Dan Roche, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor Communication & Film Studies
- Director, Creative Writing Creative Writing
Dr. Roche has been at Le Moyne since 2001 and has taught and continues to teach courses in newswriting, environmental journalism, literature (including Major Authors courses on Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, and Maya Angelou), multimedia storytelling, nonfiction writing (including Writing about Popular Culture and The Art of Writing Short), the photo essay, media ethics, and environmental sustainability. His books include the memoirs Great Expectation: A Father’s Diary (Iowa, 2008) and Love’s Labors (Riverhead, 1999). His essays, poems, and photographs have appeared in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Another Chicago Magazine, The North American Review, Under the Sun, The Watershed Review, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, Passages North, Chautauqua, Why We’re Here: New York Essayists on Living Upstate, and other places. He’s been a fellow in Nonfiction Literature with the New York Foundation for the Arts. His forthcoming nonfiction book, How to Fake an Eye: Harmony and Healing in Plastic and Glass, will be published by MIT Press in 2025. He currently directs Le Moyne’s Creative Writing Program.
Education
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Dayton
- M.A., English, Ohio State University
- M.A., Nonfiction Writing, University of Iowa
- Ph.D., English, University of Iowa
