R227. Visual Arts in Creative Writing, Literature, and Composition Classrooms

Room 510, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Thursday, March 31, 2016
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

Writers and teachers of poetry, fiction, plays, and screenplays discuss their use of visual arts in creative writing, literature, and composition classrooms. Moving beyond ekphrasis, these educators and writers describe assignments that promote parallel thinking, metacognition, and creative problem-solving via various mediums and games at the undergraduate and graduate levels.


Participants

Moderator:

Margaret Luongo teaches creative writing and contemporary literature for Miami University in Ohio and London. Her short fiction has appeared in Tin House, Granta, the  Cincinnati Review, Fence, the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and other publications.

Zackary D. Hill is an aspiring screenwriter, professional academic advisor, and part-time teacher. In the classroom, he's been known to use Play-doh and Apples-to-Apples as tools of (mass) educational construction. Thus far, he has achieved modest success in the screenwriting contest circuit.

David Ebenbach is the author of five books, including two story collections—Between Camelots (winner of the Drue Heinz Prize) and Into the Wilderness (winner of the WWPH Prize)—and The Artist’s Torah, a guide to the creative process. Ebenbach teaches creative writing at Georgetown University.

Joseph Bates is the author of Tomorrowland and The Nighttime Novelist. His short fiction has appeared in such journals as The Rumpus, New Ohio Review, Identity Theory, and InDigest Magazine. He teaches at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Brian Ascalon Roley is the author of American Son: A Novel, a New York Times Notable Book, LA Times Best Book, Pacific Rim Prize finalist, and recipient of the Association for Asian American Studies Prose Book Award, among other honors. The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal: Stories is forthcoming.

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