Tanya Perkins, MA, MFA

Publications: Scholarly/Craft

  • Perkins, T. (Accepted). Overlaps, Gaps and Maps: Nancy Drew’s Formula for Fiction isn’t just for Ghosts, in A. Clapp-Itnyre’s (Ed.) One Hundred Years of Nancy Drew, Mississippi University Press.
  • Perkins, T.  (2026). Look, then Look Again: A Case Study in Content Analysis for Creative Writing Researchers, in J. Edelson’s & B. Ristow‘s (Eds.) Creative Writing Research: Methods, Methodologies, Practices. Peter Lang Publishing.
  • Perkins, T., Blewett, K., & Evans, M. T. (2023). Ready, Set, Match: Helping Students Feel Like They Matter through Virtual Events. Journal of Teaching and Learning With Technology, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.14434/jotlt.v12i1.36330
  • Perkins, T. (2022). Reading Together: Engaging Undergraduate Writers Through an Online Book Club. KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies, 6(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.18357/kula.238  
  • Perkins, T. (2022, Feb.). In the Classroom: A teaching guide for Clifford Thompson’s “Just Enough Light to See By: Conveying Meaning in Nonfiction Writing.” The Writer’s Chronicle, Assoc. of Writers and Writing Programs. 56-60.
  • Perkins, T. & Marling, L. (2021). Public Promises, Hazy Vision: What Program Learning Outcomes tell us about Creative Writing as a Teaching Subject. Journal of Creative Writing Studies, 6(1), Article 14. 1-16.   
  • Perkins, T. (2021, April). In the Classroom: A Teaching Guide for Debra Spark’s “That’s Interesting!” The Writer’s Chronicle, Assoc. of Writers and Writing Programs. 46-49.
  • Perkins, T. & Tolbert, J. (2021). Yours, Mine, Ours: Collaboration and Differentiated Learning in the Creative Writing Classroom. In A. Ash’s & M. Clark’s (Eds.) Imaginative Teaching through Creative Writing: A Guide for Secondary Classrooms (pp. 195-204). Bloomsbury Academic Press. 
  • Perkins, T. (2021, Feb.). Collaboration as a Springboard for Individual Creativity. Teaching for Student Success: An Evidence-Based Approach, 2e. Module 8: Collaborative Learning. Indiana University.
  • Perkins, T. (2019). Strange(r) Places: Creative Collaboration in Real and Virtual Spaces. Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 8(1), 99-107.  
  • Perkins, T. (2018). Robbed Water, Raped Earth: Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung as Nature Writing. [Special issue]. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 77, 163-173.  
  • Perkins, T. (2017, Oct.). Up Front Characterization: Using the First Paragraphs to Establish Character. Fiction Southeast. https://fictionsoutheast.com.
  • Harris, S., Perkins, T. & Blankenship, M. (2017). Embedding Success: Supplemental Assistance in Online Writing Instruction. In R. Alexander’s (Ed.) Best Practices in Online Teaching and Learning across Academic Disciplines (pp. 25-38). George Mason University Press.
  • Perkins, T. (2016). Service Learning in the Professional Writing Classroom: Marilyn Cooper’s “Ecology of Writing” in Action. In M. G. Hickey’s (Ed.) Reflecting on Service-learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives (pp. 95-104). Lexington Books.