Department of English

This is the 26th annual Kelly Writers House Fellows Seminar, which features visits by eminent writers as “Fellows” of the Kelly Writers House, the student-conceived writing arts collaborative at 3805 Locust Walk. The seminar will be co-taught by Professor Al Filreis, Kelly Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, and by Simone White, Stephen M. Gorn Family Assistant Professor of English and Associate Faculty Director of KWH. This course will include extended visits to the class, and public presentations, by poet Elizabeth Willis, long-form nonfiction writer David Grann, and novelist Ayana Mathis. Throughout the semester we will study and comprehensively discuss the work of these three writers — their relationship to each other and to the contemporary world. Requirements include weekly reading assignments, frequent “position” papers, projects which follow-up on each of our Fellow’s visits, and an individualized essay final examination. The course will be held Mondays, 1:45-4:45 pm, in the Arts Cafe of the Kelly Writers House.