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Margaret Lazarus Dean is the Lindsay Young Professor in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, within the College of Arts and Sciences. She specializes in contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and TV writing, with research foci on gender studies, spaceflight literature, and disaster narratives. Her teaching includes courses in fiction writing, creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and a special topics course on Literature of Disaster.
- Education: M.F.A. from University of Michigan, B.A. from Wellesley College
Her research explores intersections between creative writing pedagogy and cultural narratives of space exploration and disaster, informed by her collaborations with NASA and interdisciplinary approaches. Recent publications span books and essays in Popular Mechanics, New Yorker, and New York Times, analyzing spaceflight’s cultural impact and storytelling under extreme conditions.
- Key Scientific Awards:
- Graywolf Nonfiction Prize
- National Endowment for the Arts Award
- MacDowell Fellow (2024)
- Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship (2015)
She has received multiple mentorship awards, including the Graduate Student in English Outstanding Mentorship Outside the Classroom Award and University of Tennessee Professional Promise in Research and Creative Achievement Award (2017). Her work has been adapted for film and translated into 23 languages.
