This is a course about the short story as a literary form with a focus on short stories from around the world. We will acquire a technical vocabulary for discussing how short stories are made and how they can be interpreted. ...

In this course we will study examples of women writing about their lives and practice writing our own autobiographical narratives. The goal of the course is two-fold: first, we will examine the characteristics of the memoir ...

The Neapolitan quartet, Elena Ferrante’s series of novels about a friendship between two women who meet as children in Naples, has received extraordinary praise from readers and critics worldwide since its publication ...