Teresa Hamilton

Professional Bio

Teresa Hamilton is an associate teaching professor who teaches first-year honors and advanced writing courses.

Her teaching draws on narrative theory to help students develop rhetorical awareness and write for audiences beyond the classroom. She is particularly interested in how students use stories to make meaning and examine the systems and institutions that shape civic identity and belonging.

Teresa explores the relationship between storytelling and public life. Her creative and scholarly work is grounded in questions of place and memory, particularly within Black Southern experience. She writes about the American South and how its landscapes, small towns, family histories and institutions shape how people understand where they belong. Her background in journalism also informs her commitment to ethical storytelling and careful attention to questions of power and voice.

Her fiction and nonfiction have been published and performed in literary and public humanities venues. Her short story “Public Apology” appeared in The Killens Review of Arts and Letters, and she has performed work and led workshops at State of the Story, Storyburgh and Solos in Solidarity. She also presents at academic conferences and collaborates on projects that connect her teaching and research with community engagement. When she’s not teaching students, she works with researchers and organizations to turn complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives.