Teaching

As a teacher, Joy Castro focuses on blending deep creative work with rigorous critical interrogation and interpretation. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, her courses range from Autobiographical Writing, Women's Literature, U.S. Latina/o Studies, and Chicana/o Literature at the undergraduate level to Women's Modernism and Writing Literary Nonfiction: Memoir at the graduate level. In 2011, she received the UNL Annis Chaikin Sorensen Award for Distinguished Teaching.

At Wabash College, a men's liberal arts college, she taught fiction writing, critical theory, British and U.S. modernism, a Faulkner seminar, and the Harlem Renaissance.

She has also led creative writing classes and workshops at the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program, the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference , the Macondo Writers' Workshop, and the University of Iowa MFA in Nonfiction Program.