Dyan Neary
Assistant Professor
Main Hall 523
DNeary@wcupa.edu
Education
- PhD in Creative Writing, Nonfiction, Florida State University
- MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction, Florida State University
- BA in Journalism, New York University
Interests
- Literary Journalism
- Creative Nonfiction
- Investigative Reporting
- Prisons and Mass Incarceration
- Prison Education and Community Literacy
- Environmental and Public Health
- Documentary Film
- Composition Studies
Selected Publications
Long-Form Journalism
- "What Happened to Maya?" New York Magazine, October 2022
- “The Marketing of Baby Bipolar,” Writer’s Digest, Fall 2017
- “We Need To Talk About Frankie,” New York Magazine, April 2017
- “The Drug War,” Elle, November 2012
- “How Big Pharma Shapes What Doctors Tell Pregnant Women,” Type Investigations, November 2012
- “Toxic Inheritance: An Agent Orange Legacy,” Shoeleather, April 2011
Creative Nonfiction
- “David Graeber: 1961-2020,” The New York Review of Books, September 2020
- “The Gladiator,” Roar Magazine, September 2020
- “Reviving A Revolutionary,” NPR All Things Considered, July 2019
- “The Trash Pickers,” NPR All Things Considered, May 2019
- “A Broken Universe,” NPR All Things Considered, April 2019
- “The Devil’s Son-in-Law,” NPR All Things Considered, June 2018
- “A Cheap Offer,” NPR All Things Considered, May 2018
- “Mourning Michael Shenker,” The New York Times, October 2010
Courses Taught
- JRN 200: Intro to Journalism
- JRN 212: Digital Journalism
- JRN 225: Newswriting
- JRN 305: Intro to Documentary Journalism
- JRN 335: News Media Ethics
- JRN 399: Longform Magazine Reporting
- WRT 120: Effective Writing
- WRT 200: Critical Writing