Heather McPherson

Heather is a hilarious wonderful amazing professor. Just cares SO much about her students. Class is always a little chaotic and all over the place but in the best possible way. Modern Humor Writing was such a joy to have in my schedule and I recommend it to people all the time. If you can take any class with Heather, do it.

7/28/2025

Heather is a great professor and really cares about her students. The class was engaging and I feel like I learned a lot about writing through her great feedback.

5/7/2025

Heather is awesome. Such a fun, intentional professor. Loved this class and learned a lot!

2/10/2025

If you can only take one class at WashU, TAKE MODERN HUMOR WRITING. Heather is incredibly funny and caring and the class is an easy A as long as you do all the work on time. Every single class I felt like I was learning something fun and I was constantly laughing. This class made me feel less stressed every time I was there which is so rare.

12/14/2023

Heather was fantastic, probably one of the nicest professors I've ever had. Her class is very engaging and she teaches very well. You WILL improve your writing ability in her class. There are weekly reading/writing assignments, but nothing overly long and they're generally interesting. She's also really personable and funny!

5/9/2020

Heather is wonderful and the classes are a joy to attend. She's an incredibly engaged, thoughtful and funny professor who genuinely cares about her students. We were assigned either 1 short essay or a reading/response assignment a week, which weren't too bad for me even as an engineer. I'd take Humor Writing again in an instant.

4/25/2019

Heather is very helpful in her feedback and gives interesting readings, but gives a TON of writing assignments. I knew this was a writing class, but did not anticipate how much of a time commitment this class would be. She usually assigns an essay a week. Only take if you're willing to write a LOT.

6/23/2014