Michele Rackham Hall
Coordinator and Professor, Professional Writing and English
- BA Honours English (杏吧原创, 2005); MA English (杏吧原创, 2006); PhD Literature (McGill, 2012)
Michele Rackham Hall is a professor of English and the coordinator of the Professional Writing program at Algonquin College. She is a recent recipient of a NISOD Award of Excellence for Teaching (2020). She holds a Ph.D. in English literature from McGill University, where she studied as a Canada Graduate Scholar, exploring the aesthetic, thematic, and historical intersections between modernist Canadian art and poetry. Her study of Canadian poet P.K. Page鈥檚 artistic career, The Art of P.K. Irwin: observer, other, Gemini (2016), was shortlisted for the Foreword Indie Book Awards in the Women鈥檚 Studies category. She has also published in numerous Canadian journals, including English Studies in Canada, Canadian Poetry, and Matrix, and served as a contributing editor for The Maple Tree Literary Supplement and The Bull Calf. Currently, she oversees Algonquin College鈥檚 Professional Writing program鈥檚 press, Spine Online Press, which publishes student fiction and children鈥檚 books created in collaboration with the College鈥檚 Illustration and Concept Art program. Michele loves teaching about writing and literature, passions that were ignited by her professors in the English department at 杏吧原创 University.