The City and the Writer - Florence

(3 Credits)

How do cities shape the stories we tell, the languages we speak, and the forms our writing takes? How has literature reimagined urban space and transformed our understanding of identity, memory, and belonging? This course invites students to produce new creative works - poems, visual essays, short stories, plays, or films - inspired by Florence. Through readings, workshops, and field explorations, students will examine urban life across disciplines and borders, tracing journeys through real and imagined spaces while engaging questions of migration, culture, translation, and place. Students will have the unique opportunity to meet numerous residents of Florence, from theater makers, designers, architects, artists, filmmakers, feminists, actors, comedians and chefs.