2003 – Present

Deborah A. Lott considers herself fortunate to teach at Antioch University, Los Angeles, which welcomes innovation and cross-disciplinary thinking.

• Created curricula and teach these upper division literature and writing courses:

The Trauma Memoir: Literary Art from Adversity
Representations of Childhood in Literature
Representations of Adolescence in Literature
Topics in Contemporary Literature: Sexual Politics
Journeys in Creative Nonfiction
Topics in Contemporary Literature: Lolita and Her Literary Sisters

• Lott receives consistently high evaluations from students
• Also conducts independent studies with BA Program students

2010 – Present

Editor and Advisor to Two Hawks Quarterly, the BA program’s digital literary journal.

• Helped to take this student-led journal to the next level by attracting work from known writers from around the world
• Designed and implemented a formal curriculum to teach editorial skills and prepare students for work in
  the publishing industry

AWP

Panel Chair, multiple presentations:

• Child’s Voice in Literature
• Progression by Digression: Multiple Narrative Lines in Creative Nonfiction
• Transference in the Writing Classroom
• Endings for the End Times?