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  • ENGL 1180: Special Topics in Creative Nonfiction

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL 0130, 0160, 0180, 1140, 1160, 1180, or 1190. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. S/NC.
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  • ENGL 1180A: Crime Writing

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    This course offers students the opportunity to study crime reportage. We will read and analyze excerpts from classics in the genre, magazine articles, and newspaper accounts. Students will develop semester-long individual writing projects covering a particular crime, and can work either with Providence and Brown University police on a local incident, or research a case through secondary source material.
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  • ENGL 1180E: Lifewriting

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    Features theoretical and practical study of lifewriting's various forms--memoir, diary, essay, and autobiography-- and the crafting of personal narrative. Students read books, view films, and keep an electronic diary and paper notebook. Requirements include a personal critical essay and autobiography.
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  • ENGL 1180F: Literary Journalism

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    Focusing on the craft of literary techniques in a range of journalistic modes, we will read John McPhee, Diane Ackerman, Ian Frazier, Susan Orlean and Tracy Kidder, among others. Workshops and conferences on student work, which can include personal essays, immersion journalism, researched argumentative essays and magazine-style feature articles. Complete and polish several shorter pieces and one longer feature-length article.
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  • ENGL 1180G: Lyricism and Lucidity

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    For the advanced writer. This course will explore two subsets of the personal essay that blur or cross boundary lines--the lyric essay and the photographic essay-- in both traditional and experimental formats. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL 0130, 0160, 0180, or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
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  • ENGL 1180J: Tales of the Real World

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    For the advanced writer, this section offers a chance to practice the pleasures and challenges of nonfiction analysis and story-telling in the forms of literary journalism, historical narrative, and personal essay or memoir. Inspirations will include Truman Capote, Sebastian Junger, Jamaica Kinkaid, and Maxine Hong Kingston. Intensive practice in researching, interviewing, redrafting, and editing.
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  • ENGL 1180K: The Art of Literary Nonfiction

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    For the advanced writer. Based on Roland Barthes' notion of the fragment, this workshop features an incremental, literary approach to writing nonfiction, in both traditional and experimental formats. In response to daily assignments, students will produce numerous short pieces and three extended "essays," to be gathered into a chapbook at the end of the course. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL 0130, 0160, 0180, or any 1000-level nonfiction writing course. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor approval. S/NC.
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  • ENGL 1180L: Travel Writing: In the Domain of the Other

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    For the advanced writer. Huck Finn's intention "to light out for the Territory" reflects a pervasive desire to be somewhere else. Restless curiosity about the Other affects travel, writing about travel, and reading about travel. Will concentrate on contemporary travel writers (Heat-Moon, Didion, Chatwin, numerous others) and experiment with various types of narrative structures.
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  • ENGL 1180M: Special Delivery: Letters and Diaries

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    For the advanced writer. While letters and diaries are constrained by "dailiness"--the writer's informal situation in time--they often form the basis of more formal communications, including the novel. We will keep diaries as self-conscious intellectual enterprises and write letters to address their roles in various literary modes. The final project will be an epistolary essay incorporating structures and motifs from both sub-genres. Writing sample required. Prerequisite: ENGL 0130, 0160, or 0180, or instructor permission. Class list will be reduced to 17 after writing samples are reviewed during the first week of classes. Preference will be given to English concentrators. Banner registrations after classes begin require instructor permission.
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  • ENGL 1180N: The Longer Literary Essay

    1.00 Credits
    Brown University

    We will focus on reflective essays and researched investigations for the non-scholarly reader, like those in The New Yorker, Science Times, and Harper's. Students learn to develop lengthier pieces, translate technical information, and sustain reader interest. Class consists of discussion of readings, workshops, and occasional visits by professional writers.
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