Michael Arnzen, Ph.D.
Professor of English & Chair of the Humanities Division
University Administrator
Hometown : Greensburg, PA
Joined Seton Hill : 1999
Academic Areas of Interest
Creative writing, scholarship of teaching, horror fiction, horror film, speculative poetry, literary theory, new media, film history, "the uncanny" in the arts, writing.
Personal Areas of Interest
All forms of popular culture and the creative arts...and pizza.
Personal Website : View Site I | View Site II
Biography
Michael Arnzen (Ph.D., U Oregon) is an English professor by day and a horror/suspense writer by night. He holds four Bram Stoker Awards for his often funny, always disturbing fiction. His courses in the English program at Seton Hill run the gamut from expository and creative writing to literary criticism and film history, and he is an active teacher in the first year Seminar in Thinking and Writing. He has mentored novelists and led graduate writing workshops in SHU's unique MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction since 1999. He advised the campus literary magazine, Eye Contact, from 1999-2009.
Dr. Arnzen began serving as Humanities Division Chair in Fall 2009, and is happy to assist with any questions relating to the following academic programs: Communications, Creative Writing, English Literature, History, Modern Languages (Spanish, French), New Media Journalism, Pastoral Ministry, Philosophy, Political Science, Pre-Law, Religious Studies/Theology, Study Abroad, Women's Studies, and Writing Popular Fiction.
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