

Currently CWP students are electing to take comprehensive exams in fields such as “A Global History of the Novel, ” "The Dialogic Lyric," "Ecopoetics," “The Southern Novel,” “Latino/a Literature,” “African American Literature,” “Translation Theory,” and "Twenty-first Century American Poetry.” Most students take their exams in the spring of their third year.ĭuring their fourth and fifth years CWP students complete a creative dissertation with a critical introduction. Students create a “Forms and Crafts” list in their selected genre plus lists in two other fields of their choice. Prior to beginning their third year CWP students prepare reading lists for comprehensive exams in three fields. Each student takes at least one Creative Writing course a year.

Though CWP students may choose to study earlier periods of literature, as scholars of the practice most students typically choose seminars in Twentieth-Century American, British Literature, Multicultural Literature, African American Literature, Native Literary Studies, and Critical Theory.

candidates select from course offerings in the English Department, seminars that signal both our faculty’s recognition of intellectual and disciplinary change and our abiding commitment to traditional literary history. Our faculty and students play an active role in the cultural life of Athens, both as artists and organizers.ĭuring the first two years of study our Ph.D. Our program fosters serious conversations among our students about aesthetics and criticism, experience and culture, and politics and history-not only in the classroom but through public readings and lectures. Our students are encouraged to develop a course of research that complements their writing practice and prepares them professionally for a teaching career at the university or college level.

That's where it began and it did not stop there my mouth would not tire and it let loose every break it could have known so that at 3 a.m.The Creative Writing Program at the University of Georgia directs and supports the emergence of the artistic voice in print by offering a Ph.D. I had found the book among the remainders the pages almost empty with words and when I was quiet they heard me and found the little soul inside me large enough to open themselves there into an elsewhere where I resided and often invited you too and one night a single word opened to me to repeat itself as if I were its instrument I was helpless in its cycle it began not unlike a school lesson simple sentences
