Jacob Hubbard

I’m a writing teacher and indie author with both a B.A. in English and an M.A. Rhetoric and Writing Studies at San Diego State University. Having been a lecturer for the RWS department since the Fall of 2017, I come into every semester with a passion for teaching and a love for helping students achieve success. I am also a strong advocate for the neurodiversity movement, making it an important component of my work in both my writing and teaching. I strive for equity and fairness in teaching and to motivate students to think critically, creatively, and rhetorically.

Much of my pedagogy has been inspired by the works of Peter Elbow, Asao Inoue, and Paulo Freire, but it is also rooted in my own real-life experiences as a non-traditional student within the CA Special Education System of the 1990s-2000s, and then later going achieving academic success within the California community college system. I teach a wide variety of writing courses ranging from general writing for sophomores, juniors, and seniors, as well as professional writing courses for business and engineering students. My goal as a teacher is to inspire students to make a difference in their community by embracing their voices as writers and recognizing and developing the power they have in their writing.

When I am not teaching, I work on building my creative writing career through my own publishing imprint Celestial Seaside Publishing with my debut novel Sounds of Yesterday, a novel that explores issues related to neurodiversity and mental health. When not writing or teaching, I enjoy hiking, traveling, browsing my local bookstore, and playing video games like Elden Ring and Dark Souls.

Academic Interests: literature, political rhetoric, fiction and creative writing, cultural studies, rhetorical theory, the effects of Artificial Intelligence in education, composition theory

Personal Interests: film, video games, reading, hiking, travel, art, and cooking

You can check out my website: jacobhubbardauthor.com.

You can also check my imprint’s Instagram page: instagram.com/celestialseasidepublishing.