| AS.220.609 (01) |
Readings in Fiction: Adaptation |
T 2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Evans, Danielle V |
Gilman 138D |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: In this course we will consider the project of contemporary adaptation. Why are writers drawn to retellings? What makes something true enough to its source text(s) to be considered an adaptation but original enough to be more than a copy? When is adaptation an homage and when is it critique? How does a writer interested in contemporary questions of representation and identity approach a text with problematic or dated framing? How does an adapted text work with or against readers’ expectations for plot and structure? Works discussed may include selections by Percival Everett, Jennine Capo Crucet, Isabella Hammad, Mat Johnson, Carmen Maria Machado, Helen Oyeyemi, and Julian Barnes, in conversation with complete or excerpted source texts by Shakespeare, Melville, Flaubert, Poe, and Mark Twain. Alongside the reading and seminar discussion, students will work on a proposed adaptation of their own and workshop both the concept and an excerpt of their projects.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 0/8
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.624 (01) |
Fiction Workshop |
Th 2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Puchner, Eric P |
Gilman 138D |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: Discussion and critique of fiction manuscripts by students enrolled in the MFA program. Some assignments possible.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 0/8
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.626 (01) |
Poetry Workshop |
F 2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Snider, Bruce H |
Gilman 138D |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: In this course, students will submit original poems for class critique. On average, a new poem will be due every other week for comment and discussion the following week. Students should read each other’s work carefully, provide written response, and arrive prepared to discuss the poems in class. At the end of the semester, a final portfolio of revised poetry, along with a brief articulation of revision strategies, will be due. Since I assume all of you are at work on book-length manuscripts, we will also read and discuss several recent books, comparing subjects, themes, styles, and structures as we consider the broader issues posed by a larger poetic project.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 0/8
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.627 (01) |
Readings in Poetry: Shakespeare and Modern Poetry |
W 2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Yezzi, David D |
Gilman 138D |
Spring 2026 |
- Description: This course explores the presence of Shakespeare as a source in modern poetry and as a potential resource for student writing. We will discuss the connections between King Lear, Hamlet, and The Tempest and poems by W. H. Auden, Langston Hughes, Hyam Plutzik, Emily Dickinson, Rita Dove, and others.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 0/8
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.805 (01) |
Teaching Assistant |
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Robinson, Shannon L |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: For Writing Seminars MFA students. This indicates they are actively participating as a TA as required by the program.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 0/14
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.806 (01) |
The Hopkins Review Managing Editor |
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Malech, Dora |
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Spring 2026 |
- Description: For Writing Seminars MFA students. This indicates that they are actively participating as a managing editor for The Hopkins Review.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Closed
- Seats Available: 0/2
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.803 (01) |
Summer Independent Research |
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Arthur, James P |
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Summer 2026 |
- Description: Summer independent research for graduate students.
- Credits: 9.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 8/16
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.615 (01) |
Readings in Fiction: First Books |
F 2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Tenorio, Lysley A |
Gilman 138D |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: In this course, we’ll read first novels and story collections from established and new writers, and discuss what distinguishes these books, and how they establish a singular vision and voice. What makes these debuts so noteworthy? What do these first-time authors demonstrate in terms of artistry and vision, craft and technique? And how do they, as novelist Ayana Mathis says, “articulate the inarticulable” and demonstrate a “distinct singularity of the mind?” As writers working on your own first books, our discussions will hopefully raise questions and concerns relevant to your material, vision, and process.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 6/8
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.623 (01) |
Fiction Workshop |
W 2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Evans, Danielle V |
Gilman 138D |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 6/8
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.625 (01) |
Poetry Workshop |
T 2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Motion, Andrew P |
Gilman 138D |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 6/8
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.628 (01) |
Readings in Poetry: Documentary, Investigative, and Social Poetics |
Th 2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Russell, Lauren M |
Gilman 138D |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: Documentary poetics arises from the idea that poetry is not a museum-object to be observed from afar but a dynamic medium that informs and is informed by history,” the poet Philip Metres writes. How have poets used their craft to document, to memorialize, to ask hard questions, to recenter marginalized voices, to uncover secrets and buried histories, to reclaim narratives, and to demand justice? What challenges arise in the course of research-based poetic projects, and what are the ethical implications of making poetry from appropriated documents and real events? In this course, we will explore poetry as a social practice “that informs and is informed by history,” drawing on works of documentary and investigative poetics written over the last hundred years. In addition to reading, discussion, and critical writing, students will have the opportunity to pursue their own documentary and investigative poetics projects.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 6/8
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.646 (01) |
Readings in Pedagogy: Teaching Fiction and Poetry |
M 2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Robinson, Shannon L |
Gilman 138D |
Fall 2026 |
- Description: 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.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 8/8
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.805 (01) |
Teaching Assistant |
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Robinson, Shannon L |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: For Writing Seminars MFA students. This indicates they are actively participating as a TA as required by the program.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 12/14
- Tags: n/a
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| AS.220.806 (01) |
The Hopkins Review Managing Editor |
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Malech, Dora |
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Fall 2026 |
- Description: For Writing Seminars MFA students. This indicates that they are actively participating as a managing editor for The Hopkins Review.
- Credits: 3.00
- Status: Open
- Seats Available: 2/2
- Tags: n/a
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