Dr. Meghan Brinson

Biography

Meghan Brinson teaches in the Undergraduate Legal Studies Program at the College of Law, University of Illinois. She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law, a Master of Arts in English Studies from Georgetown University, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. Brinson has experience in teaching undergraduate composition, business writing, and creative writing, and has served as a Piper International Writing Fellow at the National University of Singapore. Her academic background includes expertise in 20th-century American literature, postmodernism, critical theory, and narratology. She is interested in the intersection of law and literature, and her current interdisciplinary research employs narrative studies and critical legal studies to investigate how literary tropes influence judicial reasoning and trials. Additionally, she is a published poet and nonfiction essayist with several chapbooks and journal publications to her credit. Brinson also worked as an editor for the national literary magazine Hayden's Ferry Review and interned at the literary journal Swamp Pink. She received her bachelor's degree in English from the College of Charleston.

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