Class Detail

Focuses on a particular process or subject used in the production of a literary text. Course is intended to work as a bridge between invention and scholarship. Course topic changes; please see the Class Search for current topic. May be repeated for credit.

From the instructor: This class will explore key methods for writing fiction from other sources, including continuing storylines, retelling events from different points of view, and transplanting stories to different places.
We will read fiction that retools literary and pop sources to new ends, including fanfiction, adaptations, and retellings. We will consider how fanfiction, adaptation, and revision have been used as means for talking back to the canon, with specific focus on feminist, queer, and post-colonial retellings of canonical works.
We will also situate fanfiction in a long history of literature that plays with sources, from Ovid's Heroines to contemporary literature. As a Methods and Materials class, this course bridges scholarship with creative writing.
Our discussions about materials and methods will provide the spark for your own writing projects. This will take the form of in-class writing, weekly assignments, and a short story (or beginning of a longer work) that you will submit for the midterm and continue revising for the final.
Everyone will submit their writing for workshop twice. Our class time will be divided between in-class writing, discussions, and workshops.

Days & Times	Room	Instructor	Meeting Dates
MW 01:00PM-04:30PM	N. Sci Annex 102	Staff	06/24/24 - 07/26/24