*2026 Summer - Who Can Recall? Writing (and Drawing) Time
CLASS NUMBER:
770-03
INSTRUCTOR:
TIME:
Mondays, 4:00-6:30 PM
LOCATION:
This hybrid course will be held in person at GLS House and online via Zoom.
DESCRIPTION:
In this seminar, we will read words and images recalling time, told in different forms. For publishing purposes, an item needs a “genre.” The items for this class may be convened under the genre “memoir,” in the form of essays, poems, drawings, and more conventional storytelling. Readings will include: Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream (1949); James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son (1955); Larry McMurtry’s In a Narrow Grave (1968); Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals (1980); Patricia Polacco’s My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (1994); Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant (2014); Miranda Richmond Mouillot’s A Fifty-Year Silence (2015) and Jerry Stiller’s Married to Laughter (2000). Audio and free online versions are available for some of these texts, and I will try to minimize the cost of book purchases. Assignments will be weekly (2-3 pp. double-spacing, 10-11 point font) close readings from the assigned text. Papers due at time of class. Participation is 40% of your grade; papers, 60%. Listening attentively to your neighbor is as important as speech for your participation grade.
Summer 2026, Arts, Education, Literature