This course will use the sonnet form as a through line to consider both aesthetic shifts and the enduring lyric impulse across centuries of poetry in English, with a particular focus on how contemporary poets are working with the form through individual poems, sequences, and book-length works. Coursework will include reading, critical writing and presentation, discussion, and completion of an original lyric sequence.

• Days/Times: F 2:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Malech, Dora Rachel
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

In this course, we’ll read, analyze, and discuss debut works of fiction from the last three decades that have had an impact on the contemporary landscape. What makes these particular books so noteworthy? What do they demonstrate in terms of artistry and vision, craft and technique, and what can we learn from how they approach their particular subjects and themes? To further our discussions, we’ll also read critical reviews, author interviews, and welcome an author or two for a class visit. Students should also be prepared to lead discussion on at least one course text.

• Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Tenorio, Lysley A
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Discussion and critique of fiction manuscripts by students enrolled in the MFA program. Some assignments possible.

• Days/Times: W 2:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Evans, Danielle V
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Discussion and critique of poetry drafts by students enrolled in the MFA program. Some reading and writing assignments possible.

• Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Arthur, James P
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

For Writing Seminars MFA students. This indicates they are actively participating as a TA as required by the program.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Robinson, Shannon L
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

For Writing Seminars MFA students. This indicates that they are actively participating as a managing editor for The Hopkins Review.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Malech, Dora Rachel
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/2
• PosTag(s): n/a

Summer independent research for graduate students.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Arthur, James P
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 8/16
• PosTag(s): n/a

In this MFA workshop, we will read and write long poems, longish poems, sequences, and series, giving students expansive space to pursue their driving interests as we explore a variety of approaches to sustaining longer poems and series. There will be regular reading and writing assignments, and students will share drafts for class discussion.

• Days/Times: F 2:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Russell, Lauren M
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

The classes will be divided into two parts. In the first we’ll look at significant British and Irish poets of the post-war period, paying particular attention to the ways in which an idea of ‘the centre’ has eroded, and given way to a markedly more diverse literary culture. In the second half, we’ll look at poems written by members of the class - two per session.

• Days/Times: W 2:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Motion, Andrew P
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

Fiction graduate students in the MFA program of The Writing Seminars will meet weekly to discuss the work of their fellow graduate students. Each student can expect to share their work three times in the course of the term, and for the work of two students to be discussed every week. Students can also expect to share their response to the works under discussion on the class Canvas page in advance of each week’s meeting.

• Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Tenorio, Lysley A
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

For Writing Seminars MFA students. This indicates they are actively participating as a TA as required by the program.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Robinson, Shannon L
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 8/14
• PosTag(s): n/a

In 2011 Guardian columnist Zoe Williams published "Should We Ditch Fiction in Times of Crisis?" Williams' subtitle summarized her argument: "When our daily news is apocalyptic, it's irresponsible to read made-up stories.” Fourteen years later the world is as mired in crisis as ever and Williams’ question is no less provoking to consider, as are the other questions it raises. What business does the novel have tackling politics? What business does the novel have not tackling politics? What do we even mean by ‘politics’? In this course we’ll think about the relationship of the novel to politics, and the category of the ‘political novel:’ is it a novel about the political process? A novel with a discernible political or ideological posture? A novel about the impact of politics on personal lives? All of the above and more? We’ll read approximately 6 novels, some of which will be imposed autocratically, and some of which will be chosen democratically. Readings may include such novels as: James The Plot Against America Home Fire The Handmaid’s Tale The Line of Beauty Flight Behavior 1984 All the King’s Men Ragtime The Sellout The Book of Laughter and Forgetting The Reluctant Fundamentalist Lost Children Archive The Abbess of Crewe Eat the Document

• Days/Times: T 2:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Choi, Susan
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

A graduate course designed to develop both close reading and genre study, and to support the teaching of Introduction to Fiction and Poetry (IFP) I and II. Readings in selected works of American, English, and European poetry and short fiction. Course required by all graduate students in the MFA program.

• Days/Times: M 2:00PM - 5:00PM
• Instructor: Robinson, Shannon L
• Room: Gilman 138D
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): n/a

For Writing Seminars MFA students. This indicates that they are actively participating as a managing editor for The Hopkins Review.

• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Malech, Dora Rachel
• Room:  
• Status: Closed
• Seats Available: 0/2
• PosTag(s): n/a