Part-time Faculty
B.A. English & Film Studies, The College of William and Mary, 2000
M.F.A. Nonfiction, Columbia University, 2003
Amanda Petrusich has research and teaching interests in music and culture writing, creative nonfiction and the personal essay. She is the author of
It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music (Faber and Faber/Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 2008) and
Pink Moon (Continuum, 2007) an installment in Continuum Books' acclaimed 33 1/3 series. Her music and culture writing has appeared in the
New York Times ,
Spin ,
Pitchfork , the
Oxford American ,
Wire , the
Onion A.V. Club ,
eMusic and elsewhere. She has served as a creative nonfiction writing instructor at the Charlottesville Writing Center.