Introduction to the Special Topic Issue on Creativity and Writing Pedagogy

Authors

  • Harriet Levin Millan Drexel University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/wap.v4i2.159

Keywords:

creative writing, neurology, cognitive psychology, education, teaching

Author Biography

  • Harriet Levin Millan, Drexel University

    Harriet Levin Millan (MFA, University of Iowa Writers Workshop) is an associate teaching professor in the Department of English and Philosophy and director of the Certificate Program in Writing and Publishing at Drexel University. Her books include Girl in Cap and Gown (Mammoth Books) and The Christmas Show (Beacon Press), which was chosen by Eavan Boland for the Barnard New Women Poets Prize and also awarded the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award. A former New York State Poet in the Schools, she has received grants from The Vermont Studio Center and from Summer Literary Seminars for travel to Kenya. She is currently writing a novel set in Kenya, Sudan, and Philadelphia. The first chapter can be found in the January 2011 Issue of The Kenyon Review.

References

Bean, John C. (1996) Engaging Ideas: The Professors Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking and Active Learning in the Classroom. New York: Jossey-Bass.

Bloom, H. (1997) The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. New York: Oxford University Press.

Chase, W. G. and Simon, H. A. (1973) Perception in chess. Cognitive Psychology 4: 55–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(73)90004-2.

Flaherty, A. W. (2004) The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block and the Creative Brain. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Gladwell, M. (2008) Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Backbay Books.

Sternberg, R. J. (ed.) (1999) Handbook of Creativity. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

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Published

2012-12-28

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2012)

Section

Guest Editorial

License

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How to Cite

Levin Millan, H. (2012). Introduction to the Special Topic Issue on Creativity and Writing Pedagogy. Writing and Pedagogy, 4(2), 159-167. https://doi.org/10.1558/wap.v4i2.159

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