Language and Rhetoric · 2 sections
First-year composition built around argument, analysis, and the expository essay, with sustained attention to rhetorical strategy and revision.
Introduction to Creative Writing · 2 sections
A multi-genre introduction to the craft of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction through reading, exercises, and workshop.
Advanced Fiction Writing
An upper-level workshop in the short story, focused on craft, structure, and sustained revision toward finished work.
Creative Writing: Magazine Production
A hands-on course in producing a literary magazine—soliciting, selecting, editing, and laying out work for publication.
Major British and American Authors
A survey of major figures and movements in British and American literature.
Independent Studies in Advanced Creative Writing
One-on-one tutorials guiding advanced students through extended fiction projects.
Composition and Rhetoric · 10 sections
First-year writing organized around the college paper as an argument: expository and persuasive essays, working with sources, and revision. Sample syllabus →
English Composition · 12 sections
First-year expository writing: building and defending an argument in clear, academic prose across a sequence of essays.
Writing and Literature · 10 sections
Composition and close reading for art students, pairing analytical and expository writing with a survey of literary texts.
Fiction Writing I · 9 sections
Fundamentals of the short story—character, scene, point of view, and dialogue—developed through exercises and workshop.
Fiction Writing II · 4 sections
An intermediate workshop emphasizing full drafts, structure, and revision toward submittable stories.
Reading Fiction from the Writer’s Perspective
Reading published fiction as a writer, to uncover the techniques behind the page.
Fiction Writing I — Online
The Fiction Writing I curriculum adapted for an online workshop.
Reading Fiction from the Writer’s Perspective
Close reading of short fiction with an eye to craft and technique.
Introduction to Fiction Writing · 2 sections
An undergraduate workshop in the elements of the short story, taught as part of an MFA teaching fellowship.
Fiction Writing Workshop
A ten-day, for-credit intensive in the short story.
Craft Lectures
Including “The Next Step: How to Submit Your Work to Literary Journals” and “The True Story in Literary Fiction: Writing from Personal Experience.”