Katherine Joshi

Katherine Joshi is a Principal Lecturer and currently serves as the Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Program Coordinator for the Department of English. She has taught for the Department of English since 2014 and received an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2014. She previously served as an Assistant Director for the Academic Writing Program from 2017-2019, as well as Editor-in-Chief of Interpolations. She has also worked with UMD's Summer Transitional Program and the Department of Fraternity & Sorority Life. Katherine has experience teaching at other colleges in the DC area, namely Montgomery College and University of Maryland, University College. She previously worked for the National Endowment for the Humanities and Writopia Lab. Prior to coming to Maryland in 2011, Katherine taught English composition at Southeast Missouri State University, where she received an MA in English. She also worked as a freelance journalist for several newspapers in Missouri and Tennessee, most notably writing a six-series feature on Alzheimer's in 2010. Her writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and her fiction has appeared in Raleigh Review, Miracle Monocle, Qu Literary Magazine, and Big Muddy.