Rate My Professor Paul Gibbons

With a B.A. and B.M. in English and Music Theory and Composition from Arizona State University in 1994, and an M.F.A. in English/Creative Writing with an emphasis in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1998, Gibbons brings a rich academic background to his teaching and research. His scholarly interests center on creative writing pedagogy, hybrid writing forms, improvisation in writing, poetry, multilingual writing, and translingualism. He focuses on implementing creative writing pedagogies, developing strategies for teaching multilingual first-year writers, and synthesizing disciplinary and interdisciplinary writing approaches. A published poet and member of the working band G Street Revolution, Gibbons emphasizes curricula that employ metaphor and synthesis in cross-disciplinary contexts. His current research explores multilingual writing for first-year students and designing introductory creative writing courses as resources for student endeavors beyond the creative writing classroom. His areas of expertise include creative writing, multilingual first-year writing, creativity studies, and music composition. Additionally, he engages with the Merced LitFest, fostering literary community involvement.