Professional Bio

Mark Erwin

Mark Erwin serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor of English, joining the University Park and World Campus faculty in Fall 2022. Before arrival at Penn State, he served in a teaching capacity at several southcentral/central PA colleges and universities since 2006. A previous publication, a newspaper column titled, “Critter Conversations with Trapper Sam O’Keefe,” was nominated for humor writing awards in each year from 2010-13.

Courses taught at Penn State University Park and World Campus:

• English 15 Rhetoric and Composition
• English 50 Intro to Creative Writing
• English 202C Effective Writing: Technical Writing
• English 202D Effective Writing: Business Writing

Courses taught at the Commonwealth Campuses:

• English 04 Basic Writing Skills
• English 15 Rhetoric and Composition

Courses taught elsewhere:

• various First Year Writing courses
• Basic/Developmental Writing
• Introduction to Literature
• Introduction to Culturally Diverse Literature of the United States
• Detective Fiction and Film
• Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy