An American Walks into a Bar (with her British Creative Writing Students)

Knight, Lania ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1024-8889 (2021) An American Walks into a Bar (with her British Creative Writing Students). In: The Place and the Writer: International Intersections of Teacher Lore and Creative Writing Pedagogy. Research in creative writing . Bloomsbury Academic, London. ISBN 9781350127159

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Abstract

The author examines pedagogical choices in teaching creative writing after a move from the US to the UK in 2015. Inherited lore including Iowa Writers Workshop style critique and a preference for complex characters are discussed through the lens of drinking culture, engaged pedagogy, privilege, and US/UK politics in 2015. The essay concludes that engaged pedagogy and efforts at originality after the move across the Atlantic helped translate into a teaching experience that was beneficial for the UK Creative Writing students.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education P Language and Literature > PR English literature P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR750 Prose P Language and Literature > PS American literature
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Arts, Culture and Environment
Research Priority Areas:	Creative Practice and Theory
Depositing User:	Lania Knight
Date Deposited:	03 Mar 2020 10:23
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2025 10:00
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/8173

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