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  Graduate School-Newark 2008-2010 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Creative Writing 200  

Creative Writing 200

Degree Program Offered: Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
                              (Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction)

Website: www.mfa.newark.rutgers.edu

Director:
Jayne Anne Phillips, Room 624, Hill Hall, 973-353-5279, ext. 624
                  Email: japhillips@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Members of the Graduate Writing Faculty

Professors:


H. Bruce Franklin, FAS-N; Ph.D., Stanford; Nonfiction
Literature and the third world; science fiction; utopian and anti-utopian literature; American literature; literature and technology; literature and crime; literature and revolution

Rachel Hadas, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton; Poetry
Creative writing (poetry); 20th-century American and English poetry; classics in translation

Jayne Anne Phillips, FAS-N; M.F.A., Iowa; Creative Writing, Fiction
Contemporary fiction (novel, short stories, essays)

Lewis Porter, FAS-N; Ph.D., Brandeis; Visual and Performing Arts, Nonfiction
Jazz history and research; piano performance

Associate Professors:

James Goodman, FAS-N; Ph.D., Princeton; Nonfiction
Twentieth-century United States; race; politics, history, and fiction; narrative history

Rigoberto Gonzalez, M.F.A., Arizona State; Poetry
Latino literature

Assistant Professor:

Tayari Jones, FAS-N; M.F.A., Arizona State; Creative Writing, Fiction

Visiting Professors:

Dennis Nurkse, (Spring 2008); B.A., Harvard; Poetry

James Hoch, (Fall 2008); M.F.A., Maryland; Poetry

Visiting Lecturer:

 
Alice Elliott Dark, FAS-N; M.F.A., Antioch; Creative Writing, Fiction

 
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