Marguerite Scott Copses
Senior Instructor and Associate Chair of the Department of English
Dr. Meg Scott Copses earned her Ph.D. in poetry from Florida State University with a dissertation on service learning in community and at-risk environments such as prisons and youth shelters. Her current research promotes experiential learning and embodied activism, fusing the disciplines of rhetorical studies and creative writing. Meg regularly alters the space of the traditional classroom. She challenges her students to explore intuitive connections between movement and idea formation, between observation and analysis, and between creative and critical thinking. Since joining the College in 2007, she has won a University Teaching Award (2020) and served as the First-Year Writing Director (2019-2025). She is currently Associate Chair of the English Department.
Education
Ph.D., Creative Writing and Composition, Florida State University
M.A., Creative Writing, Florida State University
B.A., English and Music, Wake Forest University
Research Interests
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Creative Writing
- Contemporary Poetry
- Experiential Learning
- Embodied Activism
Courses Taught
- ENGL 110 Introduction to Academic Writing
- FYE Movement and Writing
- ENGL 225 Introduction to Writing Studies
- ENGL 220 Introduction to Poetry
- ENGL 305 Advanced Composition
- ENGL 310 Theories of Teaching Writing
- ENGL 324 Writing and Embodiment