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Creative Writing

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Departmental Information

Undergraduate Director
Sam Lipsyte
612 Lewisohn
854-3765
writingprogram@columbia.edu

Executive Committee on Undergraduate Creative Writing
Prof. Sam Lipsyte
Writing Division, School of the Arts
415 Dodge
854-3765

Prof. Ben Marcus (chair)
Writing Division, School of the Arts
415 Dodge
854-4391

Prof. Alan Ziegler
Writing Division, School of the Arts
415 Dodge
854-4391

Professors
Lucie Brock-Broido
Michael Janeway
Margo Jefferson
Richard Locke
David Plante
Mark Strand
Alan Ziegler

Associate Professors
Jaime Manrique
Ben Marcus
Patricia O’Toole

Assistant Professors
Stacey D’Erasmo
Timothy Donnelly
Sam Lipsyte
Gary Shteyngart

Lecturers
Joshua Bell
Amy Benson
Rebecca Curtis

Adjunct Professor
Lawrence Van Gelder

Adjunct Associate Professors
Colette Inez
Edward Pomerantz
Phyllis Raphael
Louise Rose
Leslie Sharpe

Adjunct Assistant Professors
Ellis Avery
Cris Beam
Priscilla Becker
Wesley Brown
Sophie Cabot-Black
Loren Paul Caplin
Noemi Cress
Emily Fragos
Josh Green
Aaron Hamburger
Joanna Hershon
Karen Russel
Brenda Shaughnessy
Susan Thames
Dale Worsley

The creative writing program combines intensive writing workshops with seminars that study literature from a writer’s perspective. While students develop and hone their literary technique in workshops, the creative writing seminars (which explore literary technique as well as history) broaden their sense of possibility by exposing them to the various ways, historically, that language has been used to make art. As a supplement to the workshops and seminars, related courses for the major can be drawn from departments such as English, Comparative Literature and Society, Philosophy, History, and Anthropology, among others. Students determine, in consultation with their faculty advisers, the related courses that best inform their creative work.

The major in creative writing is by application only. Please see the Creative Writing Program Web site for details.

 

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