Novelist Joseph Cassara and Poet Tonya M. Foster Join Faculty
San Francisco State University has named Joseph Cassara and Tonya M. Foster the George and Judy Marcus Endowed Chairs in the Creative Writing Department. Cassara, who currently teaches in the Department of English at Fresno State University, will join the University this fall as an assistant professor of creative writing. Foster teaches writing and literature at the California College of the Arts in Oakland and will begin teaching at the University as an assistant professor of poetry in fall 2021.
Both faculty will contribute to the literary life of the Bay Area by holding public lectures and readings as well as by spearheading events with visiting authors, says San Francisco State Creative Writing Professor and Department Chair Nona Caspers. The University selected Foster and Cassara partly because of the significant contributions they’ve made to the literatures of the African diaspora and Latinx cultures.
"They will add to the mix of cultural, aesthetic and community perspectives of an innovative, rigorous Creative Writing Department"
- Nona Caspers, Creative Writing Professor and Department Chair
"Their literary work and work as artists who care about education as a practice of freedom - to question, to grieve, to celebrate - will help keep us awake and in motion as a multi-voiced campus and Bay Area community"
- Nona Caspers, Creative Writing Professor and Department Chair
Tonya M. Foster and Joseph Cassara
For More Information, Contact
Amanda Todd
Director of Development
(Creative Arts)
College of Liberal & Creative Arts
Email: amandatodd@sfsu.edu
Phone: (415) 405-3827