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Feminist Fabulist Fiction — LIT2298.01

Instructor: Anna Maria Hong
Credits: 4
Reading works by Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Angela Carter, Clarice Lispector, A. S. Byatt, Natsuo Kirino, James Tiptree, Jr., John Keene, Lindsey Drager, Han Kang, and others, we will investigate the realm of fabulist fiction or literary works invoking the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We will read short stories, novels, and novellas that emphasize

Feminist Writing by Women of Color, 1970s-80s — LIT2543.01

Instructor: Franny Choi
Credits: 4
1970 was a watershed year for Black feminism, with the publication of several monumental books including The Black Woman: An Anthology, edited by Toni Cade Bambara. How did women writers of color contend with race, class, gender, and sexuality in the decades leading up to the coining of the term “intersectionality?” What works from this period were foundational for

Fiction from Fact — LIT2389.02

Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
In this writing intensive class, students will develop fictions from documented historical, scientific, urban, and pastoral events, including mysteries, texts, and rumors. Our readings will include stories by Andrea Barrett, Ricardo Piglia, Patrick Modiano, Natalia Ginzburg, among others. Some research will be involved. This course is offered in the second seven weeks of the

Fiction in a Flash: Reading and Writing the Short Story — LIT4285.01

Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
Take a quick scan on any table in a bookstore and you'll see that the short story collection is having a renaissance. These bite-sized literary gems have the ability to push boundaries, explore themes, and take abrupt twists that the long-form novel just can't navigate. The short story is the hummingbird, turning on a dime, and always surprising the reader in the direction it

Fitzgerald and Hemingway — LIT2275.01

Instructor: doug bauer
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were arguably the preeminent literary figures in America in the first quarter of the Twentieth century. Their work and their lives were both closely intertwined and dramatically contrasting. Each came from the conservative Midwest. Each enjoyed stunning early success. Each made his permanent mark in a very different fashion as a

From Mary Wollstonecraft to Rachel Zucker: Toward a Postmodern Matriarchy — LIT2508.01

Instructor: Elisa Albert
Credits: 4
As the 21st century awakens to the human rights issues within childbearing and rearing, Wollstonecraft and Zucker can serve as illuminating bookends.  From the Vindication of The Rights of Women to Home/Birth: A Poemic, poetry and prose will help guide our understanding of an essential movement toward a politically and spiritually evolved biological feminism.

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Annie DeWitt
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading and Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and comprehensive introduction to the workshop method. We will exploring the genres of poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build working knowledge on the craft of creative writing. Students will complete weekly writing

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01) (new faculty as of 8/22/2024

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
The art of creative writing is also the art of being a witness to the world. In this class, we will learn what forms creative writing can take—focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction—and discover new ways to see the raw materials of our lives.We will exercise our imaginations through generative experiments and keeping an observation notebook; identify

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Stuart Nadler
Credits: 4
This class will serve as a comprehensive introduction both to the craft of creative writing and also to the workshop method. Throughout the term, we will explore poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build a working knowledge of the craft and to help students begin to find their way into their own narratives and poems. Every week class will feature

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and rigorous introduction to the workshop method. We will experiment with various approaches to the craft of writing in three different genres: poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction. Students will complete writing assignments every

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2566.01

Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

In an interview with the Paris Review in 1984, James Baldwin spoke of creative writing as a means of "finding out": "When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway." This is writing as a form of

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Jenny Boully
Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts from

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01, section 1

Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
In this highly generative class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2566.01

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Creative writing is a method not just of expression, but of deep attention: thus we will begin our journey to the blank page by looking, with wonder and precision, at pages filled by such masters of craft as Cathy Park Hong, Robyn Schiff, Nathaniel Mackey, Ben Lerner, Miranda July, Mariana Enriquez, and Souvankham Thammavongsa. Our reading assignments, which will span poetry

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. Students will read a variety of texts, both

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Jenny Boully
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.02, section 2

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The art of creative writing is also the art of being a witness to the world. In this class, we will learn what forms creative writing can take—focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction—and discover new ways to see the raw materials of our lives.We will exercise our imaginations through generative experiments and keeping an observation notebook; identify

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading and Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and comprehensive introduction to the workshop method. We will exploring the genres of poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build working knowledge on the craft of creative writing. Students will complete weekly writing

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts from

Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2527.01) (time updated as of 10/17/2023

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
What makes a poem a poem as opposed to a piece of fiction or an essay? Does every essay have to “tell the truth”? What about fiction that is purely autobiographical? This class will look at the various genres of creative writing and think about how, where, and why we draw lines between these modes. We will begin by studying the basic elements of poetry (line, image, stanza),

Fundamentals of Reading and Writing Poetry — LIT2323.01

Instructor: mark wunderlich
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
How are poems made? What are poems for? What is the relationship between music, movement, visual pattern, and poetry? What do we mean when we say something is "poetic?" In this course, students will find answers to these questions by reading poems, meeting and listening to visiting poets, writing their own poems, and writing and speaking critically about contemporary and

Genesis — HIS2220.01

Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of

Genesis — HIS2220.01

Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of

Genesis — HIS2220.01

Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of