As both a writing and creative writing professor, I encourage students to participate in and critique contemporary culture. I aim to treat students like young artists, scholars, and thinkers who are seeking to carve a path through the abundance of information they experience at the university and in their everyday lives. Writing—both academic and creative—can help make sense of this abundance; the writer can document, complicate, or analyze this information. As such, I encourage my students to be active participants of our contemporary intellectual terrain, as opposed to being passive receivers of it.
Robert Fitterman
Clinical Professor
M.A. - Temple University
B.A. - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Writing, Creative Writing, Contemporary Art & Poetry
Writing Faculty, Bard College - The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts
New York Foundation of the Arts Award, Poetry, 2011
MoMA Reading Series (proposal awarded for Collective Task), 2011
Faculty Excellence Award in Creative Professional Development, 2010
Recent Poetry and Criticism books include:
- Rob’s Word Shop, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2019.
- No, Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself. Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, 2014.
- Holocaust Museum, Counterpath Books, Denver, 2013.
- Now we are friends, Truck Books, New York, 2011
- Rob the Plagiarist, Roof Books, New York, 2009
- Notes On Conceptualisms, (co-authored with Vanessa Place), Ugly Duckling Presse, New York, 2009
- Sprawl: Metropolis 30A, Make Now Books, Los Angeles, 2009