Nonfiction

Instructor: Melissa Cundieff Wednesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: Barker 316 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site As memoirist and author Melissa Febos puts it: “The narrator is never you, and the sooner we can start thinking of ourselves on the...

Instructor: Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah Thursday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: Lamont 401 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site The essayist, the writer of non-fiction, has historically been an oracle of opinions that most often go unsaid. They do not...

Instructor: Maggie Doherty Tuesday, 12:00-2:45 pm | Location: Sever 205 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This course is an overview of the creative nonfiction genre and the many different types of writing that are included within it: memoir...

Instructor: Maggie Doherty Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students How do we know why we like, or don’t like, a book, or a TV show, or a play? What are the different ways we can write about art? What is taste, and does it...

Instructor: Darcy Frey Section 001 Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Section 002 Thursday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD TBD | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Whether it takes the form of literary journalism, essay, memoir, or...

Instructor: Maggie Doherty Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course will focus on longform journalism published in magazines. We will read and analyze published magazine pieces, including profiles, investigative...

Instructor: Louisa Thomas Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In newsrooms, the sports section is sometimes referred to as the “toy department” -- frivolous and unserious, unlike the stuff of politics, business, and war...

Instructor: Louisa Thomas Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site How does one tell -- vividly, interestingly -- the story of a life? How do we access a private life, or situate it in a public world? What if...

Instructor: Michael Pollan Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site The arc of this writing workshop will follow, step by step, the process of researching and writing a single long piece of science journalism...