Core Creative Writing Faculty
Juliane Okot Bitek
- African literature; Black Studies
- Creative Writing (especially poetry)
- Black theory
- Black Diasporic literature
- oral traditions
- war and trauma literature
- history and cultural memory
- Black and Indigenous cultural relations
Armand Garnet Ruffo
- Indigenous cultures and literatures,
- Indigenous literary nationalism,
- transnationalism
- carceral writing,
- representation,
- genre studies,
- creative writing
Affiliate Creative Writing Faculty
Helen Humphreys
- poetry,
- creative non-fiction,
- novels
Laura Murray
I have been happy to teach CWRI 271, "Writing the City," for the past three years. In this course students read published work in many genres and voices about cities past and present, near and far. They respond to these in dialogue with their own experience and imagination to reflect on the relationships between strangers and neighbours and friends, between languages and cultures and religions, between generations, between past and future, and between privilege and marginalization, between joy and despair, that characterize urban life.
Emily Vanderploeg
- Poetry
- Fiction
- Reviews
