Melora Wolff
Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Theater Arts

B.A., Brown University
M.F.A.,  Columbia University

Office: Palamountain 323
Phone:(518) 580-5197
Email: mwolff@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Creative Writing: Nonfiction, Fiction
• Expository Writing
• Literature: Fiction, Poetry, Essay
• Writing About Theater and Drama

Courses Taught:

• EN 105: The Body and Story
• EN 105: Transformations
• EN 105: The Fantastic Imagination
• EN 105H: Childhood Dramas
• EN 205: Personal Experience and the Critical Voice
• EN 205: Nonfiction Workshop: The Poetry of Prose
• EN 213: Poetry
• EN 211: Fiction
• TA 251: Writing About Drama
• EN 228: Informal Forms: The Personal Essay
• EN 229: Words and Images
  
• EN 280: Introduction to Nonfiction: Personal Voice
• EN 280: Introduction to Nonfiction: Lyric Essays
• EN 281: Introduction to Fiction Writing
• EN 364: Personal Essay Writing: Objects of Desire
• EN 364: Reading   and Writing Memoir
• EN 378: Nonfiction: Lyric Essays
• EN 379: Nonfiction: Landscape and Memory
  
• EN 380: Fiction Workshop
• EN 381: Advanced Projects in Nonfiction
• Honors Forum: Visual Autobiography
  

Selected Publications: Essays and prose poems published in

Best American Fantasy, Brick, Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fugue, Green Mountains Review, Rivendell, Salmagundi, The Chronicle Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New York Times, The Normal School, The Southern Review, Weber, West Branch

Selected Honors:

Notable Essay of the Year, Best American Essays 2012

Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing, Bucknell University

Artists' Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, New York Foundation for the Arts

The Iowa Award in Nonfiction, Finalist, 2008