RISE AT OBERLIN RESEARCH. INTERNSHIPS. STUDY AWAY. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING. WAYS CREATIVE WRITING MAJORS RISE RESEARCH: Black Ekphrasis Anthology: African-American Poems on the Visual Arts • The OuLiPo: Research on the Movement, and Development of Constraint-Based Assignments • Contextualizing Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories within a Black (Queer) Literary and Cultural Tradition • Poetry by Langston: Lessons Taught and Learned through Writers-in-the-Schools (WITS) • The Vagrant: Where the Soviet Love of Bollywood Began • Imagine Trees Like These: A Virtual Reality Narrative concerning Forests, Futurity, and Ephemerality INTERNSHIPS: The PEN/Faulkner Foundation, Washington, DC: literary events intern • Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA: development intern • Pronto Comics, New York City: editing scripts and blog posts • Maya Universe Academy, Udhin Dhunga, Nepal: providing quality education to children in Nepal • The Moth, New York City: assist with production and post-production • Elizabeth Kaplan Literary Agency: manuscript reader • International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY: communications & development intern • Tin House Books, Portland, OR: marketing & publicity intern • Queer Eye, Los Angeles, CA; production intern STUDY AWAY: Prague Film School, Czech Republic • International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender, Netherlands • Danenberg Oberlin-in-London Program, England • Tel Aviv University School for Overseas Students, Israel • Associated Kyoto Program Doshisha University, JapanNational University of Ireland, Galway • School for International Training (SIT), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING: • WITS Writing in the Schools, partnership with Langston Middle School in Oberlin FIRST DESTINATIONS OF RECENT CREATIVE WRITING MAJORS: • Positions: editorial assistant, ABRAMS Books; literary assistant, The Clegg Literary Agency; Fulbright Fellows in Taiwan and Malaysia; Shansi Fellows to teach English in China and Indonesia; marketing associate, eSpark Learning, Ill.; tutor & teaching assistant, AmeriCorps.; teacher, Teach for America, Los Angeles; paralegal, Law Offices of Virginia Prihoda, Ill.; arts educator, 826 Valencia, San Francisco; high school English teacher, South Korea; editing specialist, Apolish, Washington D.C.; post-production assistant, Ice Lens Pictures, Ohio; research analyst for Carnegie India; Pardes Institute Scholar, Israel; writer’s room director, 826 Boston; assistant engineer, Nightsound Studios, N.C. • Graduate Schools: MA in poetry, Queen’s University, Ireland; MA in writing, Johns Hopkins University; Master of Library and Information Sciences, University of Wisconsin; Master’s of Divinity, University of Chicago; MFA, Writer’s Workshop, University of Iowa; MFA, University of Alabama; MFA, George Mason University; MFA, Brown University; MFA, Columbia University; MA in education, Boston University; Master’s in Education, Teachers College of Columbia University; MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School; MD, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine; JD, University of California, Davis, Law School; JD, University of Chicago Law School; JD, Columbia Law School Creative Writing Program, DeSales Harrison, chair Yellow House, 153 W. Lorain St., Oberlin, OH 44074 W: www.oberlin.edu/creative-writing E: [email protected] P: 440-775-6567.