Ryan Mahokey

Literature and Criticism Ph.D. Student 

Email: psxcc@iup.edu 

Murrysville, Pennsylvania 

Positions: 

• EGO President

• Writing tutor for the Jones White Writing Center

• Graduate Tutor for the ARHU Big Ideas program

• Adjunct Instructor of First-Year Writing at St. Vincent College

• Copy editor for the Scriblerian

Book Recommendations: 

• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk:

  • "I recommend this because I must recommend this. It is the book that made me obsessed with literature in the way that I am today. It was groundbreaking in the way that it made people who hated reading all of a sudden enjoy it. I also do a lot of my research in Transgressive Fiction, so this is a must-mention."

• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

  • "This book, in some ways, broke me. I was so wonderfully confused by it and the overlapping between mental illness, spirituality, traumatic amnesia, and many other concepts that, somehow, worked together to create a portrait of a very complex, very realistic character."