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The discipline of English is changing in creative directions while new pedagogies are emerging in the undergraduate classroom. Our graduate students increasingly hold MFAs and have creative writing backgrounds, our recent or current creative writing fellows and lecturers are increasingly interested in critical analysis, and many of our undergraduate majors are as eager to write creatively as they are to read critically. English faculty more frequently require creative assignments in their classes, while new courses have appeared recently that teach aesthetic and interpretive inquiry as well as creative expression. The English Department’s new Critical-Creative Studies Initiative, directed by Professor Peggy Phelan, aims to build more bridges between scholarship and practice by designing courses that further fuse literary criticism and creative writing. But what is Critical-Creative Pedagogy?
This roundtable will gather graduate students and Stegner fellows/alums to launch an ongoing discussion of the practices and the potential of critical-creative pedagogies. Participants include Hassaan Mirza, Rabia Saeed, Navy Encinias, Emily Geminder, Lydia Burleson, and Caroline Bailey.