Lindsay Sproul

Lindsay Sproul is the Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, where she teaches creative writing and literature with a focus on queer studies, disability, social class, trauma, and colonization. She is the author of We Were Promised Spotlights (Putnam/Penguin Random House), and her short fiction and essays have appeared in Epoch, Glimmer Train, The Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, Witness, Adi Magazine, The Pinch, Hayden's Ferry Review, and elsewhere.

Her work has been supported by fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Gullkistan Center for Creativity in Iceland, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Carter and Marquette Fellowships at Loyola. In addition to her teaching and writing, Sproul serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the New Orleans Review, where she curates special issues and highlights international and diasporic voices.

Classes Taught

• Internship in Editing & Publishing: New Orleans Review
• WAL: Sapphic Literature & Film
• MENA Diaspora: Literature, Film, and Identity
• Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop
• Trauma Writing
• Introduction to Creative Writing

Areas of Expertise

• Queer Studies
• Young Adult Literature
• Disabilities Studies
• Social Class, Anti-Capitalism, and Decolonization
• SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) Literature and Film
• Creative Writing (Prose)
• Editing