Townsend Scholz

Townsend Scholz earned his B.A. in English Literature from the University of California Riverside in 2012 and his M.A. in English Literature from Loyola Marymount University in 2018. He has been working with LMU’s Core Curriculum as a writing instructor since he began his graduate work in 2016.

Prior to coming to LMU, Townsend worked as a peer mentor, teaching assistant, and class reader at the University of California Riverside and as an editor at an international market research firm. He has presented papers at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association’s annual conference and the LMU Graduate Research Symposium and had creative and critical work published in several undergraduate and graduate journals. Townsend’s primary research interests include 20th century American poetry, confessional poetry, musical lyric, and poetry of and about the human body. His current research involves reading the body as a means of deciphering and challenging social norms in the work of 20th century confessional poets like Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.