Creative Writing and the Uses of Theory: Forms and Institutions of Contemporary US Literature KU Leuven
American literary production has become increasingly enmeshed with the institutions of higher education. At the heart of this phenomenon lies a proliferation of creative writing courses: between 1994 and 2014 the number of Writing MFAs in the US more than tripled. Many writers have formed defining ties with universities, first graduating from and later teaching at such programmes. For the literary historian Mark McGurl, this development ...