Education
Ph.D. American Literature: Ohio University -- 2006MFA, Poetry: University of Washington -- 1995
Bio
Hayley Mitchell Haugen holds a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She is currently a Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where she teaches courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. Haugen’s poems have appeared internationally in journals such as Chiron Review, Rattle, Slant, Spillway, The Lake, Verse Virtual, and many others. She is the founding editor and director of the non-profit literary journal and small press, Sheila-Na-Gig Inc.
Research Interests
Creative writing -- PoetryDisability and illness in contemporary American literature
Publications
Poetry Collections
What the Grimm Girl Looks Forward To. Finishing Line Press, 2016
Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light. Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2018
The Blue Wife Poems. Kelsay Books, 2022
Critical Research on Disability and Illness -- Book chapters appear in the following anthologies:
The Body in Medical Culture.(Suny Press, 2009);
On the Literary Non-fiction of Nancy Mairs (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011);
Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014);
The Modern Stephen King Canon: Beyond Horror (Lexington Books, 2018);
The Many Lives of It: Essays on the Stephen King Horror Franchise (McFarland, 2020);
The Disfigured Face in American Literature, Film, and Television (Routledge, 2021).
Presentations and Awards
2021 Ohio University Southern Campus Faculty Award for Outstanding Research
2020 Ohio University Regional Higher Education Award for Outstanding Faculty
2019 Ohio University Southern Campus Faculty Award for Outstanding Research
2013 Ohio University Southern Campus Faculty Award for Outstanding Service
2011 Ohio University Southern Campus Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching