Cory Massaro

MFA Student, Wikimedia Foundation

Class Year

2010

Professional Background

MFA Student at Wilkes; Staff Software Engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation; former Software Engineer at Google

How has being an English graduate from Duke University help shape your professional success?

The study of literature forms the foundation of my thought. Even in my current professional life as a software engineer, I approach things with an attention to language, history, and narrative. By continually viewing the world as a humanities scholar, I've been able to form distinctive views on tech and articulate those views in both fiction and nonfiction. I've recently decided to pursue an MFA in creative writing, picking back up a passion first nurtured in my by Duke's English program, and have produced two manuscripts so far.

Linkedin and Personal website:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-massaro-94403465/

https://corymassaro.com

Professional Projects:

https://thewildword.com/lets-do-luddism/

https://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/2023/07/new-fiction-by-cory-massaro-gran-flower/

 

 

 

 

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