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Harvard's creative writing program has new home

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Faculty and students have settled into the new home of creative writing atop Lamont Library. The bright, windowed fourth-floored space featuring a workshop conference room and faculty offices is a move up from the basement of the Barker Center, where most...

English CVB. Fiction Writing

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Instructor: Laura van den Berg Day & Time: Wednesday 12-2:45pm Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. Course Website This course will focus on the art of writing fiction. The initial weeks will focus on reading and craft discussion— exploring craft subjects...

English CACD. The Art of Criticism

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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...

English CIJR. Introduction to Journalism: Workshop

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Instructor: Jill Abramson Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBA Enrollment: Limited to 12 students An intensive seminar for those interested in understanding the changing role of journalism and learning the art of reporting and writing narrative stories...

English CSAF. Autofiction

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Instructor: Namwali Serpell Monday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students In this course, we will learn about representing the “real” self and “real” life in prose fiction. The use of confessional, autobiographical, and...

English CSGN. Genre Fiction

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Instructor: Namwali Serpell Tuesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This course offers an education in the origins of what is now known as genre fiction: romance, the Gothic, science fiction, mystery, thriller, detective...

English CAKV. Fiction Workshop: Writing from the First-Person Point of View

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Instructor: Andrew Krivak Tuesday, 9:00-11:45 1m | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site This course is a workshop intended for students who are interested in writing longer form narratives from the first-person point of view. The...

English 175a. Melville (Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar)

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Instructor: John Stauffer Thursday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 15 students This course offers an introduction to and critical examination of Melville’s writings. Moby-Dick is the centerpiece of the course (and of Melville’s works...

English CKPV. The Theory and Practice of Point of View

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Instructor: Andrew Krivák Tuesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students This workshop will be a semester-long study on how, where, and why a writer chooses to use a particular point of view. Taking the word “point” quite...

English CIJR. Introduction to Journalism: Workshop

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Instructor: Jill Abramson Thursday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: Barker 018 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course site An intensive seminar for those interested in understanding the changing role of journalism and learning the art of reporting and writing...

Writers at Work: Living as Readers

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RSVP is required. You can register for this event here. Please join us for our new lecture series hosted by the Creative Writing Faculty in the Harvard English Department inviting writers to discuss their work. Featuring Rachel Cohen and Katharine Smyth...

Andrew Krivak

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Education: B.A., St. John's College, Annapolis (1986)

M.F.A., Columbia University (1990)                                                                                    

Ph.D., Rugers University (2003)     

Interests: Fiction Writing 

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