Chapters in this edited book fill a timely need in the area of creative writing across the curriculum (CWAC). Creative writing classes and majors remain among the most popular English department offerings in US higher education. At the same time, humanities-related fields find themselves increasingly needing to justify their contributions to students' educational journeys. Advancing Creative Writing Across the Curriculum features cutting-edge, never-before-published scholarship from established researchers on the issue. Contributors in this edited book come from a range of relevant disciplines: applied linguistics, creative writing studies, rhetoric and composition, and writing studies generally. Teachers of creative writing generally and humanities programs specifically will find these chapters useful for supporting human-based creation, communication and connection across the curriculum. Creative Writing Studies, No. 2 Selected by Khem K. Aryal
Justin Nicholes is an associate professor of rhetoric and composition at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where he teaches creative, scientific, and first-year writing. Chair of Research at the Creative Writing Studies Organization, he is the author of Creative Writing Across the Curriculum (2022) and Navigating Voices of Higher Education: A Poetic Ethnography of a University (2025).
"In the 20th century, there was an ongoing and spirited debate about whether or not creative writing belonged anywhere in college and university curricula. This book offers one of the most powerful articulations yet of an emerging 21st-century argument: Creative writing belongs virtually everywhere in college and university curricula." -Tim Mayers, Associate Professor of Writing Studies, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, author of (Re)Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English "As a creative writer in academia, I've spent many years sneaking creative writing assignments into almost every course. I've noticed that they improve engagement and students' ability to synthesize information, but my observations have been anecdotal. At last, in Advancing Creative Writing Across the Curriculum, Justin Nicholes has curated a series of articles offering vital evidence of the efficacy of such practices. I will be turning to this book often!" -Jennifer Pullen, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, Ohio Northern University, author of Fantasy Fiction: A Writer's Guide and Anthology "The limits of my language are the limits of my world, says Wittgenstein. Proponents of creative writing across the curriculum wholeheartedly agree, and so aim to increase the reach of student writers by instructing them with regard to the greatly challenging, deeply satisfying, and always vivifying practices of creative writing. Advancing Creative Writing Across the Curriculum catalyzes efforts to involve ever more learners with creative writing for a host of purposes-in composition courses, through STEM, and via second language instruction-and by a variety of means: from lessons that generate new writing to reflective exercises using autobiography and autoethnography, and even including the creation of certificate programs. It is an instructive and inspiring guidebook into the ever-expanding horizons of writing instruction." -Michael Theune, Robert Harrington Professor of English, Illinois Wesleyan University
