Our faculty are distinguished writers established in the literary field. Through workshops and craft classes, they encourage students' literary abilities. Visiting scholars teach criticism and seminars on American and British literature.
Our faculty are distinguished writers established in the literary field. Through workshops and craft classes, they encourage students' literary abilities. Visiting scholars teach criticism and seminars on American and British literature.
Through the close study of nonfiction writing including essays, researched work, and memoir, this course examines the way nonfiction writing works with a special emphasis on form and technique.
Discussions center on students' poems. Selected readings are assigned to focus on technical problems of craftsmanship and style.
Folklorist William Ferris has said that oral history is the root of all Southern art. If we accept that art is formed from this human impulse to tell, then what stories is the region telling itself? Who gets to narrate? How have those stories changed over time, from Eudora Welty to Jesmyn Ward, Gone with the Wind to The Wind Done Gone? What shorthand signs have come to stand in for the South, and how are those interpreted, misinterpreted, and subverted? Over the semester we’ll examine four themes—Landscape, Race, Kin, and Language—as we study Southern literature in a broader creative context that will include dashes of folk art, film, and hip-hop.
Discussions center on students' fiction. Selected readings are assigned to focus on technical problems of craftsmanship and style.
Discussions center on students' nonfiction. Selected readings are assigned to focus on technical problems of craftsmanship and style.
