Feminist Life Writing

This workshop rehearses the critical and compositional skills necessary for developing an accurate, contextualized, and compelling account of a woman's life. Course participants will engage a variety of critical and creative modes to research and compose original works of creative biographical non-fiction about a biographical subject of their choice. Throughout, the course will engage foundational methods and techniques of biographical storytelling as they also evince (and confront) the personal, moral, ethical and other questions emerging from the stories we choose to tell about women's lives.