Rate My Professor Morgan Read-Davidson

Morgan Read-Davidson is an Associate Professor of Instructional Faculty in the English Department at Chapman University, within the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. He serves as Director of Undergraduate Writing Programs, overseeing the BFA in Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Composition Studies, and Iluminación Writing Program. A Chapman University alumnus, he earned his B.F.A. in Film Production, M.A. in English in 2007, and M.F.A. in Creative Writing in 2007 from the institution. His career trajectory includes progression to faculty leadership roles, culminating in his promotion to Instructional Associate Professor in 2025.

Read-Davidson's primary areas of research and teaching encompass rhetoric and composition, community writing and writing programs, posthuman rhetorics, and ludonarratology—the intersection of gameplay and narrative. In creative writing, he has developed feature and short screenplays, a television pilot, short stories in fiction and nonfiction, and two novels of historical fiction. He received the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences in 2005. Key publications include the article “Trigger Warnings and a Pedagogy of Trust” in the FEN Blog of Composition Studies Journal (March 27, 2023); “Possibility and Play: Ludonarratology as Liberating Praxis” in The Proceedings of the Annual Computers and Writing Conference (2019); “Illuminating Collaboration: Bringing the Writing Program to the Community” in Writing Program and Writing Center Collaborations (2017); “Ditch Salmon” in Flyway Journal (Winter 2023); “Peaking” in Citric Acid (Issue 6, Spring 2023); “The Last Battle of the Great White” in Jelly Bucket (Issue 11, August 2021); “Raven Child” in Alt Hist (Issue 10, February 2017); "Business Writing and Social Media: Making Rhetorical Choices That Build Relationships" in Contexts & Choices: A Guide to Practical Writing (2012); and "Dear God" in Pique Magazine (2010). He contributed to the edited volume Trigger Warnings: Teaching Through Trauma (2026).