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Bio
Michelle Rene Arch is a writer, scholar, and editor. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at Claremont Graduate University, where she has been named a research fellow for 2022-23 and 2025-26. She will be completing and defending her dissertation on the neurobiology of psychopathy in nineteenth-century fiction in 2026. Michelle is a graduate of Chapman University, where she completed a Master of Arts degree in English and an MFA in Creative Writing and received the Tom Massey Award for Outstanding Dual Degree Student at Chapman's Kugelman Humanities Awards Ceremony. She also holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and English from California State University.
Michelle was an assistant editor for the revised Concise Oxford Companion to America Literature in 2021. Other projects include an extensive portfolio of critical essays, short stories, nonfiction columns, and poems, as well as her debut novel. She has presented her work at numerous conferences around the country, and her creative, nonfiction, and academic writing has been published in print and online. She is the recipient of three awards for fiction writing and will be seeking representation for her novel and dissertation upon completion of her Ph.D.
Michelle is a member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs; Modern Language Association; Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association; Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers; American Literature Association; North American Conference on British Studies; Nineteenth Century Studies Association; and North American Victorian Studies Association.
She can be contacted directly at michelle.arch@cgu.edu.