toss_my_potatoes

I am halfway through an MA in rhet/comp at a mid-ranked university. Currently, my area of interest is digital rhetoric; my dissertation is a discourse analysis of some famous and sort of pivotal internet stuff (think manifestos). However, I would like to move away from digital rhetoric and more into the rhetoric of life writing; many of my papers, including one I presented a bit ago at a conference, focus on personal writing, such as popular life writing, autobiography, biography, and some creative nonfiction. Fortunately, both of my mentors have been guiding me toward suitable PhD programs-- they seem a bit more theory-heavy and traditional than what I would like, but this field is certainly something I would like to pursue. However, my other passion is life writing itself-- I'm writing an essay right now that I want to try to publish before all of these applications for Fall 2019 are due (fingers crossed)! I absolutely love the genre of memoir. It is my favorite type of writing to read on my own time, and I have really enjoyed experimenting with it this summer. The reason I'm asking this question is because I have teaching experience in college rhetoric/comp and I kind of hated it. Teaching in itself was fun, but the material was just not something I could not interest myself in. It was a struggle to frame everything in an exciting light for the students. But, I have tutored students in creative writing at another college, and TA'd in an advanced creative writing class, and it was awesome. In the end, I think I would like to pursue an MFA in order to teach fiction/life writing/autobiography, but the problem is, that isn't my background. I have one fiction workshop-esque course under my belt, and will be taking a creative nonfiction course next year, but that's about it. Any advice is appreciated. Bonus question: is there an equivalent program to Cornell's joint MFA/PhD program that isn't at Cornell? Just trying to be realistic here, lol.