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In the face of student and faculty frustration with the high selectivity of the English Department’s creative thesis program, Department Chair James Engell has requested another full-time faculty position charged with teaching and advising creative writers.
According to Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Kyoko Mori, who coordinates the English Department’s creative writing program, Engell’s push comes partly in response to an unusually high degree of dissatisfaction from students whose creative thesis applications were rejected this year. Playwrights in particular, she said, were...
“We don’t have enough faculty to take on all of the creative writing thesis applications that we feel merit attention,” he said.
The dearth of advisors has been felt by applicants such as Jillian E. Gagnon ’06, whose application to write a novella was rejected this year. Gagnon, who has taken two semesters of creative writing, first began formulating the idea for her creative thesis “about...
This song is a black hole from which nothing can escape, not even light. “I wanna freak in the morning, freak in the evening,” is Ms. Howard’s thesis, which she supplements with such brilliant supporting arguments as “we...