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.

This interdisciplinary Creative Writing course invites students to approach archives not as dusty vaults of the past, but as living sites of possibility, omission, and creative intervention. Drawing on Archival Theory and Memory Studies, we will examine what archives are built to preserve, what they are structured to forget, and what they actively erase. Students will work with materials of their choosing, whether a UCSC Special Collection, a family photo album, a digital trace, or another repository, to create original work that experiments with hybrid narrative forms. Our tools will include critical fabulation, auto/biographical writing, and storytelling that attends to ghostly traces, entangling past, present, and future. The course includes regular peer workshops and sustained development of individual creative projects.
Students will have ample writing time to develop a creative and/or critical project that engages deeply with an archive of their choosing.

Days & Times	Room	Instructor	Meeting Dates
TuTh 09:00AM-12:30PM	Hum & Soc Sci 350	Berry,A.K.	06/23/25 - 07/25/25