voice development, integrity in research writing, and social justice. Between 2014–2019, she taught CBL courses in a prison and a drug addiction/psychiatric rehabilitation center. She co-facilitates the Pennoni Honors College's Prison Reading Project, inviting formerly incarcerated individuals to discuss mass incarceration with students.

Hirsch authored the historical novel Under the Linden Tree (2012) and previously wrote for regional periodicals and a Canadian travel magazine.