Northeast Ohio
Master of Fine Arts
Northeast Ohio
Master of Fine Arts
IN CREATIVE WRITING
IN CREATIVE WRITING
IN CREATIVE WRITING
IN CREATIVE WRITING
NEXT EVENT: READING + Q&A
Remote Reading & Q&A with National Book Critics Award-winning poet,
Ada Limón
Friday October 9th, 2020
7:00 PM, over Zoom
Free & open to the public!
FEATURED STUDENTS
2020 Graduates
Give it up for the class of 2020! Although we can’t celebrate our graduates’ many accomplishments in person, we want to give them each the spotlight they deserve.
Current Students
Questions about courses, registration, requirements, internships, or your thesis? Find out everything you need to know on our Current Students page.
Prospective Students
Are you ready to join Ohio’s most beloved MFA writing consortium? Well you’re in luck—we’d love to have you. It’s time to broaden your horizons.
FALL 2020
Upcoming Courses
CREATIVE NONFICTION
The Forms of Love: Writing a Community Memoir
The history of memoir is rife with “I”; self as subject, source, and point of view. In this class we’ll discuss what happens when the story of the self relies upon or requires the stories of others to be told. We’ll discuss such social formal strategies as epistolary, conversation, case study, inquiry, retelling, oral history, interview, chorus, and collage. We’ll consider the boundaries between inclusivity and appropriation; the responsibility involved in getting a communal account correct; and how we might think of memoir not as the secret story of the self but crucial public work.
LITERATURE
Reading, Writing, Seeing: Issues in Contemporary American Screenwriting
Although it has long been a truism in Hollywood that the screenwriter gets no respect, this class will examine the work of contemporary American screenwriters as well as help students master the unique style and format of screenwriting. In this class, we will read both contemporary American screenplays from a variety of genres and screenplay theory by leading theorists of the form, including Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell, Rosamund Davies, J. J. Murphy, and others. Along the way, we will watch and analyze several films and produce both analyses of already-produced screenplays as well as portions of our own screenplays.
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English Department
Kent State University
P.O. Box 5190
Kent, Ohio 44242