Rate My Professor Jacob White

Jacob White serves as Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Writing in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College. He earned his Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston in 2008, an M.A. in English and Creative Writing from SUNY Binghamton in 2003, and a B.A. in English from the College of Charleston in 1999. His academic concentrations encompass fiction writing, personal essay, and creative nonfiction, reflecting his expertise in these genres within the department's Bachelor of Arts program in Writing, which offers concentrations in creative writing, nonfiction, feature writing, and professional writing.

White is the author of the story collection Being Dead in South Carolina, published by Leapfrog Press in 2013. His fiction and essays have appeared in distinguished literary journals including The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, The Literary Review, Shenandoah, Cimarron Review, Salt Hill, New Orleans Review, Modern Language Studies, Juked, Hobart Online, and The Sewanee Review. He received the Andrew Lytle Prize from The Sewanee Review and garnered honorable mentions in Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize anthologies. White also holds the Donald Barthelme Memorial Fellowship in Fiction from the University of Houston and the Father William Ralston Fellowship from The Sewanee Writers' Conference. From 2011 to 2013, he co-edited Green Mountains Review. At Ithaca College, he co-directs the New Voices Festival and has delivered public presentations, such as 'Improvising Narrative for Our Anti-Narrative Lives' for the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society.