James Meetze, PhD

Dr. James Meetze is Professor and Program Chair of Honors in the Division of Communication Arts and Humanities and Interdisciplinary Programs at the University of Arizona Global Campus. He earned a Doctorate in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing: Poetry from Mills College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz. Dr. Meetze began his career teaching creative writing and literature at the University of California San Diego. Over his 20-year career in higher education, he has also taught at California State University San Marcos, in the MFA Program at National University, and in both the MA in Depth Psychology and Creativity Program and MA/PhD Program in Jungian and Archetypal Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is the author of six books of poetry, including, most recently, The Long Now (2026), Phantom Hour (2016), and Dayglo (2011), for which he was awarded the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. His books have been translated to Croatian, Serbian, Turkish, Finnish, and Spanish. He is editor of Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler and co-author of the textbooks, Film: From Watching to Seeing (2023) and Transcending Genre: An Introduction to the Elements of Creative Writing (2016). His films and screenplays, co-written with Ken White, have won numerous awards. Dr. Meetze’s research interests include Transdisciplinary applications of the Humanities, modular and stackable instructional design, creativity and workforce skills development, online learning communities, depth psychological perspectives in the creative arts, and contemporary poetry and poetics.