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Creative Writing 200
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  Graduate School–Newark 2012–2014 Programs, Faculty, and Courses Creative Writing 200  

Creative Writing 200

Degree Program Offered: Master of Fine Arts

Director:
Jayne Anne Phillips, 43 Bleeker Street, 973-353-1107 (email: japhillips@andromeda.rutgers.edu)

Website: www.ncas.rutgers.edu/mfa

Members of the Graduate Writing Faculty

Professors:
 

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

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)

Associate Professors:

Rigoberto Gonzalez, M.F.A., Arizona State; Poetry
Latino Literature; 20th-century ethnic American literature

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

John Keene, FAS-N; M.F.A., New York; Creative Writing (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction)
African-American and African diasporic studies; 20th- and 21st-century American studies; LGBTQ studies; poetics and narratology; aesthetic theory

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

Akhil Sharma, FAS-N; J.D., Harvard; Creative Writing, Fiction
19th-century Russian fiction; Hemingway; V.S. Naipaul; travel writing; publishing and editing; fantastic fictions

Brenda Shaughnessy, FAS-N; M.F.A., Columbia; Poetry, Poetics
Asian-American literature; contemporary poetry

 
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