Claudia McIsaac

Claudia Monpere McIsaac is a Teaching Professor in the Department of English at Santa Clara University's College of Arts and Sciences. She specializes in Composition and Rhetoric, Creative Writing, and Narrative Forms. Her research explores intersections between creative writing and social justice, with a focus on performance and nonfiction. McIsaac holds an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University (Creative Writing) and a B.A. from UC Berkeley (Theatre Arts).

Her creative work has appeared in prestigious literary journals including The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and Puerto del Sol. She has also contributed essays to anthologies like Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude. McIsaac's awards include the Brutocao Curriculum Innovation Award and a top prize at the Georgetown Review Fiction Contest.

McIsaac's teaching emphasizes narrative forms and the relationship between writing and performance. She has recently completed a short story collection and is working on a novel. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges creative writing with social justice themes, reflecting her commitment to both literary craft and societal engagement.

Key research foci include:

• Creative nonfiction and memoir
• Writing as a tool for social advocacy
• Interplay between theatrical performance and textual narrative

She teaches courses such as Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing and Social Justice, and Advanced Poetry Writing.