CLA Announces Fall 2024 Cohort of Creative Practice Workshop Fellows |
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The Center for the Literary Arts has announced the Fall 2024 cohort for its Creative Practice Workshop.
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- G’Ra Asim, assistant professor of English
- Nancy E. Berg, professor of Hebrew language and literature
- Todd Decker, Paul Tietjens Professor of Music
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Julia Walker, chair of the Performing Arts Department, professor of English and performing arts
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These four Arts & Sciences faculty members will join the workshop to produce and share work in a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary workspace.
“We are excited to watch as our newest group of Creative Practice Workshop fellows develop their projects and utilize one another’s expertise,” said Danielle Dutton, co-director of the Center for the Literary Arts. “This is fertile ground for big ideas to flourish.”
The four participants will begin their residencies in the Fall 2024 semester.
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Save the Date: CLA Speaker Series – Megan Kamalei Kakimoto and Callie Garnett |
From March 21-22, the CLA will host author Megan Kamalei Kakimoto and Editorial Director at Bloomsbury Publishing, Callie Garnett.
That Thursday, Kakimoto will give a reading followed by a conversation with Garnett about the process of editing her debut short story collection, Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare (Bloomsbury 2023).
On Friday, the pair will talk about writing, publishing, and editing at a meet-and-greet breakfast with graduate students. More details to come!
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CLA Co-directors Featured on The American Vandal Podcast |
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Center for the Literary Arts co-directors Danielle Dutton and Ignacio Infante appeared on the November 20 episode of The American Vandal podcast to discuss the mission and work of CLA.
Produced by the Center for Mark Twain Studies and hosted by Washington University alum Matt Seybold, The American Vandal featured Dutton and Infante as part of its "Criticism LTD" series examining the state of literary criticism and literary studies, which features interviews with more than two dozen scholars, working critics, and other influential creators.
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MacArthur “Genius” Grant–winning pianist Jeremy Denk will discuss his New York Times best-selling book
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons, a beautifully written, witty memoir and an immersive exploration of classical music.
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| Please join us for a reading and reception with filmmaker and co-founder of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Curtis Chin. His memoir,
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant, about coming of age and coming out while finding his voice as a writer and activist.
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Experience an evening of poetry in translation with poet, translator, and scholar
Mona Kareem. She will be joined in conversation by Safa Khatib, Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature.
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| Join us for an evening of prose in translation with genre-defying author
Verónica Gerber Bicecci. Bicecci will be joined in conversation by Paco Tijerina, Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Studies.
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The CLA will host two workshops for students interested in applying for a Fulbright Creative and Performing Arts Grant during the 2024-2025 application cycle. These workshops will assist students in writing and honing their statement of grant purpose.
The first will take place at noon on
Friday, March 1 and focus on generating the statement of purpose. The second will take place at noon on Friday, April 5, and give students the opportunity to receive feedback on first drafts of their statements.
RSVP here! Questions? reach out to Ashley Colley (acolley@wustl.edu).
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Teaching Innovation Awards for Teaching and Practice Track Faculty |
The annual Teaching Innovation Awards provide full-time teaching-track and practice-track faculty with up to $5,000 in funding to advance their pedagogical work. Each year’s awardees will form a cohort that meets over the course of the year to share what they are learning. One of these teaching innovation grants is funded by the CLA and focuses on creative practice and pedagogy.
Proposals are due Feb. 15. Learn more about the program and the required application materials here.
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After postponing due to construction, we are excited to relaunch the Literary Arts Co-working Sessions!
Starting
February 16, the CLA will host co-working sessions at the DUC every other Friday from 1 – 3 p.m.
These sessions are for graduate students working on literary arts projects of any kind—translation, creative writing, interarts work, etc. Bring work to share or plan to write in community for the duration. Coffee, tea, and donuts will be provided. RSVP for our February 16 session here.
For questions, please reach out to Ashley Colley (acolley@wustl.edu) or Laurel Taylor (laurel.taylor@wustl.edu).
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The CLA wants to celebrate WashU faculty’s creative work! If you have recent creative publications, exhibitions, or performances to share, please reach out to Ashley Colley (acolley@wustl.edu) for a chance to be featured in the CLA newsletter's Faculty Spotlight.
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The CLA and the English MFA program are excited to co-sponsor the 2024 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Kansas City.
To represent the interdisciplinary nature of the literary arts community at WashU, the CLA and MFA Program will share a table at the AWP Bookfair--come say hello!
To celebrate our co-sponsorship representing Washington University and Arts & Sciences at AWP, we are also holding an off-site event to highlight the work of students in the MFA program and the Comparative Literature International Writers Track Ph.D. program. This AWP off-site event will take place on Thursday, February 8 from 6-9 p.m. at Mildred's (1901 Wyandotte, Kansas City, MO 64108).
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Thank you to all who attended our Fall 2023 Creative Practice Workshop celebration, featuring the work of inaugural workshop participants Flora Cassen and Ji-Eun Lee. We greatly enjoyed welcoming attendees into our collaborative workspace in Jolley Hall, and hope to see more of you there in the near future.
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Center for the Literary Arts postdoctoral fellow Ashley Colley presents to the group, photo by Sean Garcia
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