Interdisciplinary Arts 0302 - Feminist Writing Experiment

This seminar course will take as its starting point the idea that women's lives are complex, valuable, and interesting, and that creative writers can benefit from closely and courageously imagining, exploring, and textualizing them. Our readings will focus on women writers whose work is considered 'difficult' - strange, complicated and provocative; and we will use these writings as a springboard for our own weekly written work. Among the authors to be considered are: Helene Cixous, Clarice Lispector, Toni Morrisson, Janet Frame, Angela Carter, Shirley Jackson, May Sarton, Joyce Carol Oates, Rabih Alamedine, Ramona Ausubel, and others.

Independent Work In this course, students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time.