| Course Title: Advanced Creative Writing Topics: 'Writing Nature After Nature' |
| Start Date: 01/24/2022 End Date: 05/09/2022 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2022 |
| Description: How has writing about nature changed as we face the unfolding crises of our climate? Is there a poetics of climate change, a narrative form suitable for fiction, a nonfictional style that attends to the experience of living "after nature"? This course will ask us to enlarge our environmental imaginations by writing into and beyond the assumed conventions of nature writing and by challenging what and who the subjects of this form may be. We'll read contemporary writers such as Vandana Singh, Ed Roberson, Juliana Spahr, Tommy Pico, Cherie Dimaline, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Camille Dungy, and Nnedi Okorafor. We will also look back to the history of the genre for evidence of its possibilities and limits as we create our own texts using tools developed through study, workshop, and creative practice throughout the course. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Arthur Middleton | amiddlet@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/24/2022 - 05/09/2022 | Seminar | Monday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | SHTK - Shattuck Hall | 203 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: ENGL-201. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| ENVST-HUM | ENVST-HUM: Env Studies pre-2024 Minor - Humanities | This course has been approved to count towards the Environmental Studies minor Humanities area. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 15 | Enrollment: 18 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |