About
Loren is a third-year PhD student in the Joint Program in English and Education. Born in Asunción, Paraguay and raised in Brooklyn, NY, they earned previous graduate degrees in Classics as well as a graduate certificate in writing pedagogy. Their current research focuses on literature and composition/rhetoric (writing studies) in the early to mid-20th-century U.S., with particular interests in pulp literature and noir fiction, the environmental humanities, archives, and empire. They are also completing a graduate certificate in Critical Translation Studies.
Prior to returning to Michigan, Loren worked as a 6th-12th grade creative writing teacher, a writing specialist at the University of Oregon, and in digital accessibility and distance education at Northwestern University; they have published on contingent writing program labor in the Writing Center Journal. At UM, they teach first-year academic writing and literature classes, and they are serving as a Graduate Student Mentor (GSM) in 2026-2027.
Loren is also a poet, literary translator, and fiction writer. Their debut poetry chapbook, Living Fossils, was published in 2026 with Texas Review Press.
