Deniz Perin-Coombs, MFA

Senior Teaching Professor, English

• MFA, San Diego State University, Creative Writing
  
• BA, University of Washington, English
  
• BA, University of Washington, French

Deniz Perin-Coombs served as a Lecturer in the English Department from 2007-2016, and again since Fall 2018. From 2016 to 2018, she worked at the International Rescue Committee, where she taught Vocational ESL to newly arrived refugees, and Citizenship courses to refugees preparing for their naturalization tests. At USD, she teaches Creative Writing, Middle Eastern Literature, Poetry, and Composition & Literature, and College Writing. Her interests lie primarily in Creative Writing, and in modern and contemporary poetry and literature worldwide, but especially in the United States and Middle East. Her wish is to encourage students to respond to literature on many levels: analytically, personally, and creatively. She chooses books and assigns coursework that she hopes will remind students (if reminding is necessary) how enjoyable literature can be, and that literature is, in fact, viscerally connected to our lives.

Scholarly Work

Office Hours

• FYW 150
• ENGL 222
• INST 250
• ENGL 301