Creative Writing and Literature
Students enrolled in the Master of Liberal Arts program in Creative Writing & Literature will develop skills in creative writing and literary analysis through literature courses and writing workshops in fiction, screenwriting, poetry, and nonfiction. Through online group courses and one-on-one tutorials, as well as a week on campus, students hone their craft and find their voice.
Creative Writing and Literature Master’s Degree Program
Online Courses
11 out of 12 total courses
On-Campus Experience
One 1- or 3-week residency in summer
$3,220 per course
Unlock your creative potential and hone your unique voice.
Build a strong foundation in literary criticism and writing across multiple genres — including fiction, nonfiction, and drama — in our live online writing and literature program with an in-person writers’ residency at Harvard.
Program Overview
Through the master’s degree in creative writing and literature, you’ll hone your skills as a storyteller — crafting publishable original scripts, novels, and stories.
In small, workshop-style classes, you’ll master key elements of narrative craft, including characterization, story and plot structure, point of view, dialogue, and description. And you’ll learn to approach literary works as both a writer and scholar by developing skills in critical analysis.
Program Benefits
Instructors who are published authors of drama, fiction, and nonfiction
A community of writers who support your growth in live online classes
Writer's residency with agent & editor networking opportunities
Personalized academic and career advising
Thesis or capstone options that lead to publishable creative work
Harvard Alumni Association membership upon graduation
Customizable Course Curriculum
As you work through the program’s courses, you’ll enhance your creative writing skills and knowledge of literary concepts and strategies. You’ll practice the art of revision to hone your voice as a writer in courses like Writing the Short Personal Essay and Writing Flash Fiction.
Within the creative writing and literature program, you will choose between a thesis or capstone track. You’ll also experience the convenience of online learning and the immersive benefits of learning in person.
11 Online Courses
- Primarily synchronous
- Fall, spring, January, and summer options
Writers’ Residency
A 1- or 3-week summer master class taught by a notable instructor, followed by an agents-and-editors weekend
Thesis or Capstone Track
- Thesis: features a 9-month independent creative project with a faculty advisor
- Capstone: includes crafting a fiction or nonfiction manuscript in a classroom community
The path to your degree begins before you apply to the program.
First, you’ll register for and complete 2 required courses, earning at least a B in each. These foundational courses are investments in your studies and count toward your degree, helping ensure success in the program.
Getting Started
We invite you to explore degree requirements, confirm your initial eligibility, and learn more about our unique “earn your way in” admissions process.
A Faculty of Creative Writing Experts
Studying at Harvard Extension School means learning from the world’s best. Our instructors are renowned academics in literary analysis, storytelling, manuscript writing, and more. They bring a genuine passion for teaching, with students giving our faculty an average rating of 4.7 out of 5.
Bryan Delaney
Playwright and Screenwriter
Talaya Adrienne Delaney
Lecturer in Extension, Harvard University
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta
Our community at a glance.
80% of our creative writing and literature students are enrolled in our master’s degree program for either personal enrichment or to make a career change. Most (74%) are employed full time while pursuing their degree and work across a variety of industries.
Download: Creative Writing & Literature Master's Degree Fact Sheet
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Career Opportunities & Alumni Outcomes
Graduates of our Creative Writing and Literature Master’s Program have writing, research, and communication jobs in the fields of publishing, advertising/marketing, fundraising, secondary and higher education, and more.
Some alumni continue their educational journeys and pursue further studies in other nationally ranked degree programs, including those at Boston University, Brandeis University, University of Pennsylvania, and Cambridge University.
Our alumni hold titles as:
- Marketing Manager
- Director of Publishing
- Senior Research Writer
Our alumni work at a variety of leading organizations, including:
- Little, Brown & Company
- New York University (NYU)
- Bentley Publishers
Career Advising and Mentorship
Whatever your career goals, we’re here to support you. Harvard’s Mignone Center for Career Success offers career advising, employment opportunities, Harvard alumni mentor connections, and career fairs like the annual on-campus Harvard Humanities, Media, Marketing, and Creative Careers Expo.
Your Harvard University Degree
Upon successful completion of the required curriculum, you will earn the Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) in Extension Studies, Field: Creative Writing and Literature.
Expand Your Connections: the Harvard Alumni Network
As a graduate, you’ll become a member of the worldwide Harvard Alumni Association (400,000+ members) and Harvard Extension Alumni Association (29,000+ members).
Harvard is closer than one might think. You can be anywhere and still be part of this world.
Tuition & Financial Aid
Affordability is core to our mission. When compared to our continuing education peers, it’s a fraction of the cost.
After admission, you may qualify for financial aid . Typically, eligible students receive grant funds to cover a portion of tuition costs each term, in addition to federal financial aid options.
What can you do with a master’s degree in creative writing and literature?
A master’s degree in creative writing and literature prepares you for a variety of career paths in writing, literature, and communication — it’s up to you to decide where your interests will take you.
You could become a professional writer, editor, literary agent, marketing copywriter, or communications specialist.
You could also go the academic route and bring your knowledge to the classroom to teach creative writing or literature courses.
Is a degree in creative writing and literature worth it?
The value you find in our Creative Writing and Literature Master’s Degree Program will depend on your unique goals, interests, and circumstances.
The curriculum provides a range of courses that allow you to graduate with knowledge and skills transferable to various industries and careers.
How long does completing the creative writing and literature graduate program take?
Program length is ordinarily anywhere between 2 and 5 years. It depends on your preferred pace and the number of courses you want to take each semester.
For an accelerated journey, we offer year round study, where you can take courses in fall, January, spring, and summer.
While we don’t require you to register for a certain number of courses each semester, you cannot take longer than 5 years to complete the degree.
What skills do you need prior to applying for the creative writing and literature degree program?
Harvard Extension School does not require any specific skills prior to applying, but in general, it’s helpful to have solid reading, writing, communication, and critical thinking skills if you are considering a creative writing and literature master’s degree.
Initial eligibility requirements can be found on our creative writing and literature master’s degree requirements page .
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Harvard english dept creative writing workshop applications, date: .
Applications for the English Department's Creative Writing Workshops are now open for the Spring 2022 semester. These workshops are open to all Harvard undergraduate and graduate students.
The deadline for submitting applications is 11:59 pm ET on Saturday, January 15. Most workshops require cover letters and writing samples.
Applications MUST be submitted through the Harvard Creative Writing Submittable page here.
Please read all instructions on our Submittable page before submitting your applications
Any students interested in creative writing workshops are encouraged to apply.
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Application for admission to the Harvard English Graduate Program is completed through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences . The application deadline for 2023-2024 admission is January 5th, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. For a full list of application requirements and instructions for the application process, please see the GSAS Application Instructions and GSAS Admissions Requirements .
The Harvard English Department does not discriminate against applicants or students on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry or any other protected classification.
The following is a set of general guidelines for the English Department’s admissions process. It should be noted that while several areas are emphasized here, the Admissions Committee carefully examines the overall profile of each applicant, taking these and other aspects of the application into consideration:
Writing Samples
The writing samples (one primary and one secondary) are highly significant parts of the application. Candidates should submit two double-spaced, 15-page papers of no more than 5,000 words each, in 12-point type, and with 1-inch margins. The writing samples must be examples of critical writing (rather than creative writing) on subjects directly related to English. Applicants should not send longer papers with instructions to read an excerpt or excerpts, but should edit the samples themselves so that they submit only fifteen pages for each paper. Candidates who know the field in which they expect to specialize should, when possible, submit a primary writing sample related to that field.
While candidates’ overall GPA is important, it is more important to have an average of no lower than A- in literature courses (and related courses). In addition, while we encourage applications from candidates in programs other than English, they must have both the requisite critical skills and a foundation in English literature for graduate work in English. Most of our successful candidates have some knowledge of all the major fields of English literary study and advanced knowledge of the field in which they intend to study.
Three Letters of Recommendation
It is important to have strong letters of recommendation from professors who are familiar with candidates’ academic work. Applicants who have been out of school for several years should try to reestablish contact with former professors. Additional letters from employers may also be included. Recommenders should comment not only on the applicant’s academic readiness for our PhD program but also on the applicant’s future potential as teachers and scholars.
Unfortunately, Interfolio does not work well with Harvard’s online application system. We ask that your recommenders upload their letters directly to the online application, with upload tool provided.
Statement of Purpose
The Statement of Purpose is not a personal statement and should not be heavily weighted down with autobiographical anecdotes. It should be no longer than 1,000 words. It should focus on giving the admissions committee a clear sense of applicants’ individual interests and strengths. Applicants need not indicate a precise field of specialization, if they do not know, but it is helpful to know something about a candidate’s professional aspirations and sense of their own skills, as well as how the Harvard English department might help in attaining their goals. Those who already have a research topic in mind should outline it in detail, giving a sense of how they plan their progress through the program. Those who do not should at least attempt to define the questions and interests they foresee driving their work over the next few years.
While there are no specific prerequisites for admission, a strong language background helps to strengthen the application, and students who lack it should be aware that they will need to address these gaps during their first two years of graduate study. For more details, please see the “Language Requirements” section of the Program Description .
The GRE General and Subject Tests are not required as part of the English PhD application process. Students wishing to send in scores may do so, but they will not be factored into the admissions decision.
Areas of Study
Unspecified | Medieval | Renaissance/Early Modern | 18th Century/Enlightenment | 19th Century British/Romantics/Victorian | Early American (to 1900) | 20th Century British | 20th Century American | Criticism and Theory | The English Language | Transnational Anglophone/Postcolonial | African American Literature | Drama | Poetry
The Harvard English Department is committed to admitting and supporting a diverse community of graduate students. The Department encourages applications from students from all undergraduate institutions and backgrounds, including students of color and underrepresented minorities, queer and transgender students, first-generation students, foreign nationals, and veterans. The Department also encourages applications from students across a range of sub-fields, critical perspectives, and methodological orientations. You can browse current student research interests by going to “Graduate Students” under the “People” tab at the top of this page and sorting by field. For more information about issues of diversity at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, please review the resources and informations below:
Diversity at GSAS
Perspectives: Resources for Minority Applicants
Smooth Transitions: Organizations and Resources
W.E.B. Du Bois Graduate Society
Graduate Admissions FAQ
How many people apply to the program, and how many are admitted.
The PhD program in English at Harvard is extremely competitive. We receive an average of 300-350 applications per year, and we admit approximately 10-15 students (acceptance rate of about 4-5%).
Does the Department of English offer an MA or MFA?
No; the Department of English only offers a PhD in English Literature. Students already in the doctoral program who have met certain curricular requirements are able to apply for a non-terminal AM degree, but no terminal Master's program exists. We do not offer a graduate program in creative writing.
Does the Department of English offer a degree in TEFL/TESOL/TESL
No, the Department of English does not offer these programs. Our graduate program leads to a PhD in English Literature.
Are international applicants encouraged?
The department welcomes international applicants, including non-native English speakers who have a strong command of the English language. Per GSAS:
"Adequate command of spoken and written English is essential to success in graduate study at Harvard. Applicants who are non-native English speakers can demonstrate English proficiency in one of three ways:
- Receiving an undergraduate degree from an academic institution where English is the primary language of instruction.*
- Earning a minimum score of 80 on the Internet based test (iBT) of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)**
- Earning a minimum score of 6.5 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic test.**
A master’s degree or other graduate degree is not accepted as proof of English proficiency.
*Special note for applicants with an undergraduate degree from a US institution where English was not the primary language of instruction: if a portion of your program was conducted in English, you may petition for a waiver of the TOEFL/IELTS requirement. Contact [email protected] for details.
**Some degree programs may require a higher score on either the TOEFL or IELTS. Visit your degree program page of interest for more information."
Many international students inquire about non-degree granting program. Information for Special Student, Visiting Fellow, and other programs can be found here .
Can accepted students enroll on a part-time basis?
No, our graduate program is full-time, and requires residency at Harvard. The majority of our students take five or six years to obtain their PhD. If you are interested in taking graduate courses part-time, online, and/or at night, you may want to look into the offerings of the Harvard Extension School .
Can accepted students pursue a secondary field of study?
Yes. For a list of fields and more information, please visit the secondary field of study page on the GSAS website . Students who choose to pursue courses for a secondary field remain under GSAS time limits and must meet all milestones and deadlines in the English PhD program.
Does the department offer financial aid?
Admissions decisions are made without knowing the financial need of the applicants, so that financial status (including availability of supplemental funding) plays no role in the assessment of one's suitability for admission. All students (including international students) who are admitted to the PhD program receive full and equal funding, through tuition waivers and modest living stipends. Teaching fellowships are made available to graduate students starting in their third year. You may want to review the "Tuition and Fees" section of GSAS's website for details about other fees and the approximate cost of living in Cambridge.
Can you provide a list of required documents for application?
- Two writing samples (one primary and one secondary) 15-pages in length each, double-spaced (bibliographies do not count toward the page limit).
- A Statement of Purpose of 1000 words, which gives a clear sense of your strengths and interests and which details what you wish to pursue in a doctoral program.
- Transcripts from each college/university attended. The Graduate School requires that you upload your transcript(s) with your online application. Please do not send paper transcripts.
- Three recommendations from faculty members who can speak to your academic capabilities. All recommendations should be uploaded via the GSAS online application system. Please do not send paper recommendations. We do not recommend the use of Interfolio.
- A minimum score of 80 on the TOEFL iBT (internet-based test) is required for all non-native English speakers who have not received a degree from a university or college in which English is the language of instruction.
What if I am missing any of the required components?
An incomplete application will still be reviewed in its entirety, but it will not be seen as competitive as applications considered "complete."
What if I did not major in English as an undergraduate?
Students admitted to our program have not always been English majors as undergraduates; however, applicants must have both the requisite critical skills and a foundation in English literature for graduate work. This is generally demonstrated by substantial undergraduate coursework and recommendations from faculty in the field. Applicants from other disciplines will sometimes pursue a Master’s degree (or other graduate coursework) in English Literature first – before applying to the PhD program – to obtain a stronger background in the subject.
What if I already have a Master's Degree in English?
If you already have an MA, a maximum of four graduate-level courses may be transferred from the other institution, at the discretion of the Director of Graduate Studies. Transferred courses will count as 100-level courses toward your PhD requirements. Please note that an MA is not required for admission to the PhD Program – and indeed, the majority of our applicants do not have one.
Is proficiency in languages other than English required?
There are no specific language prerequisites for admission, but a solid background in languages other than English, particularly those that would be useful for scholarly research, will strengthen your application. Demonstrated reading knowledge of two languages (usually Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish, and Italian) is required by the beginning of the third year in the program. You can view examples of past language exams on our Resources for Grad Students page.
Can I meet with a professor?
Appointments to meet with faculty members must be made by contacting them directly. You can find their contact info on the faculty page .
Where should I mail supplemental application materials?
The entire application system is conducted online. Please do not send any paper materials to the English Department. GSAS admissions also no longer accepts paper materials.
I'm having a technical problem with the GSAS online application.
The Department of English is not able to troubleshoot or provide help for technical issues with the online application tool. Please click the “Technical Support” link on the application login screen to notify tech support.
When will I hear back about application decisions?
GSAS Admissions sends out letters containing application decisions in early- to mid-March. Please note that the English Department is not able to answer questions about a candidate’s application status over the phone or via email.
Can I study as a visiting fellow at Harvard?
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers the option of enrolling as a Special Student or Visiting Fellow. See here for more details. Please note that the Department of English does not play a role in the administration of this program.
I have another question that hasn't been answered here.
Please email questions to [email protected] .
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In the Department of English , students think about, study and write about the artful ways in which people can and do use words, from thousand-year-old epics about fighting monsters to the intimate poems and the public addresses of our own time. The department is also the academic home at Harvard for creative writers and creative writing. Undergraduates may pursue a Concentration and Secondary Field.
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Daniel Donoghue Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies: Sarah Dimick Undergraduate Program Administrator: Lauren Bimmler Undergraduate Program Assistant: Emily Miller
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Spring 2024
English 187nd. Indigenous Literatures of the Other-than-Human Christopher Pexa
“Indians are an invention,” declares an unnamed hunter in Gerald Vizenor’s (White Earth Ojibwe) 1978 novel, Bearheart. The hunter’s point, as Vizenor has explained in interviews and elsewhere, is not that Indigenous peoples don’t exist, but that the term “Indian” is a colonial fiction or shorthand that captures, essentializes, and thus erases a vast diversity of Indigenous lives and peoples. This course begins from the contention that other categories, and maybe most consequentially that of “nature,” have not only historically borne little resemblance to the lived lives of Indigenous people but have been used as important tools for capture and colonization. We will begin with European writings on the “noble savage” who lives harmoniously in a state of Nature, then move to Indigenous writers and thinkers whose work refuses this invention, along with its corollary category of the supernatural. We will spend most of our time reading 20th- and 21st- century Indigenous literary depictions of other-than-human beings and Indigenous relationships with those beings, highlighting how forms of kinship with them are integral to Indigenous ways of understanding difference, to acting like a good relative, and to Indigenous practices of peoplehood. Readings may include works by Billy-Ray Belcourt, Ella Deloria, Louise Erdrich, Stephen Graham Jones, Leslie Marmon Silko, Leanne Simpson, Kim TallBear, and Gerald Vizenor, among others.
English 115b Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Anna Wilson
What makes stories so pleasurable and revealing but also so enraging and dangerous? How are we to think about the strong emotions they evoke and learn to resist as well as appreciate their power? This course revisits Geoffrey Chaucer's classic fourteenth-century poem, The Canterbury Tales: the deepest and most caustically entertaining analysis of storytelling ever written. The Canterbury Tales consists of a series of tales told by members of a pilgrimage on their way from London to Canterbury, representatives of the internally divided social world of Chaucer’s England. Some are serious, others funny, obscene, or offensive; some are religious, others not at all; some deal with issues local to England, others range across the Europe and the rest of the known world; many are told against other pilgrims. Written in a long-ago past, the poem jumps off the page, in turns unrecognisably weird and startlingly modern. We read the poem in the language in which it was written, Middle English, easy and fun to learn with early help: no previous experience with the language, or with the medieval era, is necessary. We will also explore the poem's long-ranging impact on English literature, including several contemporary reimaginings. Classes include a short lecture on a tale, and class discussion, which continues in weekly sections. Course projects include an essay, a collaborative report on one tale, and a creative option. Students of all years and from all concentrations and programs are welcome. If you are a graduate student interested in taking this class, please contact Prof. Wilson to indicate interest before term begins; there may be an additional graduate section if there is sufficient demand.
This course satisfies the “Pre-1700 Guided Elective" requirement for English concentrators and Secondary Field students.
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The graduate program in English provides you with a broad knowledge in the discipline, including critical and cultural theory and literary history. This solid foundation enables you to choose your own path based on the wide variety of areas of concentration. Our flexible program allows you to take courses outside the department to further explore your chosen field(s). Our program emphasizes excellence in writing, innovative scholarship, and eloquent presentations—important skills you will need in your future profession. The program and its faculty are committed both to diversity in its student body and in the diversity of thought and scholarship.
Examples of student theses and dissertations include “The Write to Stay Home: Southern Black Literature from the Great Depression to Early Twenty-first Century,” “Profaning Theater: The Drama of Religion on the Modernists Stage,” and “Sentimental Borders: Genre and Geography in the Literature of Civil War and Reconstruction.”
Graduates have secured faculty positions at institutions such as Brown University, Columbia University, and University of California, Los Angeles. Others have begun their careers with leading organizations such as Google and McKinsey & Company.
Additional information on the graduate program is available from the Department of English and requirements for the degree are detailed in Policies .
Areas of Study
Unspecified | Medieval | Renaissance/Early Modern | 18th Century/Enlightenment | 19th Century British/Romantics/Victorian | Early American (to 1900) | 20th Century British | 20th Century American | Criticism and Theory | The English Language | Transnational Anglophone/Postcolonial | African American Literature | Drama | Poetry
Admissions Requirements
Please review admissions requirements and other information before applying. You can find degree program-specific admissions requirements below and access additional guidance on applying from the Department of English .
Writing Sample
The writing samples (one primary and one secondary) are highly significant parts of the application. Applicants should submit 2 double-spaced, 15-page papers of no more than 5,000 words each, in 12-point type with 1-inch margins. The writing samples must be examples of critical writing (rather than creative writing) on subjects directly related to English. Applicants should not send longer papers with instructions to read an excerpt or excerpts but should edit the samples themselves so that they submit only 15 pages for each paper. Applicants who know the field in which they expect to specialize should, when possible, submit a primary writing sample related to that field.
Statement of Purpose
The statement of purpose is not a personal statement and should not be heavily weighted down with autobiographical anecdotes. It should be no longer than 1,000 words. It should give the admissions committee a clear sense of applicants’ individual interests and strengths. Applicants need not indicate a precise field of specialization if they do not know, but it is helpful to know something about a candidate’s professional aspirations and sense of their own skills, as well as how the Harvard Department of English might help in attaining their goals. Those who already have a research topic in mind should outline it in detail, giving a sense of how they plan their progress through the program. Those who do not should at least attempt to define the questions and interests they foresee driving their work over the next few years.
Standardized Tests
GRE: Not Accepted
While there are no specific prerequisites for admission, a strong language background helps to strengthen the application, and students who lack it should be aware that they will need to address these gaps during their first two years of graduate study.
While a candidate's overall GPA is important, it is more important to have an average of no lower than A- in literature (and related) courses. In addition, while we encourage applications from candidates in programs other than English, they must have both the requisite critical skills and a foundation in English literature for graduate work in English. Most of our successful candidates have some knowledge of all the major fields of English literary study and advanced knowledge of the field in which they intend to study.
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Rewriting the Boundaries of Creative Writing
On the fourth floor of Lamont Library, large windows light up the sleek offices and conference rooms of the Harvard English Department’s creative writing space. Inside, you can find books written by the College’s faculty strewn across the shelves and students meeting with their professors to discuss their short stories or creative theses. The space is built to inspire.
But who gets access to this space?
In 2012, The Crimson reported that many students expressed dissatisfaction with the exclusivity of the creative writing program at Harvard. Admission to any of the workshops hinges on an application,which must include a cover letter, writing supplement, and short response about experience with previous critical literature courses. At the time, the English department offered 13 creative writing courses with a cap of 12 students each. In 2018, that number rose to 20 workshops, which similarly took the form of small seminar-style courses. But the demand for academic creative writing opportunities rose, too. The English department chair at the time, Nicholas J. Watson, explained that the department had received an enormous amount of interest in 2018: a total of 800 applications from 500 individual students.
In 2019, The Crimson’s Editorial Board questioned the exclusivity of creative writing, considering the program’s then 60 percent acceptance rate.
“We believe that creative writing-based classes that emphasize a student's originality of thought, rather than their ability to learn and mimic an established academic style, are invaluable,” the Editorial Board wrote, also referencing the value of creative writing in revitalizing the humanities. “The English Department should continue making positive adjustments to the creative writing program to ensure that its benefits are available to all.”
This spring, the Department is offering 18 creative writing workshops in total, and students’ interest in the creative writing program has grown even more, says Sam W. Marks, a senior lecturer on playwriting.
“There’s something about the program that is exciting, because of its intimate nature,” he says. “We definitely want to preserve that while also increasing accessibility, and that’s the conversation that we're going to keep having.” He pointed out that the Department is in the early stages of developing initiatives to make creative writing within reach for more students.
But in the meantime, those who choose to pursue creative writing outside of the classroom may still confront selectivity. Student writing organizations such as The Advocate and The Lampoon all have required “comps,” or semester-long educational or evaluative processes, which are highly competitive.
An organization called the Harvard Creative Writing Collective, founded in the summer of 2021, works to combat the exclusivity of creative writing at Harvard. The group’s mission statement declares a dedication to “creating a radically inclusive community of writers on campus.”
The organization’s President and founder, Brammy Rajakumar ’23, shared that the organization was born out of her desire to expand access to creative writing, especially beyond English concentrators. Rajakumar herself is a joint concentrator in Chemistry and English, showcasing how a creative field can inform work in any discipline.
Rajakumar seeks to ensure that the HCWC’s openness will allow anyone with any level of interest in creative writing to pursue that field. “We are always focused on lowering the barrier to engaging with creative writing and making the writing world more flexible and feasible,” she says.
HCWC hosts weekly teas and poetry readings, as well as events with guest speakers who work at the intersection of writing and other fields. “We just want to create a space where people could just drop by and say ‘hey,’” Rajakumar says. There is no pressure to prepare prior to an event and no experience needed to try your hand at an open mic event or share your writing with the group.
All of these initiatives — which include a folder for people to share and comment on work, for those who would prefer not to do so in-person — aim to foster a sense of community among writers. “It's also all about the connection, the people you know, and people who know people who you know,” Rajakumar says. For her, meeting other writers and sharing opportunities is an essential aspect of creative writing.
Service is also a key element of the HCWC’s mission. The group recently worked in conjunction with StoryWish, a student organization that empowers “chronically ill children to dream big and write their own storybooks,” and the Phillips Brooks House Association Mission Hill Afterschool program. Together, they taught elementary school children how to develop storylines, identify the parts of a story, and even try their hand at their own, according to Rajakumar. This workshop aims to help students “develop their own voice and ideas and be creative, especially if they might not be otherwise exposed to creative writing programs,” Rajakumar wrote in a follow-up email statement.
Between the English Department’s efforts to expand access to creative writing courses, and the founding of student organizations like the HCWC, the future looks bright for a culture of inclusivity within the creative writing world at Harvard.
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Thomas Jehn
Sosland Director of the Harvard College Writing Program
Fields: English Literature and Academic Writing
Research and Writing Interests : Secondary school and college writing pedagogy, Institutional histories of literary studies, academic activism, and 60s culture
Tom Jehn is the Sosland Director of the Harvard College Writing Program, where he has taught and administered for more than 20 years. He has served on the Standing Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid, the Committee on Academic Integrity, and the Ad Hoc Committee on Writing and Speaking. He has directed the Harvard Writing Project, a professional development and publications program for faculty members and graduate student instructors across the disciplines at the University. He designed and oversaw Harvard’s first community outreach writing and speaking program at the Harvard Allston Education Portal, where he now serves as a member of its Advisory Board. He has also directed the writing center for Harvard’s Extension School. He has been a contributing author for a series of best-selling composition textbooks published by Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. As the program officer and board member for the Calderwood Writing Initiative at the Boston Athenaeum, an arts and education charity, he designed and led financing for university-partnered writing centers at eight Boston city high schools serving more than 3,000 students. He has taught numerous professional development courses on writing pedagogy for secondary school and college instructors across the country and has collaborated with the National Writing Project. He also advises university writing programs and conducts communications training for companies and non-profits. He holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia.
Karen Heath
Associate Director of the Harvard College Writing Program
Senior Preceptor
Fields: Creative Writing and Literature
Research and Writing Interests : Fiction
Karen Heath received her M.F.A. in fiction from Indiana University and her Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a Senior Preceptor in the Harvard College Writing Program, where she works on issues of program pedagogy and faculty development, as well as the Associate Director of the program. She is the course head for Expos Studio 10. She also teaches fiction writing at the Harvard Extension School.
James Herron
Director, Harvard Writing Project
Fields: Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology
Research and Writing Interests : Pragmatics, linguistics, Latin America, Colombia, political economy, race, class
James is director of the Harvard Writing Project and has taught at Harvard since 2004. He has a Ph.D. in cultural and linguistic anthropology from the University of Michigan. At Harvard he has taught courses on Latin American history and culture, the anthropology of race, social class, capitalism, "the culture of the market," ethnographic and qualitative research methods, and anthropological linguistics. Herron has held research fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others.
Jane Rosenzweig
Director, Harvard Writing Center
Field: Creative Writing
Research and Writing Interests : Fiction, cultural criticism
Jane Rosenzweig holds a B.A. from Yale University, an M.Litt. from Oxford, and an M.F.A in fiction writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has been a staff editor at the Atlantic Monthly and a member of the fiction staff at the New Yorker . Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train , Seventeen , The May Anthology of Oxford and Cambridge Short Stories , The American Prospect , the Boston Globe , the Boston Phoenix , Utne Reader , and The Chronicle Review . She is the director of the Harvard College Writing Center.
Rebecca Skolnik
Assistant Director of Administration for the Academic Resource Center and the Harvard College Writing Program
Rebecca Skolnik manages all Program budgets and payroll; faculty and staff appointments and re-appointments; technology needs for Program administration and faculty; and Program operations.
Aubrey Everett
Program Coordinator, Harvard College Writing Program
Aubrey Everett provides the Writing Program’s faculty and leadership team with overall support, primarily in the areas of course registration, the Writing Exam, Harvard Writing Project and Writing Center, digital projects, various curricular initiatives, and faculty development events and resources. Her background is in print journalism and she has experience working in both publishing and higher education.
Gregory Collins
Staff Assistant, Harvard College Writing Program
Gregory Collins manages all onsite operations, departmental communications, and hiring processes. His background is in creative writing and communications. He has worked with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, The New School MFA Program, WHYY Public Radio, and the Playwrights' Center.
Fields: Near Eastern Studies, Comparative Literature, Orality, Scripture & Literary Theory
Research and Writing Interests : Comparative Religion, International Law, Linguistics, Fiction, and Children’s Literature
Sheza Alqera holds an honors degree in English and Economics from Brown University (B.A.) graduating Magna cum Laude, and a Masters from Harvard Divinity School (MTS). She is presently completing her PhD in Near Eastern Studies and Civilizations (NELC) from Harvard University. Before joining the Harvard College Writing Program, Sheza worked as a Writing Tutor for the Harvard Extension Writing Program for over three years, and more recently, as a Departmental Writing Fellow and Senior Thesis Advisor for the College. She has been awarded Certificates of Excellence in Teaching by Harvard University's Derek Bok Center and has served as a liaison between faculty, staff, and students in her role as Student Representative and member of the Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DIB) Committee for her program.
Fields: History of Science; Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Research and Writing Interests : Nineteenth-century transatlantic history; Victorian medicine & science; women & gender in science
Katie Baca completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Science at Harvard with a secondary field in WGS. Her research focuses on the intersections of nineteenth century science and studies of women, gender, and sexuality. She has worked for the Darwin and Tyndall Correspondence Projects. Before entering academia, Baca worked in equity research. She received her A.B. from Harvard College in History and Science with a secondary field in Economics.
Doug Bafford
Fields: Anthropology
Research and Writing Interests: Anthropology of religion; evangelical Christianity; epistemology; language and culture; race and multiculturalism; contested authority; creationism; South Africa
Website: https://www.dougbafford.com
Doug Bafford is a cultural anthropologist who studies the intersection of religion, authority, and language in Southern Africa. His recent ethnographic research projects trace changes within evangelical Christianity in post-apartheid South Africa, the semiotics of young-earth creationism in the United States, and the dynamics of conservative responses to racism. This work centers on how Christians produce knowledge and authority amid rapid social transformation and is currently being developed into a monograph examining the ambiguous role of culture in conservative lifeworlds . He has taught undergraduate courses in anthropology, expository writing, and interdisciplinary social sciences at several institutions, most recently at the College of the Holy Cross. Originally from Maryland, he received professional training at Carroll Community College, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and Brandeis University.
Erika Bailey
Fields: Theater, Voice, Public Speaking
Research and Writing Interests: Rhetoric, Teaching and Performance, Dialect and Accent Acquisition
Erika Bailey is the Head of Voice and Speech at American Repertory Theater and is a long-time faculty member of the Theater, Dance, and Media concentration at Harvard. She also serves as a member of the Committee on Commencement Parts, choosing student speakers for commencement, and is a faculty advisor at the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. She has taught voice and speech classes at Princeton University, the Juilliard School, Williams College, and Boston Conservatory among others. She gives workshops across the schools of Harvard University on public speaking and performance. She holds a B.A. from Williams College, an M.F.A. from Brandeis University and an M.A. in Voice Studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Pat Bellanca
Fields: English and American Literature
Research and Writing Interests : Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature; Gothic fiction; critical theory; journalism.
Pat Bellanca holds degrees in English from Wellesley College (B A ) and Rutgers University (M A, PhD). In addition to teaching in the Harvard College Writing Program, where she is a Head Preceptor, she directs the master’s degree programs in journalism and in creative writing at Harvard's Division of Continuing Education. She is also co-author of The Short Guide to College Writing , currently in its fifth edition.
Collier Brown
Field: American Studies
Research and Writing Interests: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature; Form and Theory of Poetry; Aesthetics of Waste and Wastelands; History of Photography
Website: http://scbrownjr.com
Collier Brown is a poet, photography critic, and literary scholar. He holds a PhD in American Studies from Harvard and an MFA in Poetry from McNeese State University. Brown’s essays on photography have appeared in more than twenty books, including Eyemazing : The New Collectible Art Photography (Thames & Hudson) and Beth Moon’s Ancient Trees: Portraits of Time (Abbeville Press). His latest poetry collection, Scrap Bones , is out now with Texas Review Press.
Vivien Chung
Field: Social Anthropology
Research and Writing Interests: Work and passion; fashion, power, and identities; culture, meaning, and value; contemporary South Korea
Vivien Chung holds a doctoral degree in anthropology from Harvard University. Her dissertation focused on workers' passion for creative work, drawing from her 18 months of fieldwork in South Korea's fashion magazine industry. During her time at Harvard, she taught a range of anthropology courses. This included a writing-intensive seminar specifically designed to assist undergraduate students in developing their thesis projects. She has also been recognized with The Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching. Currently, she is working on transforming her doctoral research into a book.
Kate Clarke
Kate has worked in the fields of theater and education for over twenty years. She has taught in the Theater Departments at Salem State University and the Boston Conservatory. She worked for the educational branch of the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and has worked extensively in organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club of Boston and the Mayor’s Program, developing classes that focus on promoting communication skills in at-risk youth. Overseas, Kate has co-developed and directed theater/writing programs for projects in Jordan, Palestine and Israel. Kate holds an M.F.A in Theater Arts from Brandeis University and a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Nick Coburn-Palo
Field: Political Science
Research and Writing Interests: International Diplomacy, Conflict Resolution, Political Rhetoric, and American Political Development
Nick Coburn-Palo earned his M A and PhD from Brown University in Political Science. He has over thirty years of instructional and lecturing experience at independent schools and universities on four continents, including Yale University (as a Program Dean for International Security Studies), the Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona), San Jose State University, and the Taipei American School. He has longstanding professional relationships with the United Nations (UNITAR), including work at the Security Council level, as well as with a leading continental economic think tank, European House – Ambrosetti, where he will be delivering a lecture series in Turin and Milan this fall. His academic interests include celebrity politics, East Asian security studies, and leadership training. He also teaches graduate courses in Management and Government for the Harvard Extension School.
Matthew Cole
Research and Writing Interests: Political Theory, Environmental Politics, Political Fiction
Matthew Cole studied political science at Carleton College and later at Duke University, where he completed his Ph.D. with an emphasis on political theory. His current writing projects include a book manuscript about dystopian political thought and articles about 1984 , climate fiction, and technocratic challenges to democracy. Prior to joining the Harvard College Writing Program, he taught with the Department of Political Science and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He has also taught courses for the Harvard Summer School, the Duke Talent Identification Program, and the Carleton Summer Writing Program.
Field: American Literature
Research and Writing Interests : Political novels, history and theory of the novel, American studies
Tad Davies received his Ph.D. in English from University of California, Irvine and before coming to Harvard taught an array of literary and cultural studies courses at Bryant University. His academic interests lay in the intersection between literature and politics—particularly as they meet in the U.S. of the 1960s.
Margaret Deli
Research and Writing Interests : 19th- and 20th-century English and American literature, aesthetic expertise, museum studies, celebrity studies
Maggie completed her MA and PhD in English Language and Literature from Yale University. Her research focuses on art, snobs, and expertise. She received her BA from Johns Hopkins University and holds degrees in English and American Studies and the History of Art and Art-World Practice from Oxford and Christie's Education London respectively.
Samuel Garcia
Fields: History
Research and Writing Interests : Early Modern Europe (Spain in particular); Colonial Latin America; Religious History; Protestant and Catholic Reformations; History of Witchcraft and Magic
Samuel García is a historian of early modern Europe and colonial Latin America. He holds a PhD in History from Yale University, a Master of Theological Studies (MTS) degree from Harvard Divinity School, and a BA from St. John’s College (Annapolis). His research interests include topics such as the Spanish Inquisition, witchcraft and magic, and the development of early modern Catholicism. His current project centers on the definition of superstition in early modern Spain. Prior to Harvard, he taught at Wesleyan University (History Dept. and College of Letters) and, most recently, in the Princeton Writing Program
Terry Gipson
Fields: Public Speaking, Communications, Public Relations, Visual Arts, Political Communication
Research and Writing Interests : Art and Perception, Political Communication
Website: https://www.terrygipsonny.com
Terry Gipson has over 25 years of experience in communications, public relations, government affairs, marketing, mass media, experiential design, and he is a former New York State Senator. He previously served as a Director for MTV Networks where he collaborated with producers to develop live shows and promotional events for MTV and Nickelodeon. Terry is a regular commentator on the WAMC Public Radio Roundtable and teaches public relations and strategic communication for Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education. Before coming to Harvard, he taught public speaking, public relations, political communication, persuasion, and campaign communication as a lecturer at the State University of New York at New Paltz and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His interest in using art as a communication teaching tool has been featured on the Academic Minute and published in Communication Teacher. Terry has an MFA in Theatre Arts from Pennsylvania State University and a BFA in Theatre Arts from Texas Tech University. In addition, he is a member of the National Communication Association and the Public Relations Society of America.
J. Gregory Given
Fields: Study of Religion, Classics
Research and Writing Interests : Early Christianity, late antiquity, Coptic language and literature, ancient letter collections, history of scholarship
Greg Given is a historian of the ancient Mediterranean world, with broad interests in the development of Christian literature and culture from the second to sixth centuries CE. His current book project focuses on the various collections of letters attributed to the second-century martyr-bishop Ignatius of Antioch. He holds a PhD from Harvard in the Study of Religion, a MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and a BA in Classics and Religion from Reed College. Prior to joining the Writing Program, he held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Virginia and also taught courses at the University of Mary Washington, Stonehill College, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Divinity School.
Alexandra Gold
Fields: English and American Literature, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Research and Writing Interests : post-1945 American poetry and visual art; visual-verbal collaborations; gender studies; popular culture; critical pedagogy
Website : www.alexandrajgold.com
Alexandra Gold eceived her PhD in English from Boston University. She earned a BA in English and Political Science and MA in English from the University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to Harvard, she taught course in writing composition, gender studies, and poetry at Drexel and Boston Universities and worked as a tutor in BU’s Writing Center. Her writing and research focuses on post-45 American poetry and visual art, a subject that also informs her first book, The Collaborative Artists' Book: Evolving Ideas in Contemporary Poetry and Art , which was published by the University of Iowa (Contemporary North American Poetry Series) in 2023. In addition to work her in Expos, she also serves as a first-year academic advisor in the college.
Ethan Goldberg
Fields: Literature, Film, Urban Studies, Creative Writing
Research and Writing Interests : Post-1945 Literature, Film, and Culture; The City; Literature and Psychology; Visual and Media Culture; Continental Philosophy and Theory
Ethan Goldberg completed his PhD in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He has taught English and core humanities courses at Queens College, Lehman College, and NYU, as well as English language classes in Madrid. His research focuses on the representation of cities in contemporary literature and film. He has also published English translations of Spanish-language poetry, and is currently working on an urban, autotheoretical work in the style of Walter Benjamin and Olivia Laing.
Field: Cultural Anthropology
Research and Writing Interests : Multispecies relations, care, race, affect, cuteness, wildlife conservation, chimpanzees, postcolonism, Africa
Amy Hanes is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on multispecies relationships between humans and great apes and the politics of wildlife conservation in Central and West Africa. Important themes in her work include care, race, affect, and cuteness. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology and her dual M.A. in Sustainable International Development and Women’s and Gender Studies from Brandeis University. Apart from academia, she has worked as a development editor and with non-governmental organizations in youth education, wildlife conservation, and gender-based violence prevention in the U.S., Niger, the Central African Republic, and Cameroon. Her research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
Eliza Holmes
Field: English and American Literature
Research and Writing Interests : the transatlantic nineteenth-century history and literature, ecocriticism, gothic novels, history of agriculture
Eliza Holmes received her PhD in English from Harvard and her BA from Bard College. Her dissertation explores the ways that agricultural labor, and land rights, shaped nineteenth-century British and American literature. She has published on topics ranging from John Clare’s poetry to the TV show PEN15. She also holds a certificate of training in small farming from The Farm School.
Jodi Johnson
Fields: British, Irish, Italian, and American Literature; Creative Writing
Research and Writing Interests : The History of Poetry; Creative Writing; Renaissance and Restoration Literature; Victorian Literature; Risorgimento Literature; American Literature; and Irish Literature.
Jodi Johnson is a poet and literary scholar from Ireland. He was educated at Oxford (BA), the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (MFA), and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (PhD), where his dissertation focused on spectral image formation in Renaissance literature. He is a Poetry Editor at Tampa Review , and his work has appeared in The Nation , Prelude , and elsewhere. Prior to Harvard, he taught in the writing departments of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Tampa, the University of South Florida, and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His research is particularly interested in developmental poetics, creative writing, and phenomenology .
Jonah Johnson
Fields: German Studies and Comparative Literature
Research and Writing Interests : Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment German literature and philosophy, lyric, genre theory, reception of classical antiquity
Jonah Johnson received his Ph.D. in German and Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan in 2009. His research focuses on the relationship between literature and philosophy, particularly among German thinkers in the decades following the French Revolution. He is currently working on a book project in which he follows the emergence of tragedy as a discursive strategy within post-Kantian philosophy and explores the consequences of this discourse for early Romantic drama. He has taught courses on literature and culture in the German Department and Great Books Program at Michigan. He holds a B.A. in Ancient Greek Language and Literature from Oberlin College.
Hannah Kauders
Fields: Creative Writing, Translation
Research and Writing Interests : Translation Theory and Craft, Comparative Literature, 20th and 21st Century Latin American and Iberian Literature, Contemporary American Literature, Applied Linguistics
Hannah holds an MFA in writing and literary translation from Columbia. Before coming to Harvard, she taught in the University Writing program at Columbia and the department of Comparative Literature at Barnard College. Her fiction and essays appear in The Drift , Astra Magazine , Gulf Coast Magazine , Fiction International , and more, and she is currently editing a memoir about the intersection of grief and translation. She translates from Spanish with a focus on contemporary Colombian fiction and poetry, queer narratives, and cross-genre literature. .
Isabel Lane
Fields: Comparative Literature, Environmental Humanities
Research and Writing Interests : Russian and American twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction; energy production and nuclear technologies in literature and culture; environmental humanities; prison and incarceration.
Isabel Lane holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale University and a BA in Russian Studies from NYU. Before coming to Harvard, she taught literature and writing at Yale and the Bard Prison Initiative, and she was the founding director of the Boston College Prison Education Program. Isabel's scholarly research focuses on cultural representations of energy production and use (especially nuclear), intersecting human and environmental harm, and incarceration. In parallel with her scholarly research, she is currently working on a public humanities project, Products of Our Environment ( ofourenvironment.org ), that brings together people inside and outside of prison around environmental justice and the arts.
Taleen Mardirossian
Fields: Creative Writing
Research and Writing Interests : Histories of violence, human rights, race, memory, gender, identity
Taleen Mardirossian holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, where she’s taught undergraduate writing. In the early part of her career, she studied law and worked in the legal field with a concentration in criminal law. From teaching street law to creative writing, she has extensive experience designing courses for students in her local community and abroad. She is currently working on a collection of essays about the body and identity.
Ross Martin
Fields: Early and Antebellum U.S. American ideas and culture
Research and Writing Interests : Nineteenth-century science, philosophy, and law
Ross Martin received his PhD from the University of Michigan where, prior to teaching in the Harvard College Writing Program, he was a Frederick Donald Sober Postdoctoral Fellow. As a scholar he focuses on U.S. American intellectual history up to 1865, specializing in the comparative study of philosophical, scientific, and legal ideas.
Keating McKeon
Fields: Classics, Achaemenid Persia
Research and Writing Interests : Ancient autocracy, generic intertextuality, Attic tragedy
Keating McKeon holds his PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard and completed his undergraduate studies in Classics at Columbia and the University of Cambridge. His research is especially concerned with the manifestations and receptions of autocracy in the ancient world. Keating’s current projects approach these concepts from two perspectives: the first probes the role of nostalgia in democratic Athenian constructions of autocracy, while the second explores how epic models for rulership are mediated through the act of Homeric quotation across Greco-Roman antiquity. Keating has published on the Greek adaptation of Old Persian sources as well as on the historian Herodotus’ narrative interest in the performative manipulation of time.
Rachel Meyer
Field: Sociology
Research and Writing Interests : Social movements, social class, labor movements, political sociology, social change, culture and identity, labor and work, globalization, U.S. labor history, qualitative methods
Website : https://scholar.harvard.edu/rachelmeyer
Meyer’s research explores changes in political economy and working-class mobilization. She is interested in the relationship between precarious workers, the neoliberal state, and social change. Her recent publications in Critical Sociology, Political Power & Social Theory and the Journal of Historical Sociology explore how collective action experiences transform working-class consciousness and subjectivity. Recently she has written, additionally, on precarious workers’ movements and on contemporary immigrant mobilizations. She has also published with colleagues at the University of Michigan on the extent and sources of ethical consumption with respect to sweatshops and workers’ rights. Meyer is currently working on a project about the relationship between workplace and community in the mid-20th century American labor movement. In Harvard’s Sociology Department she has been Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Harvard College Fellow, and Lecturer. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2008.
Field: Public Speaking
Research and Writing Interests : Dramaturgy; Theatre History; Performance; Personal Storytelling
Website : https://www.phillipjamesmontano.com/
James Montaño is a dramaturg, educator, critic, and playwright. He has taught theater and public speaking at Harvard University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Brandeis University. He has also worked in literary management and special projects producer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and in education and community engagement at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA. He has served as a dramaturg for productions at ART, Harvard University, and Boston Conservatory as well as freelance projects around New England, New Mexico, and Texas. His artistic training is from UMass Amherst, ART/Harvard, and the Moscow Art Theatre. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Performance as Public Practice at The University of Texas at Austin.
Ryan Napier
Field: British literature
Research and Writing Interests : Nineteenth-century literature; contemporary fiction; theory of the novel; religion and literature
Ryan Napier holds a PhD in English from Tufts University and an M.A.R. in religion and literature from Yale Divinity School. His writing has appeared in Jacobin , and a collection of his short fiction, Four Stories about the Human Face , is available from Bull City Press.
Field: English Literature
Research and Writing Interests : Early modern drama and poetry, Shakespeare, media history, intellectual history
David Nee received a B. A. in English from Columbia University and a Ph. D. in English from Harvard University. He specializes in the English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly Shakespeare. Other research interests include comparative literature, media history, and the history of literary studies.
Lee Nishri-Howitt
Field: Voice, Speech, Accents, Shakespeare, Theater
Lee Nishri-Howitt teaches and coaches vocal production, speech, accent acquisition, and Shakespearean text. He has taught in the Theater, Dance, and Media concentration at Harvard, and at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Emerson College, and the Moscow Art Theatre School. As a coach, he has worked with the American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, and others. Lee is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, and of the masters program in vocal pedagogy at the American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard.
Field: Creative Writing and Literature
Ben Parson received his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he taught first year writing with the UMass Writing Program as well as courses in creative writing for both the UMass English department and the Juniper Institute for Young Writers. Since then, Ben has taught literature and writing at a private boarding school for learning diverse students. His short fiction has been published in The Cape Cod Poetry Review , and he is currently working on a novel.
Brian Pietras
Field: Literature; history; gender and sexuality studies
Research and Writing Interests : Medieval and early modern literature; the history of sexuality; feminist and queer theory; twentieth-century LGBTQ+ cultures
Pietras holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Rutgers University. His scholarly articles have been published in The Journal of the History of Sexuality , Renaissance Drama , Spenser Studies , and elsewhere.
Trained as an early modernist, his work on the history of sexuality has led to a new project that investigates queer life in America before Stonewall. Prior to coming to Harvard, he taught in the Writing Program and Freshman Seminars Program at Princeton.
Kelsey Quigley
Field: Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Psychophysiology
Research and Writing Interests : Clinical and developmental psychology, stress and trauma, resilience, psychophysiology, parenting, gender
Kelsey Quigley completed her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Penn State University, with secondary fields in Developmental Psychology and Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience. In her research, she examines biobehavioral pathways by which early adversity influences health outcomes. In the clinic, she works primarily with children, women, and gender-expansive individuals who have experienced stress or trauma. Quigley has taught courses in the Harvard and Penn State Psychology Departments and as part of the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies. She has worked previously as an Early Childhood Mental Health consultant and a Federal Policy Analyst at Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families in Washington, DC. She earned her AB in Social Studies at Harvard University.
Emilie J. Raymer
Field: The History and Philosophy of Science
Research and Writing Interests : the modern life and environmental sciences, evolutionary theory, intellectual history, philosophy
Emilie holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University, where she taught classes offered through the Program in Behavioral Biology, the Department of the History of Science and Technology, and the Program in Expository Writing. Her scholarly interests include the development of the modern life sciences, evolutionary theory, the environmental humanities, and the philosophy of science. At Harvard, she teaches writing courses focused on biomedical and environmental ethics. She also serves as the faculty director of the Writing and Public Service Initiative and on the Board of First-Year Advisers. She worked for the National Academy of Sciences before she began her doctorate.
Field: Government
Research and Writing Interests : International relations, women and politics, political psychology, group-based violence, survey experiments
Website : www.sparshasaha.com
Sparsha Saha received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the Department of Government at Harvard, and her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation examines the causes of severe protest policing violence in Iran since 1979, and her current research focuses on the effects of gender and dress on women in politics and society.
John Sampson
Fields: American literature
Research and Writing Interests: Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture; urban history; composition and writing center studies.
John Sampson holds a Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins University. He has published articles in NOVEL , American Literary Realism , and the Henry James Review . He also has a book chapter forthcoming in Paris in the Americas , an interdisciplinary edited volume, which traces the French influences on the built environment of Washington, D.C. Before coming to Harvard, he served as Director of the Johns Hopkins Writing Center and was a writing instructor and administrator with the West Point Writing Program.
Adam Scheffler
Fields: Creative Writing, Poetry, and Literature
Research and Writing Interests: Poetry Writing and Criticism
Website: adamscheffler.com
Adam Scheffler received an AB in English from Harvard, an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English from Harvard. He has taught courses at Harvard and the University of Iowa on such topics as poetry writing, science fiction, realist fiction, and love and madness in literature. He is the author of two books of poems, A Dog’s Life (2016) and Heartworm (2023), and his poems appear in numerous literary journals. He is also currently working on a book of literary criticism about the poet James Wright; he was a resident tutor in Currier house for five years.
Research and Writing Interests: Nonfiction, autofiction, satire, and cultural criticism
Ian holds an M.F.A. from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and B.A. degrees in History and Italian Studies from Brown University. Before coming to Harvard, he taught courses on creative nonfiction and rhetoric at the University of Iowa and helped lead the Brown University Writing Fellows Program. His work has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books , DIAGRAM , Atlas Obscura , and Artsy , among other publications. He is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Gillian Sinnott
Field: Law; political theory
Research and Writing Interests: Constitutional law; theories of liberalism; privacy
Gillian Sinnott received her undergraduate degree from University College Dublin. She also has an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Her doctoral dissertation examined the application of the political philosophy of John Rawls to questions in constitutional law. Prior to joining the Writing Program, she practiced law in New York and London.
Stephen Spencer
Research and Writing Interests: Early modern literature; Gender, sexuality, and affect studies; Utopian/dystopian literature; History of science fiction
Stephen Spencer is a scholar-teacher focusing on early modern literature. He holds a PhD in English from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research investigates the gender(ed) politics of religious affect in Milton and his contemporaries. He has published on John Donne's figuration of the hermaphrodite and Andrew Marvell's poetry of weeping.
Tracy Strauss
Field: Creative Writing, Literature, and Film
Research and Writing Interests: trauma literature and film, the bildungsroman, prose and poetry of war, screenplay as dramatic literature, literary adaptations, public humanities
Tracy Strauss holds an M.F.A. in Film from Boston University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Lesley University. She is the author of I Just Haven’t Met You Yet , a memoir that landed on Harvard Bookstore’s “Bestseller Wall” in 2019. Former essays editor of The Rumpus , she has written creative nonfiction, scholarly works, and writing craft articles for publications such as Newsweek , Oprah Magazine , Glamour , New York Magazine , Ploughshares , Poets & Writers Magazine , Writer’s Digest Magazine , Publishers Weekly , The Southampton Review, Cognoscenti, and War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities . She has also been a guest speaker on local and national television talk shows, podcasts, and Ms. Magazine’s Facebook “Live Q&A."
Zachary Stuart
Field: Public Speaking, Film/Video, Mulit-arts education, Social Justice
Zachary Stuart has worked in arts education and film production for 20 years in the Boston area. He was Lead-facilitator and curriculum officer for the innovative theater education program Urban Improv and the Director of the theater department at CAAP summer arts Experience in Brookline. He produced the documentary Savage Memory about the Early anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski and is currently finishing post production on a new Feature documentary Die Before You Die , looking at female leadership in Islamic mysticism. With a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, youth development and social justice, the public speaking component of his work relies heavily on embodied pedagogy and storytelling. He has also taught and developed curriculum in ceramics and photography with a fine art and community building orientation, mainly working with youth and urban communities.
Julia Tejblum
Fields: British Literature, Romanticism, poetry and poetics, narrative theory
Julia Tejblum holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Harvard, an M.A. from Oxford University, where she studied as a Clarendon Scholar, and a B.A. in English and Theater Arts from Brandeis University. Her current research focuses on the relationship between autobiography and form in Romantic and Victorian poetry. She has published criticism and reviews in Essays in Criticism, Romanticism, and The Wordsworth Circle. Other research interests include travel writing, narrative theory, literature and science, and literary influence.
Elliott Turley
Field: Theatre, Literature
Research and Writing Interests: Modern Tragicomedy, Theatre History and Theory, Performance Studies, Professional Rhetoric, Pedagogy
Elliott Turley received his PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018. Before coming to Harvard, he taught English, writing, and theatre classes at the University of California San Diego, Florida State University, UT-Austin, and secondary schools. His scholarly work can be found in Modern Drama , the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism , and Modern Language Quarterly , and he has published book and performance reviews in Theatre Survey and PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art . He is currently at work on a book on modern tragicomedy and has an article on Suzan-Lori Parks’s rewriting of American myth forthcoming in Modern Drama .
Peter Vilbig
Fields: Creative writing, journalism, songwriting
Research and Writing Interests : fiction, songwriting
Peter Vilbig has covered war and refugees in Central America as a stringer for The Boston Globe , crime and politics as a staff writer for the Miami Herald , and the Congress and federal agencies as an investigative reporter for a Washington DC-based news service distributed to 200 papers nationally. His short fiction has appeared in Tin House , Shenandoah , and 3:AM Magazine, among many other publications in the US and Europe. He holds an MFA from Columbia University and an MA in English teaching from Brooklyn College and has taught first-year writing at New York University and CUNY’s Baruch College. As a public high school teacher in New York City, he taught advanced placement English at Midwood High School in Brooklyn. Most recently he has been writing songs and has performed in small venues in New York and Providence, and at the Rhode Island Folk Festival.
Rob Willison
Fields: Social Science
Research and Writing Interests: Philosophy of Language, Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Education
Rob Willison is a philosopher with broad interests, but his recent research has focused on philosophy of language and ethics—especially where those fields intersect. He has published work on the nature and ethics of irony, and has ongoing projects on the nature of concepts, and on the ways that a theory of meaning in general can be used to understand meaning’s particular kinds (for example, linguistic meaning and meaning in life). He also has long-standing interests in the philosophy of education, democratic theory, and the philosophy of social science. Before joining Expos, Rob served as a Lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard; as the Associate Director of the Parr Center for Ethics and Research; Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UNC-Chapel Hill; as the Director of Education Policy for a New York City Council Member; and as a high school Social Studies teacher in the New York City public schools. He has also worked as a consultant for UNICEF, co-leading a Social Norms Workshop addressing violence against women and children in Harare, Zimbabwe, and helping to develop “A Fieldworker’s Toolkit for Social Change.” Rob received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017, and his A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard in 2003.
Mande Zecca
Fields: American literature & creative writing
Research and Writing Interests : American modernist and postwar literature; poetry and poetics; material culture and book history; radical political movements; literary subcultures
Mande Zecca holds a Ph.D. in English from Johns Hopkins University, an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University. Before coming to Harvard, she taught in the Johns Hopkins Program in Expository Writing for four years, two of them as a postdoctoral fellow. She writes poetry and scholarship about poetry, the latter in the form of a book project: Undersongs: Left Elegies and the Politics of Community . She’s also published writing (both scholarly and creative) in Modernism/modernity , Post45 , Jacket2 , Ploughshares , Colorado Review , CutBank , and elsewhere. Her chapbook of poems, Pace Arcadia , was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2017.
Harvard Creative Writing
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Fall 2024 Creative Writing Course Application Information
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Please submit your completed application(s) by 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, April 7. LATE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
There are absolutely no exceptions to this deadline; please do not contact the instructor or the department if you miss this deadline, simply apply again next term. Applications may time out if you leave them open long enough, so keep this in mind (don't click the submit button at 11:59 pm; leave adequate time to troubleshoot in case there are submission issues).
· When creating a Submittable account, please use your Harvard email address, not your personal account.
· You must submit a separate application to each course (up to 4), using the application links below. Please be sure to upload the appropriate materials for each course, and provide the same course preference order on each application. Your first choice workshop must be ranked first on each application, and so on. Any applications with inconsistent rankings will be disqualified.
· Note to students outside of FAS and HDS: if your registration timeline does not conform to that of FAS, please still follow the application instructions and timeline listed on this page, and if admitted, you will be permitted to cross-register and enroll when your registration period begins.
· You may not edit or resubmit an application once you have applied. Please be sure your application materials are finalized and accurate before submitting.
· Students may take only one creative writing courses per semester. A course may be repeated provided the student has the permission of the instructor and the Director of Undergraduate Studies of the Department.
· Harvard affiliates who are unable to enroll in creative workshops for official academic credit are still welcome and encouraged to apply but will only be reviewed once degree-seeking undergraduate and graduate students are considered. Non-credit seeking students are asked to indicate this status in their letter of interest, and if admitted are expected to fully engage and participate in the workshop.
· Students will be notified of application decisions by 5:00 pm on Friday, April 12 and will receive a separate email notification for each course once decisions have been made. Each student can be admitted to only one course. The creative writing faculty meets to discuss all applications to prevent multiple acceptances. Applicants not admitted to a workshop on April 12 will be considered for spots that open up in workshops after the initial notifications have been sent out. Students will be notified by the English Department should a professor wish to offer them an open spot.
*Some creative writing workshops will hold a few spots for the late August/early September Fall 2024 course registration period for incoming first-semester students. Students already on the waitlist will still be in consideration, but decisions for these spots will not be made until late August 2024. A note will be added indicating which workshops are holding spots at the end of their individual Submittable course descriptions as well as at the end of their course descriptions on the Harvard English Department website: https://english.fas.harvard.edu/english-courses .
· We suggest adding [email protected] to your email contacts to ensure any notifications (submission confirmations and application decisions) reach your inbox.
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English 330. G2 Proseminar
Spring 2024: Instructor: John Stauffer Wednesday, 12:45-2:45am | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Spring 2025: Instructor: Martin Puchner TBD | Location: TBD
This second-year proseminar has a two-part focus: it introduces students to the craft of scholarly publishing by helping them revise a research paper for publication in a peer-reviewed journal by the end of the course. It thus gives students the tools to begin publishing early in their career. It also introduces students to the growing array of alternative careers in the humanities by exposing them to the work of scholars who are leaders in fields such as editing, curating, and digital humanities.
Note: Open to English graduate students only. Prerequisite: For G2+ students
English 320. G1 Proseminar
Spring 2024: Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 3:45-5:45pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Spring 2025: Instructor: Tara K. Menon TBD | Location: TBD
The first-year proseminar (taken in the spring semester of the first year) introduces students to the theories, methods, and history of English as a discipline, and contemporary debates in English studies. The readings feature classic texts in all fields, drawn from the General Exam list. This first-year proseminar helps students prepare for the General Exam (taken at the beginning of their second year); it gives them a broad knowledge for teaching and writing outside their specialty; and it builds an intellectual and cultural community among first-year students.
Note: This seminar is only for first year graduate students in the English Department.
Humanities 10b. A Humanities Colloquium: From James Joyce to Homer
Spring 2024: Instructors: David Elmer , Namwali Serpell , David Armitage , Glenda Carpio , Tara K. Menon , Kelly Mee Rich Tuesday, 10:30-11:45 am | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Course Site Spring 2025: TBD
2,500 years of essential works, taught by six professors. Humanities 10b will likely include works by Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Austen, Du Bois and Joyce, along with the Book of Genesis. One 75-minute lecture plus a 75-minute discussion seminar led by the professors every week. Students will receive instruction in critical writing one hour a week, in writing labs and individual conferences. Students also have opportunities to participate in a range of cultural experiences, ranging from plays and musical events to museum and library collections.
Note: The course is open only to first-year students who have completed Humanities 10a. Students who complete Humanities 10a meet the Harvard College Curriculum divisional distribution requirement for Arts & Humanities. Students who take both Humanities 10a and Humanities 10b fulfill the College Writing requirement. This is the only course outside of Expository Writing that satisfies the College Writing requirement. No auditors. The course may not be taken Pass/Fail.
English 178x. The American Novel: Dreiser to the Present
Instructor: Philip Fisher Monday & Wednesday, 10:30-11:45am | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Course Site A survey of the 20th-century novel, its forms, patterns of ideas, techniques, cultural context, rivalry with film and radio, short story, and fact. Wharton, Age of Innocence ; Cather, My Antonia ; Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms and stories; Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury and stories; Ellison, Invisible Man ; Nabokov, Lolita ; Robinson, Housekeeping ; Salinger, Catcher in the Rye and stories; Ha Jin, Waiting; Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station. Stories by James, London, Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Gaitskill, Wallace, Beattie, Lahiri, and Ford. This course satisfies the “1900-2000 Guided Elective" requirement for English concentrators and Secondary Field students.
English 290mh. Migration and the Humanities
Instructor: Homi Bhabha Spring 2024: Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students Course Site Spring 2025: TBD
By focusing on literary narratives, cultural representations, and critical theories, this course explores ways in which issues related to migration create rich and complex interdisciplinary conversations. How do humanistic disciplines address these issues—human rights, cultural translation, global justice, security, citizenship, social discrimination, biopolitics—and what contributions do they make to the “home” disciplines of migration studies such as law, political science, and sociology? How do migration narratives compel us to revise our concepts of culture, polity, neighborliness, and community? We will explore diverse aspects of migration from existential, ethical, and philosophical perspectives while engaging with specific regional and political histories. Note: Cannot be taken for credit if ROM-STD 290 already complete.
English 99r. Senior Tutorial
Supervised individual tutorial in an independent scholarly or critical subject.
Students on the honors thesis track will register for English 99r in both the fall and spring terms.
English 98r. Junior Tutorial
Spring 2024 Junior Tutorials
The Literary Ensemble: Form, Sociality, Politics (Emma Adler) The Feminist YA Novel (Joani Etskovitz) Disaster and Resilience in 20th-Century and Contemporary Environmental Literature (Mary Galli) Home in America: 20th and 21st Century Immigrant Fiction (Sophia Gatzionis) American Girls: Representations of Girlhood in the 20th-Century American Novel (Elinor Hitt) Virginia Woolf: Writing Fiction and History at the Margins (Katherine Horgan) Women, Emotion Work, and the Emotional Labors of Literature (Shalisa James) Science Fictional and Magical Realities (Karina Mathew) Sentimental Matters: Race, Embodiment, and Affect in 19th-Century America (Wyatt Sarafin)
Junior Tutorial assignments will be made in July/August 2023. Junior tutorial preference forms were distrubuted to concentrators on July 17 and are due by July 31. If you didn't receive this form and would like to be considered for tutorial enrollment, please contact Lauren Bimmler.
English 91r. Supervised Reading and Research
The Supervising Reading and Research tutorial is a type of student-driven independent study offering individual instruction in subjects of special interest that cannot be studied in regular courses. English 91r is supervised by a member of the English Department faculty. It is a graded course and may not be taken more than twice, and only once for concentration credit. Students must submit a proposal and get approval from the faculty member with whom they wish to work.
Proposed syllabi and faculty approval must be submitted and verified by the English Department Undergraduate Office by the Course Registration Deadline.
Fall 2024 Junior Tutorials
Banned Books: Censorship, Ethics and Twentieth-Century Literature (Andrew Koenig) Science Fictional and Magical Realities (Karina Mathew) Black Literature and the Ethics of Betrayal (Jordan Taliha McDonald) Monsters & Monstrosity (Emily Sun) Religion and Transcendentalism: Douglass, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Whitman (Adam Walker)
Junior Tutorial assignments will be made in early April 2024. Junior tutorial preference forms were distrubuted to concentrators on March 27 and are due by April 3. If you didn't receive this form and would like to be considered for tutorial enrollment, please contact Lauren Bimmler.
Fall 2023 Junior Tutorials
Provisional Magic: Trends in Experimental Contemporary Poetry (Nicholas Belmore) Human, Mind, Machine: Artificial Intelligence from Antiquity to AI (Vanessa Braganza) Crime Fiction (Sarah Liu) Critical Approaches to the Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (Joseph Shack) A Variety of Unfreedoms: 20th and 21st Century Narratives of Slavery, Neo-Slavery, and Emancipation (Denson Staples)
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The English major instills a passion for learning, sharing ideas, and expressing yourself through writing. Reading and responding to a range of genres–poetry, drama, film, novels, creative nonfiction, and more. You’ll gain valuable skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, and effective communication. Developing these skills as an English major can be the first step toward a career in any field.
You can choose to concentrate on one of three tracks in the major: literature, writing, or teacher education. Enrollments in English courses are kept small to allow professors and students to get to know each other in conversation and to allow professors to pay close attention to the development of students’ writing.
The English Department is committed to helping you:
- Become a more sophisticated reader and flexible writer
- Learn how to actively listen and more more effective in speaking
- Be a more creative and critical thinker
- Develop moral imagination, empathy, and a sense of justice
- Gain a sense of vocation, self-awareness, and agency that can translate skills and practices to a professional environment
- Explore a diversity of perspectives on experience
- Learn more about the English Major/Minor
- Explore the Journalism Minor
Major/Minor Requirements
9 courses, 36 credit hours
- ENG 230: How Literature Works
- ENG 330: Literature for Life
- ENG 360: Shakespeare
- ENG 361: Medieval Literature
- ENG 231: Film
- ENG 233: Graphic Narratives
- ENG 234: Young Adult Literature
- ENG 240: Africana Women’s Writing
- ENG 244: Literature and Disability
- ENG 245: Literature and Gender
- ENG 251: African-American Literature
- ENG 263: In “Frankenstein’s” Footsteps: The Keats-Shelley Circle in London, Geneva, and Italy (study-abroad)
- ENG 331: Film in Focus
- ENG 341: American English and Language Policy
- ENG 350: American Literary Traditions
- ENG 351: British Literary Traditions, 1800-present
- ENG 211: Writing for Media
- ENG 212: Creative Writing 1
- ENG 214: Professional and Technical Writing
- ENG 221: Rhetoric and Persuasion
- ENG 312: Creative Writing 2
- ENG 140: World Literature
- ENG 243: Literature of African Peoples
- ENG 485: English Seminar
- 2 additional 4-credit-hour English courses of the student’s choice, including ENG 130
Students may, with the recommendation of their advisors, petition the English Department Head to have one literature course taken outside the department count as an elective course. No courses can count for two areas within the major. For instance, ENG 240: Africana Women’s Writing can fulfill either the Voices & Visions requirement or the World Literature requirement, but it cannot fulfill both.
5 courses, 20 credit hours
- ENG 352: Early American Literary Traditions
- 1 additional 4-credit-hour English course of the student’s choice, including ENG 130
A student with an English major may not also earn a Writing minor.
8 classes, 21-24 credit hours
- COMS 133: Mass Media
- JOUR 100: News Practicum (x2)
- JOUR 380: Internship (1-4 credit hours)
- 3 additional courses from Art, Communication Studies, English and/or Political Science
Student writers at Luther are members of a vibrant and supportive community. Many choose to join Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society, which gives them the opportunity to present critical and creative work at the society’s annual conference. Others publish their work in The Oneota Review , Luther’s student literary magazine, or work as staff writers for the student newspaper, CHIPS. Still others enter work in the ACM’s Nick Adams Short Story Contest, present at on-campus conferences like the Student Research Symposium or “The Reformation of Everything” Symposium, or even submit their work for publication to national journals, as Hannah Lund did with her six-word story “Dinner Date,” which appeared in Narrative . When writers visit campus–like Todd Boss, Rob Spillman, and Camille Dungy– students have the chance to talk with these authors in class and in personal conferences.
Although you can be a writer without ever publishing a word, many students (and not only English majors) choose to take creative writing courses, earn a writing emphasis, and/or work toward publication while at Luther and beyond. Taking creative writing courses can lead to an MFA program in writing and/or the publication of a book–just ask our alums Keith Lesmeister (’01) author of We Could’ve Been Happy Here or Jill Osier (’96), author of Should Our Undoing Come Down Upon Us White: Poems . It can also help you develop a range of writing skills to be used in a career as a lawyer, pastor, or teacher, or as a writer for companies, foundations, and newspapers.
Course Offerings
English 212: introduction to creative writing (poetry and fiction) english 312: advanced creative writing (poetry and fiction).
Luther’s flagship creative writing courses focus on the principles of delight and design by uniting the genres of poetry and short fiction. In the same semester, students hone their craft by reading, completing workshops, discussions, and a series of experiments, discovering not just how their work in each genre can flower, but also how the genres can cross-pollinate! Students of all majors have found their voices through a variety of activities in the introductory creative writing course; including trips to Decorah’s Vesterheim Museum and the publication of class anthologies. Members of the Advanced course have submitted their work to literary journals and performed their work onstage in an annual concert, “Music in the Shape of a Pear,” staged in collaboration with Luther’s Music Department. Skype chats with the editors of literary journals to which Advanced students are asked to subscribe – such as Tin House and Ploughshares – are a regular feature of the Advanced course.
English 213: Creative Writing: Nonfiction
English 213 explores a capacious and fascinating genre: creative nonfiction. If you’ve read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, Joan Didion’s The White Album, Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, or Nick Flynn’s memoir of his alcoholic, homeless father, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, you’ve read creative nonfiction – and if you keep a diary, you’ve written it. You may write anything from personal narratives, literary journalism, and nature writing to spiritual essays or family memoirs in this course. What you learn about writing and about yourself will definitely leave you challenged and changed.
Independent Study and Senior Projects: Students who have completed the appropriate courses in creative writing may register to do an independent writing project with a faculty member. Students who have completed the writing courses in Plan II of the major may elect to complete a senior project in poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction.
For English Majors pursuing secondary-level teaching (English major + Secondary Education minor).
Ideally, students begin the English major and Secondary Education minor in their first year. However, if you decide to begin at the start of your second year, you can still complete the degree and teaching certification in a total of four years. This will require careful planning with your advisor in English and/or Education.
See the Education Department’s Program Information page for details on the Secondary Education minor. Also on this page, the Education Department has published guidance on which courses to take as you fulfill your English major requirements.
Teaching certification
Luther College certifies students for teaching in the State of Iowa. The Luther program is updated regularly to insure that it meets current state requirements and that students can acquire an Iowa license at the completion of their college academic program. We encourage students to apply for the Iowa license even if they might be planning to teach in another state and will acquire a second state license.
Requirements for teaching licensure are always changing. Luther attempts to keep up with the changes in neighboring states but is not responsible for reporting new official requirements. Students should consult the Education Department website and the Department of Education website for any state in which they wish to be certified to teach.
For further information about the English major, contact English Department head Kate Narveson at [email protected] . All English majors interested in secondary education should make contact with Jennifer Olufsen, Teacher Certification Officer (Koren 115), as soon as they can, to get information and updates.
Five students and faculty advisor Marie Drews will attend the 2024 conference, presenting both critical analysis and creative writing. The students, all English majors or minors, are members of Luther College’s Sigma Tau Delta chapter. The paper topics range from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to twentieth century poetry and contemporary film. Students will also read from their own short stories.
In 2023, Luther College sent ten students to the conference–one of the largest contingents attending. Luther students included Reagan Anania (’23, Des Moines), Anastasia Baldus (’24, Charles City, IA), Addie Craig (’23,Maquoketa, IA), Christina Dressler (’23, Racine, WI), Mia Irving (’24, Coralville, IA), Grace James (’23, Waukesha, WI), Ethan Kober (’24, Cedar Falls, IA), Scott Rust (’24, Hudson, WI), Amy Webb (’24, Waverly, IA), and Clara Wodny (’25, Duluth, MN).
Luther College professor of English Martin Klammer, who accompanied the students, said, “What was so impressive about the Luther contingent was not only the quality of their papers, but the way they supported each other. They came to each other’s presentations, even at 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning! The students learned so much, enjoyed themselves, and really came together as a group.”
Student travel, hotel, and registration costs are supported by grants from the Office of the Provost, the Center for Ethics and Public Engagement, and the English Department.
The English Department is bringing Sheri Brenden ‘81, author of Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX, to speak at Luther College on April 11 at 7 p.m. in the Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall, along with her sister Peg. In her book, Sheri, a Luther English major, covers Peg’s involvement in a landmark 1973 civil rights lawsuit to allow equal access to sports for women. Both Brenden sisters graduated from Luther College and participated in sports during the early Title IX era.
The talk is hosted and sponsored by the English department at Luther College, with additional support from The Center for Ethics and Public Engagement (CEPE) and from the law and values program.
The book recalls the courtroom battle before Federal District Court Judge Miles Lord and the subsequent appeals to the Eighth Circuit. The ruling opened the way for Peg to compete as a senior for her high school. In their talk, the Brendens will weave in their family’s and broader women’s history to remind the audience of the wider implications for female students during the era.
The book had its genesis when Sheri Brenden became concerned that an important story about women in sport risked being lost. She drew on skills learned as a Luther English major, one-time reporter for the St. Cloud Daily Times, and research librarian for two of Minnesota’s largest law firms. To preserve the history, she interviewed teammates, coaches, lawyers and others associated with her sister’s gender-equity case.
The talk is free and open to the general public. A reception will follow.
Poet and translator Mary Jane White gave a talk on Wednesday, March 6 that got us all thinking a whole new way about our own writing, and about what it means to connect with others through literature. White has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers Workshop and has received NEH grants for both poetry and translation, and has recently published an acclaimed translation of the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva. White shared the pleasures and challenges of literary translation, speaking on how translation hones a poet’s skill as well as what opportunities are out there for writers in the world of translating. The event started with pizza and a translation activity that had people muttering “is that a metaphor or can she really mean ‘mildew’?”
Lindsey Row-Heyveld, Associate Professor of English, has been awarded the 2023-25 research fellowship in the Center for Ethics and Public Engagement (CEPE. Her project will combine a scholarly component (organizing a conference and collection of essays) and a campus component (a discussion group on able-bodiedness, ableism and health humanities).
Professor Row-Heyveld describes the impetus behind her project in this way:
Studying the history of disability and ableism and practicing the methodologies of disability studies and disability justice has never been more essential for engaged, ethical citizens. Following the mass disabling event of the Covid-19 pandemic, we find ourselves constantly facing questions about who deserves to be part of our community, how we ought to care for immunocompromised and disabled people, and how we balance safety and freedom. Although focused on the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries, [the conference] “Ableism and Able-bodiedness: Past and Present” directly addresses many of these same questions we find ourselves wrestling with today. Further, the source of many of these issues is the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Scholars increasingly recognize the Reformation as a foundational event in the construction of disability as a category of identity, and the English Poor Laws of Queen Elizabeth I, some of the very earliest disability-specific legislation, as the model for American disability policy even today.
Professor Row-Heyveld will involve the Luther Disability Alliance and the Center for Intercultural Engagement and Support in her project, as well as the Nursing program, Global Health, Identity Studies, the Rochester semester, the Decorah Public Library, and the Decorah Human Rights Commission.
Some updates from the English major class of 2023:
- Gideon Perez received a 2023-24 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in the Slovak Republic
- Reagan Anania has been accepted to the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science
- Jack Geadelman has been accepted to the University of Iowa School of Law
- Grace James has been accepted to, among others, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science
Ethan Kober has been accepted to, among others, Harvard’s Divinity School, Union Theological Seminary, and the Candler Theological Seminary of Emory University.
Writers Festival
Every other year, we welcome a wide range of authors and readers to campus for the Luther College Writers Festival.
Scholarships
Each year the department sends out an updated letter to all English grads, with each faculty member summarizing his or her past year of teaching, research, writing, and living. Alums tell us they can’t wait to get the letter, and we often get precious updates on their life stories.
Our letters also remind them how to donate to English Department special funds, which help us and our students go to conferences to present papers and creative work. We’d love to welcome you, as a donor, to our strong and creative program.
Student Scholarships
Scholarships for English majors have been established in memory of Iver Opstad, Freemann and Marie Hoffland Sampson, Christian E. and Hazel S. Bale, John and Mabel Bale, and Martin and Mary Lou Mohr.
The Dennis M. Jones Endowed Fund for English
Established in 1991 to honor former colleague Dennis Jones, this endowment fund supports student awards, special library purchases, African-American literature, student travel to conferences, and other English department purposes.
The Young Scholars Endowment in English
Established in 2008 to honor the distinguished teaching careers of emeriti professors of English Dennis Jones (deceased), John Bale, Martin Mohr, Mary Hull Mohr, and Harland Nelson (pictured above, along with former English Professor Gracia Grindal, now Professor at Luther Seminary [center]), these funds help Luther’s English faculty to teach and advise Luther students and assist students as they engage with the larger world of English studies. In particular, this endowment fund provides awards to support research experience for students and junior faculty members of the English department. This endowment fund also supplements funds for travel to regional and national conferences for presenting academic and creative work. Susan Hale has provided a generous fund for matching gifts to this endowment.
Private Gifts
Friends of the English department have supported a small fund that allows for occasional special needs like conference attendance, campus visitors, and student presentations.
Luther College English students and faculty are recognized for excellent work, on and off campus. Our evidence:
- An active chapter of the English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta. Members regularly attend the annual national convention (with financial support from the Provost’s Office and the department), and win scholarships and awards.
- Election to membership in Phi Beta Kappa.
- Presentations at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Our recent presenters have been Addie Craig (2022) and Kari Jacobson (2021).
- National fellowship recipients. Most recently, Gideon Perez was awarded a Fulbright to the Slovak Republic for 2023-24, and Annika Dome won a Fulbright to the University of Agder in Norway for the 2022-23 academic year.
- Outstanding authors. Recent examples: Sheri Brenden ’82 published Break Point (Univ. of MN Press 2023), and Margaret Yapp’s Green for Luck comes out in April 2024 from EastOver Press. Keith Lesmeister’s Mississippi River Museum (2023) followed up his highly praised We Could Have Been Happy Here . Jill Osier ’96 won the Yale Younger Poets prize for The Solace Is Not the Lullaby (Yale Books, 2020). Holly Norton ’90 published Letting Go , Finishing Line Press (2017).
- Collaborative student/faculty research. Examples: Kari Jacobson ’21 conducted summer research that made possible Prof. Kate Narveson’s “Assume a Virtue if You Have It Not: Hamlet and Virtue Ethics,” in Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook , ed. Julia Reinhard Lupton and Donovan Sherman (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Annika Dome ’22 served as editorial assistant for Prof. Amy Weldon’s textbook Advanced Fiction Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). And for a story on Prof. Andy Hageman’s collaboration with Emma Busch ’20, in the Luther Magazine.
- Faculty scholarship: Book publications include Amy Weldon’s Advanced Fiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), which includes writing by Luther students, and Eldorado, Iowa: A Novel (Bowen Press, 2019), Lindsey Row-Heyveld’s Dissembling Disability in Early Modern English Drama (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Kate Narveson’s Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2012), and Martin Klammer’s In the Dark With My Dress on Fire (Jacana, 2010). Kate Narveson is past president of the John Donne Society, and faculty also serve on editorial boards for scholarly journals and regularly present their research at national and international conferences,
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Spring ’24 creative writing open house, april 3, 2024.
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On March 25 th , several Duke English faculty and more than 20 undergraduates met to discuss “Sex, Money, Death (and PIZZA): Why you should be a Creative Writing Minor.”
Each semester, the Duke English Department hosts an Open House for students to learn about the craft of creative writing from faculty members whose areas of expertise include poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Faculty share their writing experiences, what attracted them to a particular genre, how they approach writing, what courses they teach, and a sense of their teaching styles.
The theme for the Spring ’24 Creative Writing Open House is a play on the saying that every book has either sex, money, or death as a subject matter. Pizza was added as an extra incentive and a pre-dinner snack. To begin this event, each panelist introduced themself and spoke about the creative writing courses they will teach next semester. Then, each one read a work that related to either sex, money, or death.
Panelists asked questions about what students want to learn. Professor Amin Ahmad asked why they take creative writing classes.
"I'm not pursuing a major related to writing, but I've always been amazed by what writing can do, whether creating mental images, producing emotional responses, or conveying ideas profoundly and thoroughly. Put simply, I believe that writing can often be the best way to express what it's like to experience something. So, while I wouldn't consider myself to be a writer, at least not right now, I do try to find ways to be as close to that world as possible and to put myself in situations where I can learn from those who have extensive experience with and deep knowledge of the craft. – Zane Harrison, '24 , Computer Science and English minor
Professor JP Gritton asked what Creative Writing courses students would like added to ensure that Duke English provides classes that meet their needs and interests. Professor Akhil Sharma encouraged students to visit professors during their office hours, especially if that professor is knowledgeable in an area that they are curious about or if they want to simply chat with them outside the classroom setting. He invited students to stop for a visit even if they are not currently taking a class with that faculty member.
Some of the poets on the panel shared how their love for poetry originated from an interest in another genre, and fiction writers expressed how they often envy those who have perfected the art of poetry. This discussion touched on how a person’s literary genre preference can transcend as one learns more about what they like and finds their niche. As Professor Ahmad noted, a short story may be the warm-up for a forthcoming novel.
Faculty provided a range of writing advice. Professor Joe Donahue suggested that students consider what their writing is saying beyond the words they select for the page. Professor Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Visiting Blackburn Artist in Residence, spoke about opportunities to work on a genre, collection, or a piece beyond the traditional classroom opportunity, whether it is the focus of an Independent Studies course or simply asking for a professor's assistance on a piece that they are passionate about. Professor Donahue added that students can also consider an honors project centered around a piece or collection of writing that they would like to craft into something greater than an assignment.
The panel discussed their experiences with Master in Fine Art (MFA) programs and other professional development they have participated in during their creative writing careers. They encouraged students interested in creative writing to take advantage of Duke English courses, faculty office hours, and opportunities to write and connect with good writing. They hammered home the importance of surrounding oneself with other good writers to continuously improve their craft.
Creative Writing Course for Fall ’24
- ENGLISH 110S.01 - Intro to Creative Writing - Cathy Shuman
- ENGLISH 110S.02 - Intro to Creative Writing - JP Gritton
- ENGLISH 110S.03 - Intro to Creative Writing - Frances Leviston
- ENGLISH 220S.01 - Intro to The Writing of Poetry - Frances Leviston
- ENGLISH 220S.02 - Intro to The Writing of Poetry – Toby Martinez de las Rivas
- ENGLISH 221S.01 - Intro to The Writing of Fiction: Writing Without Fear - Amin Ahmad
- ENGLISH 221S.02 - Intro to The Writing of Fiction - Mesha Maren
- ENGLISH 222S.01 - Intro to The Writing of Creative Nonfiction: Creating Reality - Cathy Shuman
- ENGLISH 290S-4.01 – Special Topics in Creative Writing: From Memoir to Fiction – Akhil Sharma
- ENGLISH 290S - 4.61 – Special Topics in Creative Writing – Poetry and the Archive – Toby Martinez de las Rivas
- ENGLISH 320S.01 - Intermediate Workshop: Writing of Poetry - Joseph Donahue
- ENGLISH 322S.01 - Intermediate Workshop: Writing of Creative Nonfiction Art of The Personal Essay - Faulkner Fox
- ENGLISH 420S.01 - Advanced Workshop in Writing of Poetry - Nathaniel Mackey
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Write of Passage 2024 showcases the work and talent of the Spring 2024 graduating students of UCF’s creative writing MFA graduate program.
This reading will feature works by Justin Ahlquist, Camila Cal Mello, Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira, Kristi Dao, Colleen Dieckmann, Kianna Greene, Michelle Munoz, Spencer Reynolds, Jessa Santiago, Dani Sarta and Nicholas Stovel.
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- The Cypress Dome , UCF’s undergraduate student literary journal
- Writers in the Sun, UCF’s visiting writers’ series
- UCF Creative Writing Faculty Book Display
- Zeppelin Books and Burrow Press Display
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The vital presence of creative writing in the English Department is reflected by our many distinguished authors who teach our workshops. We offer courses each term in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, and television writing. Our workshops are small, usually no more than twelve students, and offer writers an opportunity to focus intensively on one genre.
The English Department is proud to be a home for creative writing at Harvard. The vital presence of creative writing in the department is reflected by our many distinguished authors who offer small, intensive workshops each term in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, screenwriting, playwriting, and television writing.
Additionally, please submit 3-5 pages of journalism or narrative nonfiction or, if you have not yet written much nonfiction, an equal number of pages of narrative fiction. English CAKV. Fiction Workshop: Writing from the First-Person Point of View. Instructor: Andrew Krivak. Tuesday, 9:00-11:45 1m | Location: TBD.
Welcome from the Director of Undergraduate Studies. What makes the English Department such a welcoming home? It's the people. As a concentrator you'll find a supportive community energized by a shared dedication to English-langauge literature produced over the past 1200 years. Whether it is a playwright leading a creative writing workshop ...
Chair of the Department of English Harvard College Professor Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature . Education: B.A., Vassar (1991) ... Interests: Poetry and Creative Nonfiction writing; visual... Read more about Melissa Cundieff. Office: Office: Bow Street 340. [email protected] . Tuesdays 10am-1pm.
The course uniquely blends literary study and creative writing—students will analyze literature and make literature. The conviction that these practices are complementary will inform our approach to readings and course assignments. Note: English 10 is one of the
Students enrolled in the Master of Liberal Arts program in Creative Writing & Literature will develop skills in creative writing and literary analysis through literature courses and writing workshops in fiction, screenwriting, poetry, and nonfiction. Through online group courses and one-on-one tutorials, as well as a week on campus, students ...
Welcome from the Director of Graduate Studies. Our graduate students come from across the globe, with a huge range of life experiences, tastes, and talents. Graduate education in the Harvard English Department is about helping each of our unique students become the scholar, teacher, writer, reader, mentor, and citizen they want to be.
On-Campus Experience. One 1- or 3-week residency in summer. Tuition. $3,220 per course. Unlock your creative potential and hone your unique voice. Build a strong foundation in literary criticism and writing across multiple genres — including fiction, nonfiction, and drama — in our live online writing and literature program with an in-person ...
Applications for the English Department's Creative Writing Workshops are now open for the Spring 2022 semester. These workshops are open to all Harvard undergraduate and graduate students. The deadline for submitting applications is 11:59 pm ET on Saturday, January 15. Most workshops require cover letters and writing samples.
Guidelines for Admission. Application for admission to the Harvard English Graduate Program is completed through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences . The application deadline for 2023-2024 admission is January 5th, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. For a full list of application requirements and instructions for the application process, please see ...
In the Department of English, students think about, study and write about the artful ways in which people can and do use words, from thousand-year-old epics about fighting monsters to the intimate poems and the public addresses of our own time.The department is also the academic home at Harvard for creative writers and creative writing. Undergraduates may pursue a Concentration and Second
The writing samples must be examples of critical writing (rather than creative writing) on subjects directly related to English. ... as well as how the Harvard Department of English might help in attaining their goals. Those who already have a research topic in mind should outline it in detail, giving a sense of how they plan their progress ...
Add to calendar. 12 Quincy St. Come learn about the creative writing side of the English department! Meet faculty and current students involved in ficiton, poetry, nonfiction, playwriting, and screenwriting, and hear about our workshops and the creative thesis. Bring your questions, or just drop by to chat, have coffee and snacks.
At the time, the English department offered 13 creative writing courses with a cap of 12 students each. In 2018, that number rose to 20 workshops, which similarly took the form of small seminar ...
ADMINISTRATION Thomas Jehn. Sosland Director of the Harvard College Writing Program. [email protected] Fields: English Literature and Academic Writing Research and Writing Interests: Secondary school and college writing pedagogy, Institutional histories of literary studies, academic activism, and 60s culture. Tom Jehn is the Sosland Director of the Harvard College Writing Program, where ...
Fall 2024 Creative Writing Course Application Information Read all instructions before submitting your application(s): Please submit your completed application(s) by 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, April 7. LATE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.There are absolutely no exceptions to this deadline; please do not contact the instructor or the department if you miss this deadline, simply apply again next ...
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Instructor: Gordon Teskey Monday, 3:45-5:45pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location The first-year proseminar (taken in the spring semester of the first year) introduces students to the theories, methods, and history of English as a discipline, and contemporary debates in English studies.
Kate Narveson Professor of English English Department Head. Main 506 700 College Drive Decorah, IA 52101. [email protected]. Phone: 563-387-2593. The English major instills a passion for learning, sharing ideas, and expressing yourself through writing. Reading and responding to a range of genres-poetry, drama, film, novels, creative ...
On March 25 th, several Duke English faculty and more than 20 undergraduates met to discuss "Sex, Money, Death (and PIZZA): Why you should be a Creative Writing Minor.". Each semester, the Duke English Department hosts an Open House for students to learn about the craft of creative writing from faculty members whose areas of expertise include poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Write of Passage 2024 showcases the work and talent of the Spring 2024 graduating students of UCF's creative writing MFA graduate program. This reading will feature works by Justin Ahlquist, Camila Cal Mello, Fernanda Coutinho Teixeira, Kristi Dao, Colleen Dieckmann, Kianna Greene, Michelle Munoz, Spencer Reynolds, Jessa Santiago, Dani Sarta ...
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