Creative Writing

The goal of the Literature and Creative Writing Department is to help students develop a sophisticated understanding of the role literature plays in the human experience through refining their skills as interpreters of literary texts and as writers, either of literary analysis or of their own creative works.

Literature Students Will Learn to:

Write clear and well supported arguments about literary and/or other cultural texts
Demonstrate knowledge of diverse literary traditions across historical periods, geographic regions, and/or social contexts
Analyze literary works compellingly in contexts informed by literary criticism and/or broader regions, and/or social contexts

Creative Writing Students Will Learn to:

Write with an awareness of the literary traditions within which they are working
Write with attentiveness to form and genre
Write a sustained creative project that demonstrates originality and attention to language

Meet Our Faculty

Zhuoyi Wang

Chair, Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures

zwang@hamilton.edu

Chinese cinema and literature

Junqing (Jessie) Jia

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese)

jjia@hamilton.edu

East Asian Languages and Literatures, Chinese language pedagogy, psychology of language learning

Masaaki Kamiya

Associate Professor of Japanese, Director of Linguistics

mkamiya@hamilton.edu

syntax, semantics, language acquisition, pragmatic and Japanese linguistics

Kyoko Omori

Associate Professor of Japanese

komori@hamilton.edu

modern Japanese literature, especially modernism and youth magazine culture; early 20th-century media, especially cinema and radio; and censorship and the Occupation Era, 1945-52

Kyoko Omori

Associate Professor of Japanese

komori@hamilton.edu

modern Japanese literature, especially modernism and youth magazine culture; early 20th-century media, especially cinema and radio; and censorship and the Occupation Era, 1945-52