S284. Creative Writing in the Digital Age

Room M100 J, Mezzanine Level
Saturday, April 11, 2015
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

 

Digital technology has a profound and ever-increasing impact on creative writing; however, this impact is often overlooked in the traditional creative writing classroom. This panel addresses creative solutions to utilizing technology in traditional and hybrid genres, from digital poetics to social media to game theory. The panelists discuss traditional, hybrid, and online-only classrooms, and how instructors can integrate digital tools to enhance creativity both in process and product.


Participants

Moderator:

Joseph Rein is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He is co-editor of Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in over a dozen journals and anthologies.

Doug Dechow is the digital humanities librarian and an adjunct professor of English at Chapman University. He is co-author of a book about the Smalltalk programming language entitled Squeak: A Quick Trip to ObjectLand, and he and Chapman professor Anna Leahy also co-write Lofty Ambitions blog.

Janelle Adsit is the author of the poetry collection Unremitting Entrance. Her poetry, book reviews, and essays have appeared in Confrontation, Caketrain, Mid-American Review, Colorado Review, and ForeWord. She teaches writing at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Trent Hergenrader is an assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His short stories have appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and Best Horror of the Year. His academic work focuses on digital pedagogy, creative writing pedagogy, and game studies.

Michael Dean Clark is an associate professor of writing at Azusa Pacific University and the co-editor of the text Creative Writing in the Digital Age. An author of fiction and nonfiction, his work has appeared in a variety of places including Relief, Fast Forward, and Paper Tape.

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