RE: [New-Poetry] An Era of Détente for Creative-Writing Programs

[Skip Fox]

Re: easy M.F.A. teaching jobs . . .

 

There are different types of programs of course. Where I teach we have a
creative writing concentration at the MA and PhD levels, but all of us teach
at least sophomore surveys and well as upper-division major-figures courses
as well as seminars. A strictly graduate-level workshop in a genre can be
expected every 2-3 years. Undergraduate workshops every semester, and
combined graduate-undergraduate workshops ever 1 to 2 years. Not to mention
committee work, advising, search committees, etc.

 

I’m sure there is a wide spectrum of the kinds of teaching and professional
duties in creative writing programs from ones like ours (University of
Louisiana at Lafayette) to writer-in-residence positions at Stanford.

 

(By the way, I have no credentials reflecting creative writing. I got a
“straight” literature Ph.D. specializing in twentieth-century American lit.)

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