The Rookie Professor

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I'm Nina Ellis, an author, academic, and (very new) assistant professor of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature. Here, you'll find a video diary of my first year as a 'rookie' professor, chronicling the peaks, pits and pleasant surprises of life in academia. Please keep me company as I embark on this crazy journey! I've published academic articles in Critical Quarterly, Critique, The Cambridge Quarterly and Short Fiction in Theory & Practice, and short stories and essays in Granta, The Paris Review, The Idaho Review, The London Magazine and elsewhere. My biography of the North American short story writer Lucia Berlin, LOOKING FOR LUCIA, is under contract with Farrar, Straus & Giroux and will come out in 2026 or 2027. You can find out more by subscribing to my Substack, lookingforlucia.substack.com. Find me elsewhere: instagram.com/drninaellis/ tiktok.com/@drninaellis substack.com/@drninaellis