English · Boston College
Through the reading and writing of creative nonfiction essays, we will use place as a lens through which to explore the human relationship to natural and built environments, as well as to ideas of home, travel, exile, place and displacement in our complex contemporary world. Students will write three essays (Home/Insider Essay; Place/Displacement Essay; Reported Place Profile) over the course of the semester and extensively revise and polish two of them. Readings may include work by Wendell Berry, Joan Didion, Ocean Vuong, Anne Dillard, Sarah Broom, Terry Tempest Williams, Natasha Tretheway, R
