WRITTEN ARTS PROGRAM

Division of Languages and Literature

Website: http://writtenarts.bard.edu

Updated December 4, 2020

Advising Faculty

1. Dinaw Mengestu (director)

2. Susan Fox Rogers (assistant director)

3. Mary Caponegro

4. Benjamin Hale

5. Michael Ives

6. Masha Gessen

7. Robert Kelly

8. Ann Lauterbach

9. Valeria Luiselli

10. Wyatt Mason

11. Daniel Mendelsohn

12. Chiori Miyagawa

13. Bradford Morrow

14. Jenny Offill

15. Joseph O'Neill

16. Philip Pardi

17. Francine Prose

18. Luc Sante

19. Mona Simpson

20. Jenny Xie

Non-advising Faculty:

1. Ian Buruma

2. Neil Gaiman

Program Requirements

Moderation Requirements:

1. Successful completion of one workshop in the Written Arts Program

2. LIT 201 Narrative / Poetics / Representation

3. one LIT Sequence Course (U.S. Literature I, II, or III; Comparative Literature A I, II, or III; or English Literature I, II, or III)

4. any additional course from the Division of Languages and Literature

5. any additional course from the Division of Languages and Literature

Graduation Requirements:

6. Senior Project I

7. Senior Project II

Students are expected to develop a plan of study with their adviser and continue their study of literature every semester. Emphasis should be on courses in comparative literature, translation, literary history, historical studies, philosophy and linguistics, as well as in the other arts.

Sample Program of Study

First Year

Sophomore Year

Junior Year

Senior Year

• LIT 201

• WRIT writing workshop

• FYSEM I (fall)

• FYSEM II (spring)

• LIT 257 (US Lit sequence)

• L&L elective

Moderation (spring)

• WRIT writing workshop

• L&L elective

• Sr. Project I (fall)

• Sr. Project II (spring)

• WRIT Senior Colloquium

• L&L elective