University of Illinois, Chicago
Illinois, United States
Residential programUIC offers a PhD in English with creative dissertation and also an MA in English with creative manuscript.
The Program for Writers at UIC is one of the oldest PhD-granting writing programs in the country. Program for Writers PhD alumni have been teaching at colleges and universities throughout the country, and their books regularly appear in book review pages and on college syllabi.
The small and selective PhD Program for Writers is designed to prepare students for blended careers in writing, critical scholarship and university teaching. UIC has placed emphasis on assembling a permanent writing faculty, stressing a long-term relationship between professor and student. Workshop courses are offered in short fiction, the novel, nonfiction and poetry. In addition to both traditional and alternative forms of fiction and creative nonfiction, the Program’s prose community has developed an interest in the blur between the genres, including other cross-pollinating genres such as flash-fiction, flash-nonfiction, flash-novella, prose poetry, novel in lyric poem. The poetry program places particular emphasis on the lyric poem, both in a 21st-century context and throughout literary history.
Financial assistance for UIC graduate students takes the form of teaching assistantships plus tuition and fee waivers. There are also numerous fellowships for individual application.
The 2-year Program for Writers MA is designed to provide intensive work in a particular genre plus an advanced overview of literary and cultural studies. A 3-year option can include secondary teaching certification. The MA is designed as a stepping-stone to PhD work but also prepares students for community college or high school teaching, careers in publishing or editing, and other professional areas. Students complete the MA with a partial MS, roughly 75-150 pages (for prose) somewhat shorter for poetry (40-50). MA and PhD students are in writing workshops together, so master’s students benefit from a combined years of experience and a wide range of aesthetics.
Contact Information
601 S. Morgan St.
MC 162, Dept of English
Chicago
Illinois, United States
60607
Phone: (312) 413-2795
Email: cmazza@uic.edu
http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/index.html
Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Criticism & Theory
Genres: Fiction, Criticism & Theory, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry
Unit of Measure: Hours
The 2-year Program for Writers MA is designed to provide intensive work in a particular genre plus an advanced overview of literary and cultural studies. A 3-year option can include secondary teaching certification. The MA is designed as a stepping-stone to PhD work but also prepares students for community college or high school teaching, careers in publishing or editing, and other professional areas. Students complete the MA with a partial MS, roughly 75-150 pages (for prose) somewhat shorter for poetry (40-50). Some students do complete a book-length manuscript. MA and PhD students are in writing workshops together, so master’s students benefit from a combined years of experience and a wide range of aesthetics.
Type of Program: Studio/ResearchLargest Class Size: 10
Smallest Class Size: 4
Genres: Fiction, Criticism & Theory, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry
Unit of Measure: Hours
Workshop: 12
Literature: 16
Total Units for Degree: 32
Application Requirements: Transcripts, Writing Sample, Application Form, Letters of Recommendation, Cover Letter
UIC's small and selective PhD program is designed to prepare students for blended careers in writing, critical scholarship and university teaching. Because it is a commuter campus, UIC has placed emphasis on assembling a permanent writing faculty, stressing a long-term relationship between professor and student. The program offers a lively combination of individual supervision and group workshopping opportunities for students to develop literary writing to a professional standard and to produce significant critical scholarship. Workshop courses are offered in fiction (both short story and novel writing), poetry, and nonfiction writing. Financial assistance for UIC graduate students takes the form of tuition and fee waivers, teaching assistantships, and, the availability of university fellowships. The Program for Writers at UIC is one of the oldest PhD-granting writing programs in the country. UIC's PhD graduates with creative dissertations in poetry and fiction have been teaching at colleges and universities throughout the country, and their books regularly appear in book review pages and on college syllabi.
Type of Program: Studio/ResearchLargest Class Size: 10
Smallest Class Size: 4
Genres: Fiction, Criticism & Theory, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry
Unit of Measure: Hours
Workshop: 12
Literature: 16
Total Units for Degree: 32
Application Requirements: Transcripts, Writing Sample, Application Form, Letters of Recommendation, Cover Letter
Cris Mazza
Charlatan: Selected Stories. Something Wrong With Her, Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?, Disability, Indigenous: Growing Up Californian, Waterbaby, Trickle-Down Timeline, Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, others
Christopher Grimes
Public Works, The Pornographors
http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/people/prof/cgrimes/bio.htm
Christina Pugh
Perception , Grains of the Voice, Rotary, Restoration
http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/people/prof/cpugh/bio.html
Luis Urrea
the Devil's Highway, Hummingbird's Daughter, Nobody's Son, others
http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/people/prof/lurrea/bio.html
Daniel Borzutzky
Lake Michigan, 2018. The Performance of Becoming Human Brooklyn, 2016. In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy, 2015. The Book of Interfering Bodies, 2011.The Ecstasy of Capitulation Buffalo, 2007.
