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Maureen Stanton
Assistant Professor
316J Tate Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1500
phone: 573-882-2023
email: StantonM@missouri.edu
Biography
Maureen Stanton (M.F.A., Ohio State University), Assistant Professor, teaches creative nonfiction writing. Her essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Iowa Review, American Literary Review, The Sun, and Riverteeth, among other journals, as well as several anthologies including Best of The Sun, Best of Brevity, and Best Texas Writing. Three of her essays were listed as "Notable Essays" in Best American Essays (Houghton Mifflin 1998, 2004, 2005). Her work has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award in Creative Nonfiction, The Penelope Niven Award in Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review Award in Creative Nonfiction, The Goldfarb Family Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction, and a Santa Fe Writer’s Project Award. She has twice received an Individual Artist grant from the Maine Arts Commission, a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and grants from the Vogelstein Fund and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She has been Writer-in-Residence at St. Mary’s College in Maryland, and a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the MacDowell Colony.
Teaching
Fall 2009
English 4100: History of Literary Journalism
Section 1
MWF 10:00-10:50
This is an advanced topic survey course that looks at the development of Literary Journalism, a largely American innovation in literature that developed in the late 19th through the 20th centuries. Students will closely read and discuss books and articles by historical and contemporary practitioners of literary journalism (including, for example, Mark Twain, Nellie Bly, Jack London, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Lillian Ross, James Agee, Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, John McPhee, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Ted Conover, Barbara Ehrenreich, and others.) The goal is to understand the genesis and shifts of this somewhat hybridized form ("novelistic," "narrative" or "literary" techniques applied to true or fact-based stories), and the contributions that literary journalism has made and is making to literature, to documentary and witness narratives, to historical records, and to the notions of truth and reportage.
English 8520: Advanced Writing of Nonfiction Prose
Section 1
W 6:00-8:30
This is a graduate-level creative writing workshop in creative nonfiction. While this course is intended for advanced writers, students working at an advanced level in other other genres (poetry, fiction, theatre, journalism) are welcome. Students will read and discuss samples of the form by established writers. Students will be expected to produce two (or three, depending on enrollment) complete essays for workshop response (if three, one may be a revision toward a publishable piece). Students are expected to write constructive and considered critiques of peer work, and actively participate in assigned reading and workshop discussions. The goals are to study and practice varieties of creative nonfiction forms, with an understanding of the traditions of and innovations to these forms, and to hone creative writing skills in this genre. |
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