Melora Wolff
Associate Professor and DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE WRITING
BA, English, Brown University
MFA, Fiction, Columbia University
Office: Palamountain 323
Phone: (518) 580-5197
Email: mwolff@skidmore.edu
Teaching and Research Interests:
- Creative Writing: Nonfiction, Fiction
- Expository Writing
- Film
- Literature: Fiction, Poetry, Essay
- Writing About Theater and Drama
Courses Taught:
- EN 105: Body Narratives; Transformations; Bad Boys: Rebel Artists; Fantastic Imagination; Realms of the Unreal
- EN 105: Fantasy and Film
- EN 105H: Childhood Dramas; Childhood in Cinema
- EN 205: Personal Experience & the Critical Voice; The Poetry of Prose
- EN 213: Poetry
- EN 211: Fiction
- EN 228: Informal Forms: The Personal Essay
- EN 229: Words and Images
- EN 229W: Childhood in Cinema
- EN 280: Nonfiction/Personal Voice; Nonfiction/Lyric Essays
- EN 281: Introduction to Fiction Writing
- EN 364: Personal Essays; Reading and Writing Memoir
- EN 377: Reading for Writers/Nonfiction
- EN 378: Nonfiction: Influence as Essay
- EN 378: Nonfiction: Lyric Essays
- EN 378: Nonfiction: Lyric and Narrative Essays
- EN 379: Nonfiction: Landscape and Memory
- EN 380: Fiction Workshop
- EN 381: Advanced Projects in Nonfiction
- HF 100: Honors Forum: Visual Autobiography
- TA 251: Writing About Drama
- Theater 334 Writing About Theater
- Theater 334 Honors: Essays About Theater
Select Publications:
Book: Bequeath: Essays (LSU Press, Fall 2024), Best American Fantasy, Brick, Speculative Nonfiction, The Chronicle Review, The New York Times, The Normal School, The Southern Review, Every Father's Daughter: 24 Women Writers Remember Their Fathers, The New Brick Reader
Selected Honors:
- Thomas A. Wilhelmus Award in Nonfiction, Southern Indiana Review
- Notable Essay of the Year, Best American Essays (three)
- Selected Prose, Best New Writing
- Special Mentions in Nonfiction, Pushcart Prize (two)
- Fellowship in Nonfiction, The MacDowell Colony for the Arts
- Eli Cantor Fellowship in Nonfiction, Corporation of Yaddo
- Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing, Bucknell University
- Artists' Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, New York Foundation for the Arts
