Marian M. MacCurdy

Marian Mesrobian MacCurdy retired professor and chair of the Department of Writing at Ithaca College, is currently at Hampshire College where she teaches courses in creative nonfiction, writing pedagogy, and the theory and practice of therapeutic writing. She has studied at Cornell University's School for Criticism and Theory with Jacqueline Rose and took two accredited workshops on psychological trauma for educators and medical professionals presented by Harvard Medical School with primary lecturers Judith Herman and Bessel van der Kolk. Books include Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice (2000), The Mind's Eye: Image and Memory in Writing About Trauma (2007), and Sacred Justice: The Voices and Legacy of the Armenian Operation Nemesis (2015). Articles include personal and academic essays in such journals as Literature and Medicine, the Journal of Teaching Writing, and Ararat. She received her Ph.D. in Humanities from Syracuse University. Her grandfather was one of the three leaders of Operation Nemesis, the secret project to assassinate the architects of the Armenian Genocide in which a million and a half Armenians were murdered by the Ottoman Turks in 1915-1918.