Michael Hyde, PhD

Education

BA, University of Pennsylvania
MFA, Columbia University
PhD, New York University

2004-2005 State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
2013-2014 FIT Faculty Excellence Award

Biography

Michael Hyde is Professor of writing and literature in the English and Communication Studies Department at FIT.  He earned his PhD from New York University, writing on literature and ethics, and his MFA from Columbia University, where he was a Teaching and Writing Fellow in Fiction.  He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, completing a BA in English, with department honors, and a minor in French.       

He is the author of the short story collection What Are You Afraid Of?, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.  His stories have appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, Alaska Quarterly Review, Austin Chronicle, Bloom,Confrontation, Megacity Fictions, Ontario Review, Philadelphia Stories, Witness, and in the anthology Western Pennsylvania Reflections: Stories from the Alleghenies to Lake Erie sponsored by the PA Writing Project.  He has received fellowship and residency support from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation for Creative Writing, the Noepe Center for Literary Arts, the Sewanee Writers Conference, and the Fundacin Valparaso in Spain.         

Prior to joining the faculty at FIT in 2001, he taught at Columbia University, New York University, Johns Hopkins Universitys Center for Talented Youth, and the German-American School of San Francisco.  He was honored with a SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2005 and an FIT Faculty Excellence Award in 2014.  

Courses

• EN 121 English Composition
• EN 231 Short Fiction
• EN 234 Gay and Lesbian Literature
• EN 301 Imaginative Worlds
• EN 336 From Gothic to Horror: Literature of Fear
• EN 361 Creative Writing
• EN 362 Creative Nonfiction
• EN 363 Fiction Writing
• EN 390 The Uncanny
• MI 641 Creative Writing for Illustrators