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Edward Helfers Senior Professorial Lecturer CAS | Literature

Contact
Edward Helfers
(202) 885-2796
CAS | Literature
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW T51
Battelle-Tompkins
Wed 1-4 PM (by appointment)
Friday 9:45-12:45
Degrees
M.F.A. Columbia University (Fiction)
B.A. Duke University (English, Philosophy)

Favorite Spot on Campus
The Bridge
Bio
Edward Helfers joined the Literature Department in 2015. His courses help students use the tools of rhetoric to engage in debates over ownership—of property, of culture, and of ideas. Research interests include accessibility in architecture, critical and creative writing form, and inclusion in higher education. A fiction writer and occasional essayist, his work has appeared in Puerto Del Sol, DIAGRAM, BOOTH, Web Conjunctions, The Nashville Review, The Rumpus, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.
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Teaching

Fall 2025

  • CORE-106 Complex Problems Seminar: The Art of Theft

  • HNRS-150 AU Honors Exper Learning

  • LIT-107 Creative Writing Across Genres

  • WRT-100 College Writing