Picador Professor Daniel Gumbiner will teach two classes during his tenure in the winter term 2024/25.
Creative Writing Workshop
Wednesday, 1-3/5 pm, NSG 224
This is a course for students looking to develop their own creative writing. The class will focus on short fiction and use a workshop model, in which students will read and discuss each other’s work. Students will also read and discuss a selection of contemporary American short stories. Our goals will be to produce work that is meaningful to us, and to better understand how to talk about the work we have produced. A spirit of generosity and inquisitiveness about ourselves and our peers will be expected.
You can enroll in this course by registering for the 5-LP BA professional skills module "Creative Writing: Imagining America" (04-001-1019). The class is open to students of Philologische Fakultät as an external SQ module as well as students enrolled at DLL.
Please be aware that this class will end the final week before the winter break and therefore taught in double sessions. Enrollment in this class is based on a lottery system.
Living Writers of California
Thursday, 1-3/5 pm, NSG 410
California is a diverse and complex state, home to many distinct thriving artistic communities. In this course, we will explore the work of some of its greatest living contemporary writers. How do these different writers explore place and identity in their work? What is at the core of their respective artistic projects? And how has the history of the state influenced and shaped their writing? Students will be expected to read several novels, as well as a selection of short stories, from writers such as Manuel Muñoz, Ishmael Reed, Tommy Orange, Claire Vaye Watkins, Ella Leffland, Michael Ondaatje, and Julie Otsuka, among others.
This class is part of the module Myths, Narratives, Memory (04-038-2009) of the American studies M.A. program. Please be aware that this class will end the final week before the winter break and therefore taught in double sessions.