A Way with Words : Writing across Forms
Faculty
Sumana Roy
Course Dates
1st to 7th June
Timings
Commitment
6 Hours/Week
Price
INR 12,000
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About The Course
… poems, stories, essays, and other genres. This course will discuss these genres with examples and help students to explore their talent and improve their writing skill. Format: An hour spent on discussing a genre will be followed by a workshop on writing submitted by the participants. Ten hours will therefore allow students to be introduced to five genres and practise writing in them.
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Faculty
Sumana Roy
Ph.D. University of North Bengal
Sumana Roy is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Ashoka University. Prior to this, she taught English Literature in government colleges in Bengal. She was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society in Munich (2018), and a Full Time Visiting Fellow at the South Asia Program, Cornell University (Fall 2018).
Professor Roy’s research interests include literature on the non-human, provincial Literatures, and cultures of close reading. As a practitioner, Professor Roy is invested in what she calls the ‘minor’ forms. Her poems and essays have appeared in Granta, Guernica, Los Angeles Review of Books, The White Review, Caravan, Himal Southasian, Drunken Boat, the Prairie Schooner, Berfrois, The Common, Journal of South Asian Studies, Journal of Life Writing, and American Book Review.
Horizons Course Objectives
Discover Your Interest and Aptitude
Go Deep Into Specific Disciplines
Learn with Amazing Peers from Schools across India
Explore Unique Perspectives and Ideas
Develop New Skills and Abilities
Learning Support for the Course
Swati Singh
Teaching Assistant
Swati Singh – Teaching Assistant
Swati is a graduating Literature major with a minor in Creative Writing from Ashoka University. They have been a teaching assistant in the departments of Media Studies, English and Creative Writing. As an undergraduate student, they were a part of several literary societies and student publications of Ashoka, and have presented their writing at the Tata Literature! Live and Lucknow Literature festivals. At present, they are working on their thesis in graphic narratives and spending time with their many animals.
