Megan Volpert

Georgia Connections

Decatur, DeKalb County

Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Kennesaw State University

Core Faculty, Etowah Valley Low-Residency MFA, Reinhardt University

Winner, Georgia Author of the Year, category of Essay, for Boss Broad (2019).

Notes of Interest

Megan Volpert's purpose is to give good guidance. Whether on the page or the stage, from home or from an office, she is an award-winning interdisciplinary thinker whose interrogations of popular culture have served millions of ideas to thousands of interested parties for over twenty years.

She is author or editor of over a dozen books on popular culture, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists and an American Library Association honoree. Her newest work is Why Alanis Morissette Matters (University of Texas Press, 2025) and she won Georgia Author of the Year for Boss Broad (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). She writes for PopMatters and Salon, and has edited anthologies of philosophical essays on the music of Tom Petty and the television series RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Volpert was a high school English teacher in Fulton County Schools for very many years, even winning Teacher of the Year in 2014, before transitioning to serve as an educator at the collegiate level. She teaches Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University and in the MFA Writing program at Reinhardt University. In addition, she is a Fellow at the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought. As a reiki master, Volpert's integrative medicine practices include tarot and scent work. She identifies as queer, gender non-conforming, and disabled, sometimes using a cane and mostly preferring to sit down.