Marly Swick - Creative Writing Program - Departments of English and Theatre

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Marly Swick

Professor
email: marlyswick@yahoo.com

Biography

Marly Swick (Ph.D., American University) is the author of two short story collections, Monogamy and The Summer Before the Summer of Love (HarperCollins), and two novels, Paper Wings (HarperCollins) and Evening News (Little, Brown, 1999). A recipient of a Gold Chalk Award for teaching excellence and grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the James Michener Foundation, and the Wisconsin Creative Writing Institute, her short fiction has appeared in such journals as The Atlantic Monthly, Redbook, The Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The North American Review, among other magazines. Her work has also been widely anthologized, appearing in such collections as The O'Henry Prize Stories, Best of the South, Contemporary West Coast Writers, The Iowa Award, and High Infidelity. She has also taught in the Writing Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Teaching

Fall 2010

English 4510/7510: Advanced Fiction Writing
Section 3

T 9:30-10:45
This course will consist of two components: the workshop and the discussion of assigned literature. Depending on the workshop size, everyone will workshop either one or two stories with a revision. The theme for the reading has to do with the spectrum of popular genre fiction to more literary fiction using such novels as In the Lake of the Woods (Tim O'brien), The Road (Cormac McCarthy), The Talented Mr. Ripley (Highsmith), Montana 1948 (Larry Watson), and several short stories. This list is subject to some fluctuation.

English 4159/7159: Passage to India: Modern and Contemporary Indian Fiction
Section 1

TR 12:30-1:45
In this course we will read and discuss a number of books beginning with A Passage to India by E.M. Forster and The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux ( a British and an American writer, respectively). Then we will read and discuss several works such as The God of Small Things, Other Wonders, Other Rooms, The Romantics, and The Death of Vishnu, among others by contemporary Indian writers. Finally, we will read The Namesake and/or a collection of stories by Jhumpa Lahiri who was born in the United States.

Books


Evening News	Paper Wings	The Summer Before the Summer of Love	Monogamy