Dr. Alison Mandaville joined the English faculty at Fresno State in 2013. She specializes
in Writing Studies, Comics and Graphic Literature, Translation, and American literature
in a global context. She received the Provost's Award for Promising New Faculty (2017).
In 2007-2008, Dr. Mandaville served as a Fulbright Scholar in Azerbaijan and in 2010
received a follow-up Fulbright award to offer creative writing workshops to women
in Baku and conduct research on the literary environment in the Caucasus. In 2011,
she received a writing residency at Hypatia-in-the Woods to work on a poetry manuscript. She was a writer in residence at Hedgebrook in 2016
for her work on translation and has received two UNESCO grants to translate and edit
collections of Azerbaijani women’s poetry. Before returning to graduate school, Dr.
Mandaville taught in the Oakland, California public school system for seven years.
She is excited to be back in California working with pre-service English Teachers
in the Central Valley.
