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Spring 2010:
Experimental Writing Workshops
Thanks to support from the Department of English and the Graduate School, the following Experimental Writing Workshops will be offered in Spring 2010. To register for an Experimental Writing Workshop, see the English Department listings on SPIRE. For more information on the Workshops in general, click here.
English 297BC In Rare Forms: Collaborative Writing for the Eventful
David Bartone & Jeff Downey
Thursdays 4-6:30
Vows, toasts, and eulogies. Live-event blogs, renga, and travel journals. Blurbs, letters-to-the-editor, and manifestos. In this course we will experiment with rare—sometimes once in a lifetime-occasions for writing. We will study poetic, literary, and social histories of these forms, and we will call into question assumptions about the role of collaboration. How do certain situations incite us to be more responsive? How is creativity connected to feedback? Our emphasis will be the texts we produce together.
English 297TT Queer Writing/Queer Texts/Queer Rhetoric
Andrea Lawlor & Morgan Lynn
Wednesdays 4:40-7:10
In this course, we will explore the intersection of queer writing, queer identity, and queer rhetorical action. As an exciting mix of critical and experimental writing, we will look at how queer writers have subverted and ruptured genre and also play with and produce our own alternative texts.
English 297 BD Moving Text Off the Page: Composing (for) Museums
Anne Bello
Thursdays 2:00-4:30
Bartlett 303
Using museum exhibits as a starting point, we’ll explore how moving text off the page opens up new possibilities for writing. We’ll explore local museums, experiment with our own texts, and ultimately create an exhibit for the Writing Program’s Celebration of Writing as we take our writing out into the world.
English 297BE Writing the Zone
Liane Malinowski & Jack Christian
Tuesdays 4:00-6:30
As an athlete plays at sport, so, too does a writer play at language. In this course we will consider how sports and writing inform one another. Through observation, reading, and experimental writing practices we will endeavor to go into the zone of sports and bring back evocative writing.
English 297BF Less is More: Exploring the Creative Potential of Constraints
A’Dora Phillips & Jason Larson
Thursdays 4:00-6:30
In this course, we will explore the creative potential of constraints at the level of language, content, and form. Throughout we’ll be attempting to answer some important questions: What is a constraint? Why write with constraints? Why write without constraints? What do we lose and gain by working with and without constraints? Exploring multiple genres is encouraged.
English 297 BG Intersections: Cross Genre, Cross Topic, Cross Form
Peggy Woods
Tuesdays 4:00-6:30
Poetic essays? A fictional cookbook? Romance and economics? We tend to think of different genres of writing (creative writing and academic writing), different topics (humanities and science) and different forms (cookbooks and computer manuals) as separate things that don’t mix. But what happens when the elements of creative writing mix with the elements of academic writing? When the form of the short story mixes with the computer manual form? When seemingly separate fields meet? We’ll begin at these intersections and explore where our writing takes us.
