The Social Academic with Jennifer van Alstyne | Online Presence for Professors Revising Your Story (Even When It's Sad) with Lena Ziegler, PhD
Trigger warning: Sexual violence
This episode of The Social Academic Podcast features Dr. Lena Ziegler to talk about her new book, A Revisionist History of Loving Men. A thoughtful conversation on what it means to write, revise, (and share) your story.
Book: A Revisionist History of Loving Men (Autofocus Books)by Lena Ziegler, PhD
https://autofocusbooks.com/store/p/revisionist-history
Lena Ziegler holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Kentucky University and a PhD in Rhetoric and Writing Studies from Bowling Green State University where she researched gender, sexuality, and the rhetorics of sexual violence and consent. From 2021-2025 she served as an Assistant Professor of English at Albright College in Pennsylvania where she taught composition and creative writing. She currently serves as an educational and program coordinator for a nonprofit.
From 2017-2023, Lena was the editor/co-founder of the literary and arts journal The Hunger. Her first book, A Revisionist History of Loving Men, was recently published with Autofocus Books. Additionally, she is the author of the fiction chapbook MASH (The A3 Press) and her writing has been published in Indiana Review, Split Lip Magazine, Duende, Dream Pop Press, Miracle Monocle, Literary Orphans, and others. She is the creator and host of the podcast Reading Michael Jackson - a project aimed at exploring the King of Pop through a deep analysis of his written work. She loves music, being cozy, and is an avid fan of all things dark and humorously angsty. She believes in forgiveness, magic, the transformative power of language, and resilience of the human heart.
Lena Ziegler's website https://www.LenaZiegler.com/
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