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...different ways.“Writing takes a lot of mental energy,” says Shoshanna L. Fine ’10, one of few students accepted to write a creative thesis. “I’m fortunate that there is a creative track in the English department that allows me to prioritize writing.”Fine, now in her third fiction workshop with Senior Lecturer Bret A. Johnston, acknowledges that the formal deadlines of a workshop are helpful in sustaining her writing. “There is so much going on that I can?...
...your writing muscle, “ Hayes said. “Professor Morrison, my expository writing professor, was fantastic, and although the course itself was stressful, I was able to add to my toolbox and think critically and analytically.”CREATIVELY WORKINGLike the College’s English Department, the Extension School’s creative writing program covers a wide range of genres—from playwriting and memoir to novels. For students like Hayes who are seeking to develop their writing, the range of courses provides ample space for exploration. Hayes, who is specially interested...
...Classics. He was half of 2005’s American Parliamentary Debate Team of the Year. And he has also written a children’s book. He seems vaguely aware of the unorthodoxy of his situation. While his debate friends were going off to law school, Kimel taught English in a South Korean steel factory instead. “It was like being in a Charles Dickens book,” he recalls. “It was at that time that I started looking back at happier times, especially my childhood.”Kimel now makes...
Jamaica Kincaid sees writing as an “accompaniment” to the rest of one’s life. “You can do anything and still be devoted to writing,” the visiting lecturer in English says. Her thesis advisee Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04 is living proof of that belief—Iweala’s creative senior thesis was published as the well-received novel “Beasts of No Nation.” And if writing a novel during college isn’t impressive enough...
...fiction. When Ganeshananthan entered Harvard in the fall of ’98, she already knew she wanted to be a writer. This knowledged helped focus her academic career. “I wanted to write a creative thesis and the only way I could do that was in English, so I knew I wanted to be an English major and get certain grades,” she says. Under the guidance of Professor Jamaica Kincaid, Ganeshananthan completed her creative thesis. Seven years and about 150 pages later, she turned it into her first novel, “Love Marriage...