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To enter the program a student must have achieved by the end of the junior year a 3.5 average in English courses (including courses in creative writing) and a 3.3 average overall. In addition to meeting the requirements for the Creative Writing Concentration, the candidate for Departmental Honors must:

  • Take at least three literature courses at the 400-level or higher in fulfilling requirement 4 of the Creative Writing Concentration.
  • Complete a six-credit Senior Creative Writing Project. The student undertaking this project normally registers for ENG 497, Special Topics/ Independent Study, for the first semester of the project, and ENG 499, Senior Creative Writing Project, for the second semester. The student must receive a grade of B or higher in both courses in order to qualify for honors.6 credits
  • Receive for the project a recommendation for honors by the director of the Senior Creative Writing Project and by one other faculty reader designated by the Director of Creative Writing.
  • Achieve an average in the major of at least 3.5, and an overall average of at least 3.3. Total: 36 credits

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Students may declare an English Minor in Creative Writing through their school or college. Submitting materials to the Creative Writing Program is not required for the minor. 

The student completes at least 15 credit hours at the 200-level or above beyond the credits earned for freshman composition.

A minimum grade of C- or better is required in each course and along with an overall GPA in the minor of 2.0 or better, 

Students pursuing both a major and a minor (or two majors) offered by the Department of English may double-count a maximum of two English courses toward the fulfillment of their degree requirements.  They must also have an additional major or minor in a department other than English.

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Growing in new directions

Alex Morgan

By Jordan Rogers

While she was working on her Ph.D. in English during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Alexandria Morgan began to worry about finding a job after graduation. 

“During the pandemic, I panicked about career prospects. I started doing informational interviews on Zoom with anyone who had a Ph.D. in English or the humanities,” said Morgan, a recent doctoral graduate from the English department at the University of Miami’s College of Arts and Sciences .

“I talked to a lot of people who worked in editing and publishing,” she added. “One person at the National Endowment for the Humanities said, ‘I think you’d find grants interesting. Look into grant writing.’”

As luck would have it, the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations in the University’s Development and Alumni Relations division was seeking a UGrow fellow for a position that required some grant writing and editing. This office works with faculty throughout the grant application process, from finding funding opportunities that fit with their goals, to applying (writing, editing, and liaising with budget and financial teams), to reporting back to the foundation about the work achieved with their support.

As Morgan was entering her fifth year of studies, she applied for the UGrow fellowship.

UGrow (Graduate Opportunities at Work) is a program within the College of Arts and Sciences that provides on-campus work opportunities in various University divisions to humanities graduate students.

Tim Watson , professor of English, helped develop the program in 2015 to ensure graduate students had the opportunity to explore alternatives to tenure-track academic jobs, particularly in light of the nationwide scarcity of humanities teaching jobs.

While humanities graduate students usually teach introductory courses in their respective academic departments as part of their degree requirements, UGrow instead places students across the University, giving them experience beyond research and teaching.

Applications open each spring for doctoral students in English, history, modern languages and literatures, and philosophy, as well as M.F.A. students in creative writing. Four to six students are selected annually through a competitive process, according to Joshua Cohn, the senior associate dean for research and graduate education in the College, who manages the program.

Morgan was accepted to the fellowship program for the 2021-22 academic year under an agreement allowing her to work online from Tucson, Arizona, where she had recently moved. Her writing and editing skills came in handy in her new position.

“I’ve always really enjoyed editing. It’s something I’ve kept with me from my time as a teacher, where you’re teaching students how to improve their writing,” she said. “Now, I use that ability to help faculty members writing their grant applications.”

In addition to grant writing and editing, Morgan leveraged the knowledge gained through her digital humanities experience to aid her new team in the development of a database for corporate and foundation grant opportunities. 

“We’d thought about creating a database like this for a long time,” said Shane Karas, director of corporate and foundation relations and Morgan’s supervisor. “When Alex joined, the skills that she brought helped our team to build out the database a lot quicker than we expected.” 

By all measures, the database has been an overwhelming success. “We have received feedback that it is one of the best of its kind in the nation,” said Karas.

Maintaining and managing the database is labor intensive; it requires constant updating. “It’s not a static list that we can create and just leave,” Karas explained.

As funding opportunities shift and change, Morgan is responsible for updating the database with the most recent information.

The Corporate and Foundation Grant Opportunity database is now a sophisticated, user-friendly resource. It currently holds over 1,400 funding opportunities for graduate students, medical students, postdoctoral fellows, and University faculty to peruse. The listed grants start at $10,000, often offering much more money to qualified applicants.

After her fellowship year, Morgan stayed on with the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations. She worked there as a student employee while completing her dissertation project.

Morgan successfully defended her dissertation in December 2023. “The Embodiment of Negative Desires in Early Modern Women’s Poetry” uses a queer-feminist approach to explore the representation of bodies in the work of Lucy Hutchinson, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn.

Upon concluding her studies, Morgan immediately transitioned into a permanent position as associate director of corporate and foundation relations.

The new career path rewards her sense of curiosity and keeps her on her toes.

“I am constantly learning about other kinds of research being done at the University, which I find really interesting and engaging,” she said.

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Carol Gelderman, former English professor and author known for her prolific writings, died March 8, 2024.

Carol Gelderman, former English professor and author known for her prolific writings, died March 8, 2024.

Carol Gelderman, an esteemed English professor at the University of New Orleans for more than three decades and the author of 10 books—including a biography of Henry Ford—died on March 8. She was 89.

After earning a doctorate from Northwestern University, Gelderman joined the University in 1972 and remained on the English faculty until her retirement in 2005. She was such a prolific and skilled writer that in 1993 she was named a Distinguished Professor, a prestigious title held by only five faculty members at any one time.  

Her 10 published books included two textbooks about business and professional writing. A passionate student of American politics, she analyzed presidential speech writing in “All the President’s Words: The Bully Pulpit and the Creation of the Virtual Presidency.” But Gelderman was best known for her biographies. A review of “Henry Ford: The Wayward Capitalist” made the cover of Business Week . Her biography of the writer Mary McCarthy, “Mary McCarthy: A Life,” was reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review.    

She continued to write throughout her life. “A Free Man of Color and His Hotel: Race, Reconstruction, and the Role of the Federal Government,” was published in 2012 when she was 77. In it, she examined the life of James Wormley, a free Black man who owned and operated the most luxurious hotel in Washington, D.C., from the 1850s until the 1880s.

In his eulogy of Gelderman, former UNO provost, English professor and founder of the Creative Writing Workshop Rick Barton called her a “scholar and acclaimed writer, a cherished teacher, a caring colleague and a loyal friend.”

“Despite all the long hours of intellectual effort it took to research and write these amazingly dissimilar 10 books, Carol shined in other aspects of her life as well,” Barton said. “We all know university faculty who publish important books and articles but don’t bother to put the same effort into their teaching duties. Not Carol Gelderman. She was as devoted a teacher as she was a scholar.”

Before receiving master’s and doctoral degrees from Northwestern, Gelderman worked for the American Embassy in London for a year and in public television in Chicago, conducting on-air interviews of visiting VIPs for a show called “Profile Chicago.” In addition to her 10 books, she wrote dozens of articles on topics as varied as theatre, biography, politics and mutual funds.

“Carol Gelderman was a vivacious, gregarious and affable person. She had friends all over New Orleans,” Barton said. “Carol was beloved by so many of us because she never practiced self-aggrandizement. She was a literary star, but you’d never learn about that from her.”

Colleagues and friends are planning to hold a memorial for Gelderman on UNO’s campus. Those details are incomplete.

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Miami creative writing majors have enjoyed considerable career success. A partial list of honors received by former students includes the Pulitzer Prize (one winner, one finalist), the National Medal of the Arts, the PEN/Robert Bingham Award for Fiction, the Asian American Literary Award, the Whiting Fellowship, and the national Poet Laureateship. Many creative writing majors pursue MFAs or other advanced degrees at top programs including The Iowa Writers Workshop, Columbia, Cambridge, and Brown. Majors pursue successful careers in publishing, editing, advertising, law, medicine, and the business world.

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Reading in 337 Bachelor Hall AND on Zoom

Thursday, November 16, 2023 7:30pm

Poets Isaac Pickell, an alumnus, and David Schloss, Miami Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, read from their new books of poetry. They were wonderful readings and it was great to see these familiar faces.

I was surprised to hear that David retired in 2011 (though he taught until 2014), because it didn’t seem long ago. Covid distorts time. He was one of the professors who hired me twenty years back, and those first years occupy a much larger space in my memory, time wise, than the years since.

I was also surprised to hear that Isaac got his MFA in 2017, because that didn’t seem long ago either. It was interesting to hear them back to back, because their approaches to poetry are very different, yet both deeply engrossing. I recommend you order their books. The Q & A was interesting too, so much so that if host Cathy Wagner hadn’t kept track of time the discussion could have gone on for hours. Though I regrettably don’t have a transcript, this photo comes from that exchange.

Their bios are below the photo. Thanks to those who came out.

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Isaac Pickell

A recent alum of Miami’s MFA program, Isaac Pickell is a Black & Jewish poet and PhD candidate at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he teaches and studies the borderlands of blackness and black literature. Isaac’s new book of poems  It’s Not Over Once You Figure It Out  is  available for pre-order  from Black Ocean. Joe Hall praises the book’s “jaw-dropping turns of thought…The poems defend against the brutal foreclosures of this historical moment”; Taylor Byas says “Pickell’s speaker collapses time as we know it.” 

David Schloss

David Schloss was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944, and educated at Columbia University, The University of Southern California Cinema School, Brooklyn College (BA), and The Iowa Writers Workshop (MFA). After teaching at Miami for decades, he retired in 2014 from Miami as Emeritus Professor of English. His new book,  Provocations —his sixth full-length poetry collection—is just out from Dos Madres Press. John Ashbery lauds him for “reinventing classical forms and meter to speak profound truths on vital issues of our day.” Lesley Hardy calls  Provocations  “a blistering “report” on disaster and war…a monumental and challenging work.” 

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Visiting Professors Emily Spencer and Jen Sammons , a Miami alumna, gave a wonderful reading to a packed room from poetry and non fiction, which reached many more via live streaming.

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Two writers read from their poetry, MU Press poet Kathleen Peirce and Miami University Creative Writing Professor, Brian Ascalon Roley.

Kathleen Peirce’s awards include The AWP Award, The Iowa Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award as well as Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Whiting Foundation. She teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University. She reads from Lion’s Paw (Miami University Press 2021). www.kathleenpeirce.com

Brian Ascalon Roley reads from his chapbook Ambuscade (2021), which won the Finishing Line Press Open Competition from 350 manuscripts. His distinctions include fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Djerassi Foundation, Cornell University and the University of Cambridge, among others. www.brianroley.com

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Meet Your Professors! — Interview Three, Margaret Luongo

To finish out this series, I interviewed Margaret Luongo, Director of Creative Writing, Associate Professor of English, and advisor for my apprenticeship with the CW program. Since my first (and regrettably, only) class with her, I have experienced just how wise and kind she is and I am very glad I got to work more closely with her as part of my apprenticeship, especially now that it is coming to close along with the rest of my college career. I’m very thankful that I have been able to work with Prof. Luongo over this past year, and I hope you all enjoy learning a bit more about her!

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Meet Your Professors! — Interview Two, Patrick Murphy

Last semester, back when things were strange in the way we call “normal,” I was thrilled to be in the course ENG 360B: Comics in Theory and In Practice, co-taught by professors Jody Bates and Patrick Murphy. I had tried making comics before but always stopped short of completing them, but this class gave me the tools I needed to return to this incredible form of art and creative writing. When I decided to start this series of professor spotlights, I knew I wanted to learn more about Dr. Murphy’s work in comics. And now, with this interview, you can learn more too! — Lauren Miles

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Selvage, Diaspora, and Lingual Processes: a Conversation with Hoa Nguyen

National poetry month 2020.

By: Savannah Trent

I sat down, well more accurately sat down and logged into google chat, to talk to poet Hoa Nguyen to ask her about identity, belonging, and the diasporic experience.  Nguyen, whose 2016 book length collection of poems V iolet Energy Ingots was shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin prize in poetry, is a poet whose work is known for its melodic quality, weaving rhyme, non sequiturs, syllabic play, and references to Sappho and Shakespeare among others. Born in the Mekong Delta, she was raised in the Washington DC area during the time of punk, post-punk and the Reagan presidency though she now resides in Toronto where she teaches creative writing and serves as a mentor to Miami University’s low residency program in creative writing. She is also the author of Dark (Skanky Possum 1998), Your ancient see through (AA Arts 2001) , Hecate Lochia (Hot Whiskey 2009), As long as trees last (Wave 2012) and Red Juice: Poems 1998-2008 (Wave 2014).

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Meet Your Professors! Interview One — cris cheek

At the start of this semester, I wanted to begin a series of interviews with professors; I believe our faculty are what make the entire Miami English department special and I hoped to use the platform to showcase that. Now that so much has changed as a result of the pandemic, I hope this series can also help future students get to know the creative writing program since they can’t come visit in person. To kick this series off and continue with our National Poetry Month theme, I I interviewed poetry professor cris cheek about his work:

“The Time to Play among the Borders of the Possible is a Gift:” An Interview with cris cheek

cris cheek is a documentary performance writer, sound composer, and photographer. They worked alongside Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths with the Consortium of London Presses in the mid 1970’s to run a thriving open access print shop for little press poets. In 1981 they co-founded a collective movement-based performance resource in the east end of London at Chisenhale Dance Space, working in collaboration with choreographers, musicians, and performance artists to make interdisciplinary events. cris taught Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts (1995-2002), played music with Sianed Jones and Philip Jeck as Slant , collaborated on works about value and recycling with Kristen Lavers in Things Not Worth Keeping and has been a professor at Miami University in Ohio since 2005. cris lives in Cincinnati. Most recent publications are the church and the school, the beer (Critical Documents, 2007), part:short life housing (The Gig, 2009), pickles & jams (BlazeVOX Books, 2017), and fukc all the king’s men: the tower and a few beasts living in its rubble (Xerolage, 2019). They podcast with Mark Hagood as Phantom Power: sounds about sound.

It would be, in every sense, a fool’s errand to try and pin down what particularly interested me so thoroughly in cris cheek’s work that I was compelled to reach out to them for an interview; not because it couldn’t be done, but because any attempt to delineate singular points of interest would inevitably only serve to push away others just as present as I read their work. To say, for example, that I was drawn immediately to the way in cheek’s pickles & jams that words, lines, even stanzas dance staggeringly across the page, often floating towards and juking away from stability, while certainly true, would ignore how equally pulled I felt toward the way cheek’s refusal of alphabetic context in fukc all the king’s men: the tower and a few beasts living in its rubble simultaneously implodes reading-as-such and constructs images so literal they refuse to not be read. Perhaps the most sensible argument I can make for the following interview is that cheek’s work is, at every point, a performance; therefore, like all great performances, cheek’s work inspired in me the festering curiosity that ignites every behind-the-scenes documentary. I needed to know the distance between the artist in the wings and art unfolding on stage. More importantly, I needed to know how, and by what crafty devices, the distance might be crossed so fluidly, so fully, and with such clarity of motion that I found myself unsure the distance actually existed.

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