Previous Courses offered for Creative Writing Specialization in English
Maestra Cherríe Moraga Spring 2024 Graduate Creative Writing Seminar — “The Body Other/The Othered Body.”
An advanced graduate-level Creative/Critical Writing Workshop designed for those "other" creative writers and thinkers who want the (w)rite/right to employ language in original, innovative, introspective and embodied ways so as to respond to (and/or from) non-dominant locations of identity.
“OF LIKE MIND” - A Graduate Student and Graduating Seniors Creative Writing Workshop - Spring Quarter 2022
Facilitated by Profesora Cherríe Moraga
With students from Chicanx Studies, Feminist Studies and the Department of English.
The Craft of Poetry: Asian American Experimental Poetry - Winter 2022
Taught by Professor Swati Rana.
THE LATINX PUBLC VOICE — A Graduate Seminar — Spring 2021
“In the Good Company” of students from the Departments of English, Chicana/o Studies & other UCSB grad programs. Through engagement with selected critical and literary texts by Latinx, Native and feminists of color writers, the course intends to make visible this invisible population changing the face and mind of the United States of North America. The course also serves to support students to develop a “public voice” in their own writings.
“Chronicles of Desire” – Creative and Critical Nonfiction - Writing Spring 2020
In Spring 2020, Maestra Moraga’s class, “Chronicles of Desire – Creative and Critical Nonfiction Writing” went online. A class of 25 students, we met virtually for a full eleven weeks. In the final weeks of the quarter, students also worked virtually in small groups to create a series of Final Public Chronicles in response to COVID-19 — its death toll; its impact on frontline workers; its deeply personal meanings from multiple cultural perspectives. We offer you this video as one example of our collective voice; created by the following writers, in order of presentation: Vicky López; Raveen Sivashanker; Olivia Berriz; Preetha Swaminathan; and, Lane Murphy.
Writing for Performance - Winter ‘19-‘20
Writing for Performance classes are taught regularly in the Department of English by Professors Stephanie Batiste (Winter 2020) and Cherríe Moraga. Performance Night. December 10, 2019.
Writing for Performance Course - Fall 2019
Student Playwrights, Screenplay Writers and Performance Writers. Fall 2019, Taught by Maestra Moraga.
Flor y Canto: In Xochitl, In Cuicatl - Fall 2018
Poetry courses are offered consistently by people of color faculty in the department, as part of the Creative Writing specialization and a developing Race and Ethnicity specialization.