Pam McCombs

Pam McCombs taught Harry Potter: Children’s Literature, Literary Allusion, and Pop Culture for six years at EMU, and she taught in the First-Year Writing program for 14 years at Eastern Michigan University. In Fall 2025, Pam will be teaching English 111 at Washtenaw Community College. She will also be at EMU as a writing consultant for the UWC. She has been with the UWC since 2017 and enjoys working one-on-one with undergrad and grad students. Volunteering has also been a big part of her life. She volunteered for the Ann Arbor District Library Friends Bookshop for ten years and now volunteers for YpsiWrites, a part of the Office of Campus and Community Writing at EMU. Pam joined the College In Prison staff in 2023 as a writing consultant and enjoys the conversations with these inspiring students. Pam’s passion for comics and graphic novels/memoirs has been a big part of her teaching. She incorporates comics and graphic memoirs into her curriculum. Reading, sketching, gardening, and walking her seven-year-old Yorkie/Havanese, Annie, are her hobbies.

Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1987, Eastern Michigan University, majoring in graphic design and photography
Master’s in Children’s Literature in 2007, Eastern Michigan University
Master’s in Written Communication with an emphasis in teaching of writing in 2011, Eastern Michigan University

2012 Eastern Michigan Writing Progject (EMWP) Fellow
Cognitive Coach
Participated in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) for eight years

2013, “Making and Understanding Comics, Three Panels at a Time.” Language Arts Journal of Michigan 29. 1.

2025, SRCC “20th Century Crot Essay Meets 21st Century Multimodality”
2022, Eastern Michigan University First-Year Writing Teaching Portfolio Award