English · Boston College
This advanced, cross-genre workshop is designed to push the boundaries both of the imagination and of traditional literary categories. Drawing inspiration from hybrid-experimentalists including Ryszard Kapuciski, Natasha Trethewey, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Italo Calvino, Robert Coover, Simon Schama, and Eula Biss, among others, participants will pursue projects that question the supposed hard lines between fiction/non-fiction, poetry/prose, journalism/personal narrative, and even text/image. Coursework will occasionally take us outside of the classroom--to a robotics lab, an automobile museum, a