ENG 509 - Literary Forum: John Fowles Center Contemporary Writers Core

Prerequisite, admission to the MA in English, MFA in creative writing, or the dual degree program. Literary Forum studies six contemporary authors and their work in conjunction with a lecture and reading series sponsored by the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing. Lectures and/or readings conducted by novelists, poets, critics, screenwriters, and creative non-fiction writers held every year during the spring semester and the reading and analysis assignments are based on the visiting writers’ works. This course will focus not only on the series’ writers, but on contemporary writing in general both in the Americas and in Europe. May be repeated for credit. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits