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
Junqing (Jessie) Jia
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese)
Chinese language pedagogy, with emphasis on development of language learning motivation; research-based curriculum design and material development; gamification in foreign language learning
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
Modern Chinese literature, comparative poetics, modernist poetry, avant-garde poetry, lyricism, literature and urbanization
Elementary education, Chinese language pedagogy
Second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and intercultural interaction
Contact
Department Name
Creative Writing Department
Clinton, NY 13323
