Ofstad Visiting Scholar Offers Two-week Creative Non-fiction Course for Students

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This November, students will have the opportunity to participate in a two-week course led by Ofstad Visiting Scholar Steffan Triplett, author of the hybrid memoir “Bad Forecast” and managing director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.

Triplett’s course, “Creative Nonfiction: Stuff Beyond the Self,” will explore how media, art and cultural objects can function in nonfiction writing beyond the familiar modes of review or recap. Students will consider how these cultural materials can serve as anchor points for personal essays and longer-form nonfiction works. The class will examine what it means for thought to be personal, for interpretation to be “true,” and for nonfiction to address broader social structures and contemporary contexts. Readings will include works by Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Edgar Gomez, April Yee and others.

The class will meet from 10:30-11:20 a.m. Monday-Friday Nov. 3-14 in Baldwin Hall 302. 

Students wishing to enroll in either the undergraduate or graduate section of the course should complete an add/drop form and submit it to Will Murphy, English secretary, in McClain Hall 310. Students will not be assessed a late add fee for this course. Pre-filled add/drop forms are available for pickup in Emily Long Olsen’s office, McClain Hall 329, or in the Department Office, McClain Hall 310. The undergraduate course section is listed under CRN 7462, and the graduate course section under CRN 7463.

Further information about Triplett and his work can be found at steffantriplett.com.
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