Dan Roche, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor Communication
- Director, Creative Writing Creative Writing
Dr. Roche has been at Le聽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鈥橲 DIARY (Iowa, 2008) and LOVE鈥橲 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鈥檙e Here: New York Essayists on Living Upstate, and other places. He鈥檚 been a fellow in Nonfiction Literature with the New York Foundation for the Arts. His latest nonfiction book is聽聽(MIT Press, 2025). He currently directs Le聽Moyne鈥檚 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
