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Binghamton University,
State University of New York
Ph. D in Literature
Field areas: Contemporary ethnic & immigrant writers; World Literatures;
Romanticism & Realism in 19th Century Russian & French Fiction;
Romanticism in African American, Latin American & Caribbean Fiction;
The African Novel;
Orality in Literature
Syracuse University
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Cornelia Carhart Ward Writing Fellow
Thesis Director: George Saunders
ENGLISH 3402:
Shorts: Storytelling in Film, Art and Design
reading and writing fiction for creative adaptions
to digital and other media
ENGLISH 3403:
Ralph Ellison in American Literature
placing Ellison within context of his stylistic predecessors and successors
ENGLISH 3402:
Life Stories: Reading & Writing
Biography & Memoir
writing creative nonfiction through select,
stylistically diverse texts
AND Intro to literature; & First-Year Writing
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