Jon Udelson
Associate Professor of English, Director of Writing, and Honors Program Co-Director
- Gregory 112
- judelson@su.edu
Preferred Pronouns:
he/him
Educational History:
B.A., Individualized Study, New York University; M.F.A., Creative Writing, The City College of New York; Ph.D., University of Louisville, Rhetoric & Composition
Fields of Expertise:
Rhetoric & Composition:
- Literate Development
- Disciplinarity
- Style
- Composition Pedagogy
- Creative Writing Studies
- Qualitative Methods
Creative Writing:
- Short fiction
- Linked Collections
- Comics
Professional Highlights:
BOOKS:
Udelson, Jon and Ben Ristow, eds. Seeking Our Places: Innovations in Creative Writing Studies Research, Methodologies, and Practices. Peter Lang. Forthcoming 2026.
ARTICLES:
Udelson, Jon. “Toward a Pedagogy of Intentionality.” New Writing: The International Journal for the
Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, vol. 19, iss. 2. 2022.
Udelson, Jon. “Bad Grades, Making Bank, and Hating Piano: The Divergent Trajectories of Two
Creative Writers’ Semiotic Becomings.” Journal of Creative Writing Studies, vol. 6, iss. 1. 2021.
Alvarez, Sara P., Michael Baumann, Michelle Day, Khirsten L. Echols, Layne M.P. Gordon,
Ashanka Kumari, Laura Sceniak Matravers, Jessica Newman, Amy McCleese Nichols, Caitlin E. Ray, Jon Udelson, Rick Wysocki, and Danielle Nicole DeVoss. “On Multimodal Composing.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 21, no. 2, http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/21.2/praxis/devoss-et-al/index.html.
CHAPTERS:
Udelson, Jon. “Getting Political with Craft.” The Creative Writing Workshop in the 21st Century: Practical Strategies for a Modern Era, edited by Adrian Markle, Marshall Moore, and Sam Meekings. Bloomsbury Academic. Forthcoming 2026.
Udelson, Jon. “The Place of Creative Writing in Composition Classrooms.” Advancing Creative Writing Across the Curriculum, edited by Justin Nicholes. Texas Review Press. Forthcoming 2026.
Udelson, Jon. “Toward a Pedagogy of Intentionality.” Stimulation, Intention and Process in Creative
Writing: A Reader, edited by Graeme Harper. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. In Press. (A version of this was published in the journal New Writing in 2022.)
Udelson, Jon. “Point of Departures: Composition and Creative Writing’s Shared Stylistic Values.”
Style and the Future of Composition Studies, edited by Paul Butler, Brian Ray, and Star Medzerian Vanguri. Utah State UP / UP of Colorado. 2020.
Wysocki, Rick, Jon Udelson, Caitlin E. Ray, Jessica Newman, Laura Sceniak Matravers, Ashanka
Kumari, Layne M.P. Gordon, Khirsten L. Echols, Michelle Day, Michael Baumann, Sara P. Alvarez, and Danielle Nicole DeVoss. “On Multimodality: A Multivocal Manifesto.” Bridging the Gap: Multimodality in Theory and Practice, edited by Santosh Khadka and Jennifer Lee. Logan: Utah State UP. 2019.
CREATIVE & OTHER:
Udelson, Jon. “Hand-Me-Downs” in The Red Branch Review. Ed. Noah Soltau. October 2025.
Udelson, Jon. “Carthage” in The Muleskinner Journal. Ed. Gary Campanella. July 2025.
Udelson, Jon. “The High Ground” in Action/Spectacle. Ed. Adam Day. January 2024.
Udelson, Jon. “Out & Elsewhere” in Juked. Ed. Ryan Ridge. January 2019.
Udelson, Jon. “Regarding the Selfie: Excellences & Perfections and the Implications of Pain” in
MASH: A Journal of Media, Arts, and Humanities. Spring 2016,
Udelson, Jon. “Garret” in The Ampersand Review. Ed. Jason Cook. October 2013.
Udelson, Jon. “The Twelfth Remember” in The Baltimore Review yearly anthology. Ed. Barbara
Westwood Diehl. July 2013. 175-186.
Udelson, Jon. “The Twelfth Remember” in The Baltimore Review. Ed. Barbara Westwood Diehl.
Winter 2013.
Udelson, Jon. Arabic Tattoos. Mark Batty Publisher, 2008.
Udelson, Jon. “Origins of a Magazine: The Birth of PEEL.” In PEEL: Art of the Sticker. Mark Batty
Publisher, 2008.
Udelson, Jon. “Eva” in Fiction Magazine. Ed. Mark Mirsky. Volume 20 #2, 2007.
Udelson, Jon. “idiot” in [sic] literary journal. Ed. Veronica Liu. Volume 1, 2006.
REVIEWS:
Udelson, Jon. “Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket.” The Brooklyn Rail. 2025.
Udelson, Jon. “Daniel H. Turtel’s Greetings from Asbury Park.” The Brooklyn Rail. 2022.
Udelson, Jon. “Review of Paul Butler’s The Writer’s Style: A Rhetorical Field Guide.” Composition Forum, 47. Fall 2021.
Personal Highlights:
Married to my lovely wife Hilary. We have a wonderful weirdo of a greyhound named Freeda and a self-possessed cat named Tommy.
Recommended Link(s):
College Composition and Communication
Creative Writing Studies Organization