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...English department chooses a small and promising crop of English concentrators to write creative theses. Over the course of the next year, while most thesis writers are tracking down sources and reformatting bibliographies, these select few struggle to develop original written works in the genres of either poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction or dramatic writing...
...fair game,” she grinned, leaning forward and shaking a lock of sun-streaked hair from her face. Meeting weekly with her thesis advisor, novelist Suzanne Berne, Charity said she discovered “how hard it is to write good fiction—even just readable fiction.” Some of her stories, which average about 15 pages each, went through 20 drafts before she found them satisfactory, and even now she feels that her collection isn’t really finished. Intense as the experience was, “it was awesome to have...
...order to apply for a creative thesis, interested juniors must submit a sizable writing sample as well as a prospectus of the project they wish to undertake. Brad Watson, director of the creative writing program and advisor to several fiction theses, said if there was one piece of advice he could offer to those aspiring to write creative theses, it would be to take some of the fiction workshops offered by the department...
...addition, she will be working on a new course she plans to teach at Harvard next spring about Indian women in fiction and film...
Some professors may consider the sit-in “learning outside the classroom,” but ultimately that too is a fiction. We take courses on the classics to learn about the classics, and the purpose of government classes in an academic setting is to separate the study of political action from its pursuit. Describing the PSLM action as “learning”—and doling out benefits for participation—in courses devoted to subjects other than mass protests and wage policies can only mean allowing professors’ politics to replace...