Christopher Higgs

Christopher Higgs is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), teaching courses including Narrative Writing, New Forms Horror, Theories of Fiction, and a Seminar in Narrative Writing.

His educational background includes:

• Ph.D. in Post-1900 American Literature & Culture, Florida State University, 2014
• M.F.A. in Fiction Writing, The Ohio State University, 2009
• M.A. in English, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 2006
• B.A. in Film Production & Screenwriting, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 2002

His research centers on avant-garde literary history, experimental cross-disciplinary practices, and narrative innovation, with explicit focus on modernism, postmodernism, and critical theory. His creative-scholarly output features the constraint-based memoir As I Stand Living, novels The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney and ONE (co-authored with Blake Butler and Vanessa Place), and prose chapbooks like Becoming Monster. Shorter works appear in AGNI, The Paris Review, and BOMB, consistently prioritizing genre-blurring experimentation.