I am a writing teacher, poet, and pop culture critic. On campus, I am the faculty
advisor for Gesture, ODU's literary magazine, and am always seeking students who are
interested in submitting work for publication, or organizers and editors to join the
staff. I teach first-year writing and creative writing courses. Using writing as a
means of creative and personal expression is central to any class you'll take with
me: I am interested in voice and helping students find their voices as tools of expression,
even in scholarly genres of academic writing. As an Expressivist scholar, my research
interests center on the intersection of composition pedagogies and creative writing
instructional practices. I am also interested in reflection, multimodal composition,
and currently working on an assessment project for first-year writing here at Ohio
Dominican. During former lives in Detroit and San Francisco, I have done youth arts
education programs, have been a barista and a chef, and even once ran twenty miles
for fun. At home, I have two miniature dachshunds named Desi & Poppy, and a beautiful
son, Benjamin. I regularly publish a pop culture newsletter and podcast you can follow
here: https://tonyisapoet.substack.com/
Creative
"All I Know of Coal", poem, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, 2022
"Aria for Poland Woods", poem, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, 2022
Cincinnati Style Chili, poem, [autofocus], 2022
Billy Joel's The Stranger, creative non-fiction, Sixtyeight2ohfive: A Playlist Project,
2020
"Flight Path", poem, As It Out To Be Magazine, 2025
Scholarly
DeGenaro, Anthony and Lena Hakim. “Storytelling in First-Year Writing.” Open Words:
Access and English Studies, 15.1 (2023): 95-117.
DeGenaro, Anthony. "Supporting Audience Awareness in Multimodal Text Creation," Journal
of Response to Writing, 9.2 (2023): 127-139.
Book Review of: G. Mazzoni, On Modern Poetry, translated by Zakiya Hanafi (Belknap
Press, 2022) in Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature: 47.1.
Book Review of: Y. Cleary, The Profession and Practice of Technical Communication
(New York: Routledge, 2022) in Communication Design Quarterly 11.1 (2022): 53 – 54.
DeGenaro, Anthony, William DeGenaro and Jerrice Donelson. “It’s Essentially Writers
Talking about Writing”: The Roles of Reflection in a Co-Curricular Writing Studio
Course.” Open Words: Access and English Studies, 11.1 (2018) 82 – 101.
