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BA in Humanities

The BA in Humanities provides a strong pre-professional education in the liberal arts. Students acquire the writing, critical thinking, aesthetic, and analytical abilities required to pursue a graduate degree, or to advance in their career.

Humanities of Now

The broad-based humanities curriculum encourages students to think in the cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary ways needed to succeed in today's increasingly globalized business, cultural, and communication environments.

Faculty Contact

Dr. Bri Newland, Assistant Dean, Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies (212) 998-7201 [email protected]

Dovetail is the annual art and literary journal of the NYU School of Professional Studies. It is devoted to publishing and honoring the voice, craft, and originality of emerging writers and artists. We publish original fiction, non-fiction, poetry, playwriting, and all forms of visual art. Our editorial staff is comprised of students enrolled in the "Literary Magazine Production" course, which runs every spring semester. Dovetail is open for submissions every year from September 15 - February 15.

Program Structure

Core courses.

Core courses provide an in-depth exploration of the liberal arts that expands your critical thinking and analytical skills, increases your knowledge, and develops your intellect.

Concentrations

Select one of the following concentrations: Art History and Visual Culture, Creative Writing, or Literature.

Work in close consultation with a faculty advisor on a senior thesis or project in your field of study.

Students select elective credits from DAUS course offerings in consultation with their advisor.

Internships

Earn academic credit while gaining industry experience. Work with coaches at the Wasserman Center to learn how to land an internship that will let you put what you have learned in the classroom into action.

Students may select one of the following concentrations

Art History and Visual Culture

Analyze and comprehend the cultural, social, and political messages that lie hidden beneath art’s aesthetic beauty.

Explore how literature serves to enrich understanding and foster critical thinking in a complex world.

Creative Writing

Designed for beginner through experienced writers who wish to develop their craft.

Core Requirements

The degree is a 128 credit program consisting of a required set of core courses (32 credits), foundation courses (20 credits), methods and theory courses (8 credits), major requirements (20 credits), concentration courses (16 credits),  free electives (26 credits), and a graduation project (4 credits).

Foundation Courses: Humanities

Prior to beginning a concentration, students must complete a series of foundation courses within their major. A student¿s chosen concentration determines which particular combination of the following required courses and elected humanities and social sciences courses will make up the foundation curriculum of their humanities major. Students select four of the following courses.

• CWRG1-UC5240 Foundations of The Creative Process 4
• ARTH1-UC5430 History of Art I: Earliest to Middle Ages 4
• ARTH1-UC5431 History of Art II: Renaissance to Modern 4
• MEST1-UC6033 The Language of Contemporary Images 4
• LITR1-UC6241 Introduction to Literature 4
• HUMN1-UC6403 Foundations of Philosophical Thought 4
• RELG1-UC7003 Judaism, Christianity, & Islam 4
• RELG1-UC7004 Hinduism, Buddhism, & Taoism 4

Foundation Courses: Social Sciences

Prior to beginning a concentration, students must complete a series of foundation courses within their major. A student¿s chosen concentration determines which particular combination of the following required courses and elected humanities and social sciences courses will make up the foundation curriculum of their humanities major. Students select one of the following courses.

• ECON1-UC0301 Intro to Macroeconomics 4
• ECON1-UC0302 Intro to Microeconomics 4
• BUSN1-UC0504 Business Organization & Management 4
• ORBC1-UC1301 Organizational Behavior 4
• SOCS1-UC2201 Oral Communications 4
• ANTH1-UC5003 Cultural Anthropology 4
• MEST1-UC6028 Understanding Media 4
• POLS1-UC6602 Political Thought 4
• POLS1-UC6604 American Politics 4
• POLS1-UC6605 International Relations 4
• PSYC1-UC6801 Intro to Psychology 4
• SOCY1-UC7200 Intro to Sociology 4
• ECON1-UC6607 The Global Economy 4
• ECON1-UC6608 History of Economic Thought 4

Methods and Theory

Students select two Methods and Theory courses in consultation with their advisor.

• ARTH1-UC5471 Art Theory & Criticism 4
• CWRG1-UC5247 Seminar in Reading & Writing 4
• HUMN1-UC7900 Humanities Research Seminar 4
• LITR1-UC6280 Literary Theory & Criticism 4
• MEST1-UC6002 Media and Literary Genres I 4
• MEST1-UC6003 Media and Literary Genres II: 2

Major Requirements

To enhance their area of concentration and to broaden their knowledge base, students select 20 credits by combining their choice of the concentration courses; other humanities or social sciences courses; and the following courses. Students in the Art History and Visual Culture concentration must select at least one ARTS1-UC course. Students select 20 credits in consultation with their advisor.

• ARTH1-UC5426 The Art and History of Advertising and Graphic Design 4
• ARTH1-UC5427 The History of Interior Design 4
• ARTH1-UC5457 Oppositional Dress: A Subtext of Fashion 4
• ARTH1-UC5454 American Art & Architecture 4
• ARTH1-UC5452 Gender Studies in Art History 4
• ARTH1-UC5421 History of Photography 4
• ARTH1-UC5423 The Manhattan Skyline 2
• ARTH1-UC5422 New York City Architecture 2
• ARTH1-UC5425 Public Art in New York 2
• ARTS1-UC5445 The Arts: Art Studio Techniques and Practices 2
• ARTS1-UC5439 The Arts: The Blues 2
• ARTS1-UC5432 The Arts: Collage & Mixed Media 2
• ARTS1-UC5417 The Arts: Drawing 2
• ARTS1-UC5434 The Arts: Drawing, Expression,Space & Form 2
• ARTS1-UC5435 The Arts: Fundamentals of Painting & Design 2
• ARTS1-UC5411 The Arts: Jazz 2
• ARTS1-UC5406 The Arts: Opera 2
• ARTS1-UC5414 The Arts: Photography: The World Through the Lens 2
• ARTS1-UC5440 The Arts: Rock, Soul, Salsa 1950-1980 2
• ARTS1-UC5421 The Arts: Roots of American Music 2
• ARTS1-UC5450 The Arts: World Music 2
• ARTS1-UC5420 The Arts: Writing About the Arts 2
• CWRG1-UC5276 Editorial Conference 2-4
• CWRG1-UC5244 Focus on Technique: 2
• CWRG1-UC5292 Intensive Workshop in Creative Writing 4
• CWRG1-UC6091 Literary Magazine Production 4
• LITR1-UC6290 Sp Tpcs in Literature 2-4
• CWRG1-UC5290 Sp Tpcs in Creatve Wrtg 2-4
• LAIN1-UC7942 Liberal Arts Internship 4

The following courses may be required based on a writing placement assessment, and should be successfully completed within the first three semesters.

• EXWR1-UC7501 Introduction to Creative and Expository Writing 2
• EXWR1-UC7502 Writing Workshop I 4
• EXWR1-UC7503 Writing Workshop II 4

Critical Thinking

Students are required to take the following course.

• HUMN1-UC6401 Critical Thinking 4

Quantitative Reasoning

Students, in close consultation with their advisor, select Math 1 and Math II or one of the following other courses based on a math placement assessment.

• MATH1-UC1101 Math I 2
• MATH1-UC1141 Math II 2
• MATH1-UC1105 Mathematical Reasoning 4
• MATH1-UC1171 Precalculus 4
• MATH1-UC1174 Calculus W/Applications to Business & Economics 4

Scientific Issues

Students select one of the following courses in consultation with their advisor.

• SCNC1-UC2001 Human Biology 4
• SCNC1-UC3203 Environmental Sustainability 4
• SCNC1-UC3207 Stars, Planets, & Life 4
• SCNC1-UC3215 Biology of Hunger & Population 4

Historical Perspectives

• HIST1-UC5804 Renaissance to Revolutn 4
• HIST1-UC5820 The American Experience 4
• HIST1-UC5821 Classical & Medieval World 4
• HIST1-UC5822 Contemporary World 4

Global Perspectives

• ANTH1-UC5011 World Cultures: Africa 4
• ANTH1-UC5012 World Cultures: Middle East 4
• ANTH1-UC5013 World Cultures: Asia 4
• ANTH1-UC5014 World Cultures: Latin America & The Caribbean 4

Literary and Artistic Expressions

• ARTS1-UC5438 History of Music 4
• ARTH1-UC5443 Visual Expressions in Society 4
• LITR1-UC6201 Contemporary Global Literature 4
• LITR1-UC6209 Oral Traditions in Literature 4

Students select 26-28 credits from DAUS course offerings in consultation with their advisor.

Graduation Project

A student¿s chosen concentration determines which particular course will fulfill the graduation project requirement of their humanities major. Students select one of the following courses in consultation with their advisor.

• HUMN1-UC7991 Senior Project: Humanities 4
• LAIN1-UC7992 Liberal Arts Senior Project: Internship 4

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The NYU SPS Admissions team carefully weighs each component of your application during the admissions review process to evaluate your ability to benefit from and contribute to the dynamic learning environment and the challenging curriculum that the NYU School of Professional Studies offers.

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Creative Writing

Degrees and fields of study.

• M.F.A. in Creative Writing - Fiction
• M.F.A.  in Creative Writing - Poetry
• M.F.A.  in Creative Writing - Creative Nonfiction
• M.F.A.  in Writers Workshop in Paris - Fiction
• M.F.A.  in Writers Workshop in Paris - Poetry
• M.F.A.  in Writers Workshop in Paris - Creative Nonfiction

Application Deadlines

Applications and all supporting materials must be  submitted online by 5PM  Eastern Time. If a listed deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or U.S. federal holiday, then the next business day will be the actual deadline.

Creative Writing Programs

• December 18 : Fall admission

Writers Workshop in Paris Programs

• September 1 : January residency (spring application)
• February 1 : June residency (summer application)

Requirements

In addition to the general application requirements, the department specifically requires:

Test Scores

• Please do not send GRE test scores — they will not be reviewed by our Admissions Committee.

TOEFL/IELTS

Applicants must submit official TOEFL or IELTS scores unless they:

Are a native English speaker; OR

Are a US citizen or permanent resident; OR

Have completed (or will complete) a baccalaureate or master's degree at an institution where the language of instruction is English.

Statement of Academic Purpose

In a concisely written statement, please describe your past and present work as it relates to your intended field of study, your educational objectives, and your career goals. In addition, please include your intellectual and professional reasons for choosing your field of study and why your studies/research can best be done at the Graduate School of Arts and Science at NYU. The statement should not exceed two double-spaced pages.

Writing Sample

A creative writing sample is required. It should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages for fiction and nonfiction applicants and 10 single-spaced pages for poetry applicants. The font size should be 12 point or larger.

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NYU Creative Writing Program

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The Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University has distinguished itself for more than three decades as a leading national center for the study of literature and writing. The program enables students to develop their craft while working closely with some of today's finest poets and writers. Students also have an opportunity to enjoy America's most literary terrain, benefiting from the extensive cultural resources of the University and New York City.

Each year the faculty selects a talented group of writers and offers them rigorous and supportive teaching. Most candidates take one workshop and one other course each semester and complete the program in two years; only one writing workshop may be taken per semester. In the final semester, students present a creative thesis consisting of a substantial body of finished work in poetry, fiction, or nonfiction.

The NYU Creative Writing program provides an environment which enables students to work seriously at their craft and, through outreach programs, the literary journal Washington Square, and public readings, bring the art of writing to the larger community of New York City. This is a serious community of writers engaged in an exceptional program of study.

Washington Square is the literary review of New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program. A biannual literary magazine, it is staffed and edited by CWP students. It includes work by established writers as well as NYU alumni. It sponsors a student reading series open to the public and enables students to experience working on a literary magazine in all phases of its production.

NYU's Creative Writing Program offers a prestigious literary reading series, free and open to the public. (Support is provided by NY Community Trust, the NY State Council on the Arts, Poets & Writers, Inc., Poetry Society of America, the NYU Book Center, and many more.) Guest writers are invited to meet informally with students during their visits. Recent guests have included André Aciman, Kaveh Akbar, Donald Antrim, Amy Bloom, Jericho Brown, Anne Carson, Alexander Chee, Susan Choi, Sandra Cisneros, Lydia Davis, Stuart Dybek, Mark Doty, Deborah Eisenberg, Melissa Febos, Joshua Ferris, Rivka Galchen, Jorie Graham, Terrance Hayes, Marie Howe, Etgar Keret, Maxine Hong Kingston, Rachel Kushner, Dorothea Lasky, Victor LaValle, Kiese Laymon, Jonathan Lethem, Sam Lipsyte, Patricia Lockwood, Layli Long Soldier, Carmen Maria Machado, James McBride, Dinaw Mengestu, Claire Messud, Lorrie Moore, Eileen Myles, Joyce Carol Oates, Sharon Olds, Morgan Parker, Carl Phillips, Claudia Rankine, Karen Russell, Tracy K. Smith, Gary Shteyngart, Edmund White, and Colson Whitehead.

Students may apply for fellowships that involve teaching in literary outreach programs. These programs, which have become national models for excellence in literary outreach, include The Starworks Fellowship Program, The Goldwater Writing Workshop, and the Veterans Writing Workshop.

Contact Information

58 West 10th Street Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House New York New York, United States 10011 Phone: 2129988816 Email: [email protected] https://as.nyu.edu/cwp.html

Minor / Concentration in Creative Writing +

Undergraduate program director.

The Minor in Creative Writing offers undergraduates the opportunity to hone their skills while exploring the full range of literary genres including poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The Minor is a sixteen-point credit load consisting of three to four creative writing courses. V39.0815 Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction & Poetry (or V39.9815 Creative Writing, or equivalent) is generally the foundational course, to be followed by twelve additional points in the form of three higher-level workshops (Intermediate/Advanced/Master Class; four points each) or one higher-level workshop combined with one of our summer intensives (Writers in New York or Writers in Paris; eight points each).

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing +

Graduate program director.

The Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University has distinguished itself for more than two decades as a leading national center for the study of literature and writing. The program enables students to develop their craft while working closely with some of today's finest poets and writers. Students also have an opportunity to enjoy America's most literary terrain, benefiting from the extensive cultural resources of the University and New York City.

Washington Square Review is the literary review of New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program. A biannual literary magazine, it is staffed and edited by CWP students. It includes work by established writers as well as NYU alumni. It sponsors a student reading series open to the public and enables students to experience working on a literary magazine in all phases of its production.

NYU's Creative Writing Program offers a prestigious literary reading series, free and open to the public. (Support is provided by NY Community Trust, the NY State Council on the Arts, Poets & Writers, Inc., the NYU Book Center, and many more.) Guest writers are invited to meet informally with students during their visits. Recent guests have included Andre Aciman, Fred Moten, Claire Messud, Carl Phillips, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Ladan Osman, Jenny Offill, Susan Choi, Khaled Mattawa, Layli Long Soldier, Chang rae-Lee, Curtis Sittenfeld, Pamela Sneed, Patricia Lockwood, Melissa Febos, Rachel Cusk, Karen Russell, Aimee Bender, Eliot Weinberger, Douglas Kearney, Kaveh Akbar, and Maggie Nelson, among many others.

Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU. Her first book of poetry, Satan Says, received the San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second book, The Dead and the Living, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of The Gold Cell; The Father; The Wellspring; Blood, Tin, Straw; The Unswept Room; Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980- 2002; One Secret Thing; Odes; and most recently, Arias, which was a finalist for the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2012, her collection Stag's Leap was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. She received a Lila Wallace-Readers' Digest Grant in 1993, part of which was designated for the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island. In 1997, she received the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award. From 1998-2000 she was the New York State Poet Laureate. Professor Olds holds the Erich Maria Remarque Professorship at NYU.

https://as.nyu.edu/cwp/graduate/faculty.html

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. Her first novel, White Teeth, was the winner of The Whitbread First Novel Award, The Guardian First Book Award, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and The Commonwealth Writers' First Book Award. Her second novel, The Autograph Man, won The Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize. Zadie Smith's third novel, On Beauty, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won The Commonwealth Writers' Best Book Award (Eurasia Section) and the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Swing Time, was published in 2016. She is the editor of an anthology of short stories entitled The Book Of Other People and has published several collections of short stories including Martha and Hanwell (2005), and Grand Union (2019), as well as several collections of essays including Changing My Mind (2009), Feel Free: Essays (2018), and the most recent Intimations: Six Essays (2020). She was formerly the New Books columnist for Harper's Magazine. Zadie Smith is a graduate of Cambridge University and has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She became a tenured professor of fiction at NYU in 2010.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the bestselling novel Everything Is Illuminated, named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and the winner of numerous awards, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize. His other novels include Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and, most recently, Here I Am. He is also the author of the nonfiction books, Eating Animals, and We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (2019). Foer was one of Rolling Stone's "People of the Year" and Esquire's "Best and Brightest,” and was included in The New Yorker magazine's "20 Under 40" list of writers. He lives in Brooklyn.

Matthew Rohrer

Matthew Rohrer is the author of The Sky Contains the Plans (Wave Books, 2020), The Others (Wave Books, 2017), which was the winner of the 2017 Believer Book Award, Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015), Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books, 2011), A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Rise Up (Wave Books, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press, 2001), and co-author, with Joshua Beckman, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press, 2002), and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. With Joshua Beckman and Anthony McCann he wrote the secret book Gentle Reader! It is not for sale. Octopus Books published his action/adventure chapbook-length poem They All Seemed Asleep in 2008. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994.

His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals. He's received the Hopwood Award for poetry and a Pushcart prize, and was selected as a National Poetry Series winner, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Recently he has participated in residencies/ performances at the Museum of Modern Art (New York City) and the Henry Art Gallery (Seattle).

Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was raised in Oklahoma, and attended universities in Ann Arbor, Dublin, and Iowa City. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.

Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Chang and Eng, The Real McCoy, More Than it Hurts You, the NBCC-winning memoir, Half a Life, the comic-book series, Olivia Twist, and most recently the acclaimed novel, The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story (Random House, 2020). A recipient of a National Book Critics Circle Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Library Association Award, and numerous other prizes, Strauss has written screenplays for Disney, Gary Oldman, and Julie Taymor. His work has been translated into fourteen languages and published in nineteen countries, and he is a Clinical Professor at the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Deborah Landau

Deborah Landau (Director) is the author of four collections of poetry: Soft Targets (winner of the 2019 Believer Book Award), The Uses of the Body and The Last Usable Hour, all Lannan Literary Selections from Copper Canyon Press, and Orchidelirium, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye for the Robert Dana Anhinga Prize for Poetry. Her other awards include a Jacob K Javits Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Uses of the Body was featured on NPR's All Things Considered, and included on "Best of 2015" lists by The New Yorker, Vogue, BuzzFeed, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. A Spanish edition was published by Valparaiso Edici?ones in 2017. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, CNN, and The Best American Poetry, and included in anthologies such as Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now, Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, Not for Mothers Only, The Best American Erotic Poems, and Women's Work: Modern Poets Writing in English. Landau was educated at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Brown University, where she received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. She is a professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University.

The Uses of the Body was featured on NPR's All Things Considered, and included on "Best of 2015" lists by The New Yorker, Vogue BuzzFeed, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. A Spanish edition is forthcoming from Valparaiso Ediciones.

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Tin House, Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, selected for The Best American Poetry, and included in anthologies such as Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, Not for Mothers Only, The Best American Erotic Poems, and Women's Work: Modern Poets Writing in English.

Landau was educated at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Brown University, where she was a Javits Fellow and received a Ph.D. in English and American Literature. She teaches in and directs the Creative Writing Program at New York University, and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, sons, and daughter.

Nathan Englander

Nathan Englander's most recent novel is kaddish.com. He is also the author of the Dinner at the Center of the Earth, the collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, as well as the internationally bestselling story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and the novel The Ministry of Special Cases (all published by Knopf/Vintage). He was the 2012 recipient of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for What We Talk About. His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Vogue, and Esquire, among other places. His work has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and numerous editions of The Best American Short Stories, including 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. Translated into twenty-two languages, Englander was selected as one of “20 Writers for the 21st Century” by The New Yorker, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He’s been a fellow at the Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and at The American Academy of Berlin. In 2012 Englander's translation of the New American Haggadah (edited by Jonathan Safran Foer) was published by Little Brown. He also co-translated Etgar Keret's Suddenly A Knock at the Door and Fly Already, published by FSG. His play The Twenty-Seventh Man premiered at the Public Theater in 2012, and his new play, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, winner of a 2019 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, and the 2020 Blanche and Irving Laurie Theatre Visions Fund Prize, was commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater and was supposed to be running at The Old Globe in San Diego right now—sigh. He is Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University and lives with his family in Toronto.

Terrance Hayes

Terrance Hayes’s most recent publications include American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin (Penguin 2018) and To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight (Wave, 2018). To Float In The Space Between was winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2019 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism and a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin won the Hurston/Wright 2019 Award for Poetry and was a finalist the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry, the 2018 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry, and the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Hayes is a Professor of English at New York University.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has published numerous essays and memoirs, novellas, plays, children's and young adult fiction, and dozens of works of short fiction, poetry, and fiction, including We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), as well as the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter, A Book of American Martyrs, and the most recent, Hazards of Time Travel, My Life as a Rat, and Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. Her most recent works, published with HarperCollins, include the poetry collection American Melancholy (2021) and a collection of stories The (Other) You (2021). Her next novel Breathe will be published in August 2021. In 2013, she received the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection for Black Dahlia and White Swan. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

Catherine Barnett

Catherine Barnett is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a Pushcart Prize. Her most recent collection, Human Hours, was published in 2018 by Graywolf Press and received the Believer Book Award in Poetry. She is also the author of Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced (Alice James Books, 2004), winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award, and The Game of Boxes (Graywolf Press, 2012), which received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets for an outstanding second book. Barnett has taught at Barnard, Princeton, and Hunter, and is currently a Clinical Associate Professor at NYU.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published to major acclaim in 1993. It has been translated into thirty-four languages and made into a feature film. In 2003, Eugenides received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002). Middlesex also won the WELT-Literaturpreis of Germany and the Great Lakes Book Award, and it was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, France’s Prix Medici, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His third novel, The Marriage Plot (FSG, 2011), was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and was named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The New Republic, Publisher's Weekly, and numerous other publications. His latest book, the story collection Fresh Complaint (FSG, 2017), was a New York Times Notable Book of 2017, and was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, The Guardian, NPR, and others. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review, and Granta’s “Best of Young American Novelists.” Eugenides is the recipient of many awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Henry D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2018. He taught creative writing at Princeton for many years before joining the NYU Creative Writing Program as a tenured full professor and the Lewis and Loretta Glucksman Professor in American Letters. Eugenides has been inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Letters and The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Katie Kitamura

Katie Kitamura’s most recent novel is Intimacies. Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award, it is a Barack Obama Summer Reading selection and a New York Times Editors’ choice. Her third novel, A Separation, was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Premio von Rezzori. She is also the author of Gone To The Forest and The Longshot, both finalists for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Her work has been translated into nineteen languages and is being adapted for film and television. A recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and Santa Maddalena, Katie has written for publications including The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, BOMB, Triple Canopy, and Frieze. She teaches in the creative writing program at New York University.

Hari Kunzru

Hari Kunzru is a Clinical Professor in the Creative Writing Program. He holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University and an MA in Philosophy and Literature from Warwick University. He is the author of five novels, including White Tears, a finalist for the PEN Jean Stein Award, the Kirkus Prize, the Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, One Book New York, the Prix du Livre Inter étranger, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His latest novel Red Pill was published in 2020 by Knopf. He is also the author of The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men and a short story collection, Noise. His novella Memory Palace was presented as an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2013. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. His short stories and essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Guardian, New York Review of Books, Granta, Bookforum, October and Frieze. He has written screenplays, radio drama, and experimental work using field recordings and voice-to-text software. He has taught at Hunter College and Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. He has been a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin. He is a past deputy president of English PEN, a judge for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize and has been a frequent presenter, interviewer and guest on television and radio.

Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine is a recipient of the 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, and the author of six collections including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; three plays including HELP, which premiered in March of 2020 at The Shed, NYC, and The White Card, and the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. She also co-produces a video series, “The Situation,” alongside John Lucas, and is the founder of the Open Letter Project: Race and the Creative Imagination. In 2016, she co-founded The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII). In addition to the MacArthur, her numerous awards and honors include the Forward Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts. Her most recent book is Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf, 2020). A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Claudia Rankine joined the NYU Creative Writing Program as a tenured Professor in Fall 2021.

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Creative Writing Experiments provides a foundation in at least two genres or areas of creative writing (i.e. fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, memoir, and/or translation). The conversations and writing assignments will be guided by a reading list that emphasizes modern and contemporary global voices. Students will write extensively and participate in workshops as they experiment with various forms and techniques. They’ll look at published works alongside student works-in-progress to better understand the strategies of creative writing. The goal is for students to practice and refine techniques drawn from a diversity of approaches, explore them through their own creative pieces, and to leave the class with a heightened appreciation for the complexity of making creative works.

Creative Writing Studio

Creative Writing Studio provides a focused workshop in one genre or area of creative writing (i.e. fiction, poetry, screenwriting, playwriting, creative nonfiction, literary journalism, memoir, or translation) with an emphasis on modern and contemporary global writing. The course situates creative practices within the cultural context that shaped the particular genre or area of creative writing at the center of the course—in fiction, for example, magical realism and its ties to Latin America, the varied approaches to memoir across different cultures, or the haiku or tanka and its connection to Japan and East Asia. Central to the course is the development of students’ own creative skills and practices. Students will write extensively and participate in workshops as they explore various approaches and techniques. They will look at published works alongside peer drafts to better understand the craft. The goal is for students to become more skilled at writing and revising creative pieces of their own, and to leave the course with a stronger understanding of the strategies, elements, and imaginative possibilities of one area of creative writing.

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A Tale of Three Cities: NYU’s Summer Creative Writing Programs

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• Aspiring writers can spend a month honing their craft in Paris, Florence, or New York City.
• These summer programs are open to current NYU undergrads as well as visiting students.
• Writers immerse themselves in their cities and learn from leading literary and creative minds.

Writers draw inspiration from their own experiences, and for many, global cities become their muse. At NYU, aspiring poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers can enroll in a monthlong immersive summer program through the College of Arts and Science . Participants choose between Paris, Florence, and New York City, and then hone their creative writing skills against the backdrop of an iconic city. Below, three aspiring wordsmiths share their experiences living a writer’s life.

Enjoy a Moveable Feast in Paris

NYU English and American Literature major Isean Bhalla chose to study in Paris because a friend completed the program and loved it. Their endorsement? “‘It was the greatest month of my life,’ word for word,” Isean recalls. “Plus, one does not say no to Paris. Ever.” Reflecting back, Isean credits growing as a creative writer to the program’s high-quality faculty and “excellent” nightly readings from “world-class writers.” “It gave me a greater understanding of my own voice as well as things I want to write about in the future,” Isean affirms.

Most importantly, however, Writers in Paris connected Isean to an inspiring community that was rich in writing talent and friendship. “The program put me in constant contact with other writers who were better than I was. They pushed me in ways I couldn’t. Being around writers 24/7 doesn’t sound like it’s that important, but I found it more stimulating for my writing than anything else. That’s all anyone ever talked about or thought about. So we’d feed off each other and get better.” And, of course, being in Paris didn’t hurt. Isean says, “Paris is a muse; Paris has always been a muse; and I suspect Paris will always be a muse.”

Get a Room with a View in Florence

Katherine Ertman always considered writing a hobby, but after attending Writers in Florence , she realized it could be a career. The NYU Vocal Performance major is training to be an opera singer, but in Florence, she found that “writing my own stories instead of performing stories written by others was a refreshing experience.” In fact, Katherine spent the past summer completing a Creative Writing minor by enrolling in both Writers in Florence and Writers in Paris. “It seemed like an amazing opportunity to complete all 16 credits while exploring two inspiring European cities,” she explains.

In Florence Katherine drew inspiration from a day trip to Castello di Fosdinovo, a Tuscan medieval castle. In Paris she attended readings by renowned authors outside the iconic Shakespeare and Company bookstore. “The locations really influenced me, and I ended up writing a few stories set in both locations,” Katherine says. In the end, she urges anyone interested to enroll, even if they’ve never shared their creative writing with others. “Just try it!” she exclaims. “Writing was a hobby for me, and I went in without any prior workshop experience. Also, I was intimidated because I’m not an English major. However, my fears were unfounded because the faculty and students alike were so supportive. It’s an experience I wouldn’t trade for the world.”

A Writer Grows in New York City

Esmé Warmuth grew up close to New York City, admiring the city from afar but never spending much time there. So when the English major learned that she could join NYU’s Writers in New York program as a visiting student , she jumped at the chance. “I’ve been a longtime admirer of NYU’s creative writing faculty,” she adds. Living in Greenwich Village, Esmé connected with published authors, literary agents, and magazine editors, gaining valuable professional experience. She particularly enjoyed a panel with program alumni. “It was helpful to hear from authors who had started where we were and wound up with book deals, jobs teaching creative writing, and overall successful careers,” she explains.

During her month in New York City, Esmé sharpened her skills as a writer and gained confidence in her abilities. “Receiving, giving, and listening to advice in class helped me grow my craft and gave me the opportunity to share my writing with a receptive and positive audience,” she says. All in all, the experience was better than she could have imagined. “The Writers in New York program was like nothing I ever experienced before,” she concludes. “Being among students my age who were just as passionate about books and writing as I am was wonderful. Plus, everyone came in with a great attitude and a willingness to learn. I’m very grateful.”

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The New School offered the first academic creative writing workshop in 1927 and pioneered a new philosophy of education. The idea: Students would make their own lives and stories part of their education. Today The New School continues to celebrate and cultivate daring and diverse new voices through its highly regarded MFA in Creative Writing program, the Summer Writing Intensive, and the BA in Creative Writing. Students in any major may also apply to The Writing and Democracy Honors Program .

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Elizabeth machlan.

Beth Boyle Machlan is a Clinical Associate Professor and a faculty mentor in the Expository Writing Program. She received her Ph.D. in American literature from Princeton University. She writes about parenting, music, health, fiction, and ice hockey, and her essays have appeared in The New York Times , The Hairpin , The Awl , The Huffington Post , and the African-American Review .

Christine Malvasi

Christine Malvasi is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University, where she was awarded the Willy Gorrissen Award for her teaching. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University and earned her MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, where she served as a Starworks Fellow. She's received multiple writing grants and fellowships, including awards from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Vermont Studio Center, and Poets & Writers.

David Markus

David Markus is an interdisciplinary writer and educator. His work focuses on representations of dwelling and domesticity in late-capitalist contexts, social practices in contemporary art, and the conflict between intimacy and artistic ambition in twentieth-century literature, art, and film. His articles and reviews have appeared in publications such as Art in America , Frieze , Art Journal , Art Papers , and Flash Art . His book Notes on Trumpspace: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Fantasy of Home is forthcoming with Dead Letter Office/punctum books. David can be reached at [email protected] .

Denice Martone

Denice Martone has been the Associate Director of the Expository Writing Program since 1992, and has been teaching Expository Writing at NYU since 1986. She received her Ph.D. at Steinhardt in Teaching and Learning, concentrating on English as a Second Language writers. Currently her academic work looks at the relationship between students’ perception of relevant ideas and the ways in which those ideas are rendered into sentences. Her other passions include photography, gardening, and cooking.

Matthew McClelland

Matthew McClelland received his Ph. D. from the University of Washington and his BA from Whittier College. He currently teaches Writing The Essay: Science and is the UHall Writing Affiliate.

Laren McClung

Laren McClung is author of a collection of poems,  Between Here and Monkey Mountain  (Sheep Meadow Press), and editor of the anthology  Inheriting the War: Poetry and Prose by Descendants of Vietnam Veterans and Refugees  (W.W. Norton). Her poems have appeared in journals including  Harvard Review, Poetry, Massachusetts Review,  and  Boston Review,  among others. Her awards include fellowships from Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, Germany, and she was named the 40th Poet Laureate of Bucks County in 2016. She has led writing workshops with residents at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island, New York, and with veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at New York University. Her current work is  Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters,  a collaboration with Yusef Komunyakaa.

Bridget McFarland

Bridget McFarland received a PhD in English and American Literature from NYU and a BA and MA in English from Georgetown University. Her current research examines pantomime and cultures of performance in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. She has published in academic journals, including  Theatre History Studies.

Daniel Menely

As an expository writing professor in Tisch, I teach young artists—playwrights, game designers, photographers, dancers, musicians, actors, and directors—about writing, and more specifically about how learning to write for collegiate studies is to explore and develop skill in an art form with its own elements of craft. The teaching and learning of my classes by necessity involve introspection, attunement, vulnerability, concentration, and resilience. I enjoy this work and can't imagine a more rewarding vocation. My own higher education degrees are a BA in English from Vassar College, an MFA in Fiction Writing from NYU, and an MA in Counseling in Mental Health and Wellness from NYU. I am a licensed psychotherapist (LMHC) with a private practice in Manhattan, and I'm also an independent writing consultant for students and others applying to institutions of higher education. I can be reached at [email protected]  and found online at http://danielmenely.com .

Nate Mickelson

Nate Mickelson is Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Faculty Development in the Expository Writing Program. He earned a B.A. in English from Yale University, an M.A. in English from Hunter College, CUNY, and a Ph.D. in English from The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Mickelson’s research and teaching interests include American poetry and poetics, hermeneutics/interpretation theory, writing studies, and the relationships between creativity, literacy, and everyday life. His book City Poems and American Urban Crisis, 1945 – Present (Bloomsbury 2018) argues that approaching poetry as a mode of analysis and critique can enhance our attempts to produce more just and equitable urban futures. Mickelson edited Writing as a Way of Staying Human in a Time that Isn’t (Vernon Press 2018), a collection of essays that describes how writing nurtures vulnerability, compassion, and empathy among students and instructors alike. His scholarship has been published in Learning Communities Research & Practice , Transformative Dialogues , The Journal of College Literacy and Learning , and The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies . He is Vice Chair of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, a standing group of CCCC and NCTE.

Prior to joining NYU, Mickelson was a founding faculty member at Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, CUNY. At Guttman, he led integrative learning communities, learning outcomes assessment, and faculty development programs. He was recognized as Faculty Fellow for Excellence in Teaching and received the Provost’s Award for Faculty Mentorship.

A. Elizabeth Mikesell

Elizabeth Mikesell holds advanced degrees in creative writing and multimedia art. Her creations include interactive sculpture ( Patty the Meat Robot , The Head Reliquary of Karen Carpenter ), web experiments ( The Saddest Thing I Own ), a children’s book ( Marlene, Marlene Queen of the Mean , with actress Jane Lynch); a course in arts funding; and essays exploring the convergence of art, personal narrative, and physical sciences, among other projects. She is a founding member of the Internet Disappearance Project.

Jonathan Mischkot

Jono Mischkot holds an MA in English from San Francisco State University and an MFA in Fiction from New York University. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Writing in the Disciplines. He received the Outstanding Teacher Award from NYU in 2008 and developed and edited the core textbooks for the Advanced College Essay courses. His short fiction has appeared in Oasis , Painted Bride Quarterly , and Third Place Magazine .

Blagovesta Momchedjikova

Blagovesta Momchedjikova, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, is the editor of Captured By The City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies (2013), guest-editor of Streetnotes: Urban Feel (2010), and contributor to The Everyday of Memory ; Robert Moses and the Modern City ; Streetnotes ; Iso Magazine ; The Journal of American Culture ; Tourist Studies ; Genre: Imagined Cities ; and Piers . Also: Urban Culture Area Chair (MAPACA); PANORAMA educator (Queens Museum); Board Member (International Panorama Council).

William Morgan

William Morgan is Director of the Writing Center and Clinical Professor of Expository Writing at New York University. He teaches essay writing, directs the Writing Center and all of its tutoring programs, and contributes to the leadership of the Expository Writing Program. His articles on style, the practices of tutoring, and the reading-writing connection have appeared in College English , Praxis , and Reader . His book of literary criticism is titled Questionable Charity: Gender, Humanitarianism and Complicity in U.S. Literary Realism . William can be reached at [email protected] .

Megan Murtha

Megan Murtha  is a theater artist (playwright, director, composer) whose work has been performed at The Tank, Dixon Place, The Bushwick Starr, Target Margin Theater, and other venues in NYC. She is a MacDowell Fellow, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow, and a Vermont Studio Center Fellow. Her approach to teaching writing incorporates play, mindfulness practices, and the art of slowing down. For her, the writing classroom is a contemplative space, a sanctuary that a writing community protects for each other to slow down and think in. Strong writing is motivated writing, and finding out what motivates each student is central to her pedagogy.

Matthew Nicholas

Matthew Nicholas is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program who has taught Writing the Essay, Writing the Essay: Science, and Advanced College Essay. He studies twentieth-century Irish and English literature, with a particular focus on the works of James Joyce. He also serves as a contributing editor for The Modern Spectator , a literary journal focusing on sports and culture.

Gerard O'Donoghue

Ger O’Donoghue is Clinical Associate Professor at EWP. He teaches  Writing the Essay  and  International Writing Workshops 1 & 2 . He mentors Peer Tutors in the Writing Partners Program. Formerly, Ger was Faculty Affiliate for living-learning residential communities at Goddard Hall and Rubin Hall. He has led CAS Freshman Seminars on concepts of credit and debt in American literature and on Joyce's  Ulysses . Ger's research interests focus on Jewish American literature and Irish literature. He wrote  American Kaddishim  (Cambria, 2019) and has published essays in  Philip Roth Studies ,  Notes and Queries , and the  Dublin James Joyce Journal . Ger holds a BA in English Lit. & Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin and MSt and DPhil degrees in English Lit. from Oxford University. Ger won the CAS  Golden Dozen Teaching Award in 2017.

Lorelei Ormrod

Lorelei Ormrod is Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program. A Rhodes Scholar, she focused her graduate work on British literary modernism and contemporary post-colonial fiction, producing theses on Virginia Woolf and Michael Ondaatje. She loves travel and nature writing, and is currently at work on a book about the body and trauma, healing and community. Passionate about international education and civic engagement, she leads the social justice stream at Goddard.

Colm O'Shea

My writing-teacher philosophy is this: the essay should be an intellectual adventure. Your mind is a mystery, and the world is a mystery. Essays grow out of genuine curiosity: how does art function as an interface between the twin mysteries of you and reality? Essaying can trace the twists and turns of your unique questions to wherever they may lead. If done correctly, the world will be more rather than less interesting once you finish your composition.      

I have a D.Phil from Trinity College, and an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford University, and am an award-winning poet and essayist. My recent publications include the sci-fi novel  Claiming De Wayke  (Crossroad Press) and  James Joyce's Mandala  (Routledge), which examines the relationship between mystic, schizophrenic, and psychedelic literature. 

Eric Ozawa is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program. His fiction, journalism, and translations have appeared in Granta.com , Columbia , and The Nation magazine, for which he has covered Japan’s March 11th earthquake and the nuclear crisis that followed.

Tara Parmiter

Tara K. Parmiter is a Clinical Associate Professor and Mentor in the Writing Tutors Program. Her research interests include literature and the environment, urban nature writing, children’s literature, and popular culture. She has published on topics ranging from the imagined landscapes of L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables novels to summer vacationing in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening to journey narratives in the Muppet movies. She earned her B.A. from Cornell and her Ph.D. from NYU.

Alessia Palanti

I obtained my PhD from Columbia University where I also taught writing for six years. I have taught for college prep programs based in China, and am passionate about studying Mandarin and Chinese culture. I was born and raised in Florence, Italy, and was an ESL student when I came to the US. Now, as a teacher of predominantly international students, I encourage them to see their languages as resources that allow them to access cultural knowledge. My goal is to demystify writing by teaching strategies students can employ in other classes and outside academia. I treat each class like a team of thinkers where everyone contributes to knowledge production. Besides teaching in the EWP, I also teach writing with  NYU’s Prison Education Program.  Outside academia, I am a contemporary dance performer and choreographer. You can reach me at  [email protected] .

Amira Pierce

Amira Pierce  got her MFA in Fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011. Since 2013, she has been a professor in the EWP, where she specializes in working with International students and their teachers. She embraces an intuitive approach to her teaching and is always looking for ways to celebrate curiosity and newness alongside her students. Amira writes fiction and nonfiction about the interplay of the personal and the political with hopes of finding beauty through brokenness. She lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn, was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and has lived and traveled across the US and abroad. Amira can be reached at  [email protected] .

Jennifer Quilter

Jenni Quilter is the Executive Director and Assistant Vice Dean of General Education at CAS, and she is the former Director of Fellowships Advising at NYU, helping students apply for nationally prestigious scholarships. Her most recent published book is Painters and Poets of the New York School: Neon in Daylight (Rizzoli 2014). She's currently writing and publishing about silent cinema, bodybuilding, Zeno's paradoxes, Afro-futurism, North-African piracy, Norway, and animal migration. Jenni won the Golden Dozen Teaching Award in 2014.

Abigail Rabinowitz

Abby Rabinowitz is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program in the Faculty of Arts and Science at New York University, and Associate Director for Writing in the Sciences and Engineering. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University School of the Arts and a BA in History from Brown University. Abby is a nonfiction writer whose work focuses on science and technology, with an emphasis on climate change and reproductive technologies. Her story on Indian surrogacy, reported over six years in Mumbai, ran as the Spring 2016 cover story of  The Virginia Quarterly Review and in The Guardian. Her reporting on climate change has appeared in The New York Times, Wired and The New Republic. Her writing has also appeared in Vice, Buzzfeed, Nautilus, Guernica and the journal Science , among other publications. Prior to joining NYU, Abby was a Course Co-Director and Lecturer in Discipline at Columbia University, where she created and led first-year writing seminars on sustainable development and medical humanities. She also taught writing to graduate students in the Neuroscience Department and in the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences. At Columbia, Abby helped found Neuwrite, Columbia’s association of writers and scientists. She is a Fulbright Grant recipient and has won residencies at the Ucross Foundation and Jentel Artist Residency Program.

Jacqueline Reitzes

Originally from Atlanta, Jackie Reitzes holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Fiction from Cornell University. She has published short stories in  Epoch, The Nashville Review  (for which she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize),  Iron Horse Literary Review  and  The Madison Review,  and her non-fiction has appeared in  The Huffington Post ,  ESPN: The Magazine , and  The Minneapolis Star Tribune . She was a 2012 Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow. A lover of contemporary fiction and American lit, she is currently at work on a short story collection. In 2022, Jackie won the College of Arts and Science Golden Dozen Teaching award. Jackie can be reached at  [email protected] .

Raymond Ricketts

Raymond J. Ricketts is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program. He previously taught writing and English literature at Bryn Mawr College, where he also served as visiting director of the Writing Center. Ricketts holds a Ph.D. from Rutgers University; his dissertation focused on eighteenth century British literature and performance. A former classical ballet dancer, Ricketts performed with the Chicago City Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet Theater.

Sahar Romani

Sahar Romani teaches writing as a mode of inquiry, critical thinking, and discovery. As a poet with academic training in human geography and ethnography, she integrates the arts and social sciences in her undergraduate teaching.

Sahar's poetry has been published in The Yale Review , The Believer , The Los Angeles Review , Guernica , Poetry Society of America, and elsewhere. She’s received fellowships and support from Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Poets House, Clarendon Fund, Millay Arts, Hedgebrook, and NYU’s Creative Writing Program, where she earned her MFA in Poetry. Sahar also holds a PhD in Geography from Oxford University, MA in South Asian Studies from University of Washington, and BA in English from Seattle University. 

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Cynthia Chen

Cynthia Chen is a member of the class of 2023 at NYU, majoring in Performance Studies with a minor in Creative Writing focusing on poetry. Cynthia considers her research focus on the absurd spectacles and the spectacular absurdity after she found herself getting fascinated by the tiny things and events happening on a daily basis. Her belief in writing as a mode of interrogating and illuminating the “every day” is what fuels her creative work the most, as she has a constant urge to defamiliarize the normal and mundane. While her poetic voice carries a rebellion against the anticipation of how womanhood and self are expressed, her writing strives to be bizarre and original, marked by the frequency of “pigeons”, “cows”, and “moan” in her weird poems.

Title of Capstone Project

Idling Idol: An exploration of the poetics of triviality and ordinariness through a pigeon obsession

Description of Capstone Project

This capstone project comprises a manuscript with a collection of writings that involve, stem from, triggered, and inspired by observations of pigeons in the city. Accompanied by a recorded performance adopting the manuscript as a score, the project aims to reactivate the strange banalities as well as cultivate the emotional and imaginative capacities of seemingly trivial images. Inspired by Teju Cole’s “on small fates”, “Idling Idol” is a manifesto for the inquiry, obsession, empathy, interpellation, and interpretation of ordinary life.

What Inspired Your Project?

Inspired by Teju Cole’s “on small fates”, “Idling Idol” is a manifesto for the inquiry, obsession, empathy, interpellation, and interpretation of ordinary life.