College Lecturer at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences
Daniel Dissinger is a Kerouac and Beat studies scholar, and a First-Year Writing professor. He has a PhD and MA from Saint John’s University, as well as an MFA graduate of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. For seven years, Daniel has taught at SUNY College at Old Westbury and has split his time between the English Department and the First Year Department. He has also had the pleasure of teaching at CUNY York, Saint John’s University, and The Harry Van Arsdale Center for Labor Studies. In 2016, Daniel joined the Writing faculty at USC Dornsife. Daniel is a New York poet who has performed at the Bowery Poetry Club, The Nuyorican Poet’s Café, The New York Poetry Festival, and The Queens Lit Festival and has curated events all throughout the greater New York area. In 2015, he had the honor of performing at the International Poetry Festival at Bridgewater College. Daniel’s poetry has been published in a variety of journals such as Monkey Puzzle Magazine, 580 Split (online), the first issue of Trunk of Delirium, and and/or V2, as well as the 2015 anthology Before Passing put out by Great Weather for Media. In 2013, he was featured as the “Centre Stage Poet” in England’s Decanto Magazine. His first chapbook, tracing the shape…, was published by Shadow Mountain Press in 2012.