Memory’s Imagination

Taking inspiration from the autobiographical work of newly minted Nobel Laureate, Annie Ernaux, we will examine and produce works of fiction, creative narrative non-fiction and hybrid texts that cleave, in that good old double-sense, to personal experience and/or personal passions. Works by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Michael Ondaatje, John Keene, Jessica Au and Svetlana Alexeivich will be on the menu to inform and inspire. Students can expect a substantial weekly reading load and should come to each class prepared to discuss the assigned texts and linked creative assignments.