Creative Writing

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Prof. Sam Lipsyte, 612 Lewisohn Hall; 854-3765; sam.lipsyte@columbia.edu

Executive Committee on Undergraduate Creative Writing
Prof. Sam Lipsyte, Writing Division, School of the Arts, 415 Dodge; 854-3765; sam.lipsyte@columbia.edu
Prof. Ben Marcus (chair), Writing Division, School of the Arts, 415 Dodge; 854-4391; bm415@columbia.edu
Prof. Alan Ziegler, Writing Division, School of the Arts, 415 Dodge; 854-4391; az8@columbia.edu

• http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing

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 Gel

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 at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/writing/ for details.