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Commencement speaker Harley Jessup (BFA ’76) and screenwriter Mike Rich (‘81) will discuss their work in a program centered on clips from their most iconic films. Moderated by Peter Betjemann, Director of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film.
A collaboration between the Art, English, Botany Plant Pathology, Integrative Biology, & Fisheries and Wildlife Departments at OSU
Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa, the esteemed husband-and-wife writer/producer team, have acquired the film and television rights to SWLF Instructor John Larison’s novel Whiskey When We’re Dry.
SWLF faculty received multiple awards last night at the 2018 Oregon Book Award Cermony.
The walls of Moreland have transformed into an art gallery for student projects!
How a career-focused class helped Jahan Kahusi pick an English major.
OSU alum Brandon Brown, PhD in Condensed Matter Physics, speaks to the value of creative writing.
Close analysis, deep research, outstanding writing ability, strong and nuanced communication, and the ability to understand complex social formations with sensitivity and empathy. Click to learn more!
Our School is the product of a forward-looking vision and mission. In scholarship/creativity, teaching and learning, outreach and public engagement, we recognize the importance of deep reading, textual analysis, creative expression, applied and persuasive writing, and research skills. We prepare students in textual disciplines for challenging careers and professions in a globally interconnected, information-rich, and humanly complex world.
On the OSU Corvallis campus, we offer a major and minor in English, a minor in writing, a minor in film, the MA in English (with concentrations in literature and culture, rhetoric, writing, and culture, or fim and visual studies) and a high-residency, yearlong, fully funded MFA in Creative Writing (fiction, poetry, non-fiction) A low-residency MFA Program in creative writing is offered through the OSU Cascades Campus in Bend.
The School of Writing, Literature, and Film affirms its commitment to supporting all students, including those who may face discrimination based on race, nationality, gender, sexuality, ability, religion, class, and immigration status. As scholars, writers, and filmmakers, we recognize the power of words and images to shape as well as challenge discourses that dehumanize minoritized populations. In the light of recent efforts to end DACA and to block immigration from Muslim-majority countries, as well as the resurgence of white supremacist movements in our community and around the US, the critical interrogation of such rhetoric and the material oppressions it produces matters more than ever. We remain committed to creating and maintaining inclusive and diverse spaces in which students can learn.
