Critical Creative Production

Critical Creative Production

By embracing alternatives to traditional scholarship, Critical Creative Production gives students opportunities to develop and put to work creative skills. A world of so many languages, cultural practices, and artistic and scholarly traditions offers countless ways to conduct inquiry and construct meaning. Guided by this understanding, the concentration’s courses use creative processes supported by research, theory, and analysis as tools for examining how objects, arts, places, institutions, practices, ideas, and other phenomena are shaped by global forces. Faculty writers, artists, and scholars mentor CCP students as they produce their own creative writing, literary journalism, literary translation, film, music, performance, digital media, podcasts, fashion, and photography. Through the process of making, students navigate the tensions and possibilities presented by creating and critiquing in global contexts. In this way, CCP’s approach to global studies combines creative work with critical analysis of globalism’s impact on the processes that shape such work.
  • Creative Writing
  • Criticism
  • Curation
  • Design and Fashion
  • Digital Media and Virtual Reality
  • Documentary and Film 
  • Food Studies
  • Literary Journalism
  • Material Culture
  • Music
  • Photography and Visual Culture
  • Theater and Performance
  • Translation Studies

  • Hotel No Tell: Cross-Conceptual Decoloniality [short film and short stories]

  • Lost in Localization: Translating Culture Through the Localization of Video Games [traditional thesis]

  • Matadero Salomone’s Slaughterhouse Architecture [documentary film]

  • Paint the Town: Language of a Changing City [essay and photography]

  • Tag & Seek: A Street Art Activism Project in Athens, Istanbul, New York, and Instagram [action research project]

  • The Personal is Cultural: Feminist Narratives in South Africa’s Visual Cultures [multimedia blog]

  • Translating Diaspora: Postcolonial Stories from Contemporary Italy [literary translation]

  • Zahida Parveen: Portrait of a Home-Based Worker [documentary film]

Suzanne Maria Menghraj, Chair
Research: Art Criticism; Critical Theory; Experimental Translation; Literary Essay; Nature Writing; Archives

Mario Cancel-Bigay
Research: Ethnomusicology; singer-songwriter; expert on the Puerto Rican cuatro; poetry and poetry translation; anticolonialism; neoliberalism; Latin American decolonial studies; Caribbean studies; Marxist/Post-Marxist studies; music of the 1960s and 1970s with a focus on Puerto Rico and Québec

Sean Eve
Research: Creative Writing; Art History; Phenomenology; Cognitive Psychology

Robert Fitterman
Research: Writing; Creative Writing; Contemporary Poetry; Contemporary Art; Global Conceptual Arts; History of the Avant-Garde

Jessamyn Hatcher
Research: Fashion; Critical Theory; Ethnography; Labor History; Journalism

Janet Hendrickson
Research: Translation studies; Latin American literature; experimental poetics; encyclopedism; nonfiction writing

Susanna Horng
Research: Creative Writing; Documentary and Film; Ethnography; Book Arts; Fairy Tales

Philip Kain
Research: Digital Video Production; Multimedia and Visual Ethnography; Screen Aesthetics; Creative Writing; Middle Grade and Young Adult Literature

Matthew Longabucco
Research: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Essay and Composition Theory; Film; Modernism in Literature; Contemporary Art

Carley Moore
Research: Essays; Fiction; Poetry; Youth Activism; Intersectional Feminism

James Polchin
Research: Creative Nonfiction; Literary Journalism; Histories of Sexuality and Gender; Visual Studies; Crime Narratives

Stephen Policoff
Research: Creative Writing; Contemporary Fiction; Dream Studies; the Paranormal; Autobiographical Fiction

Montana Ray
Research: Translation Studies; Latin American and Southern Cultures; Performance Studies; Photography; Ethnicity, Race, and Indigenous Studies; Archives and Archival Practices; Feminism.

Martin Reichert
Research: Sensory Studies; Mimetic Theory; Religious Violence; Anthropology; Photography

Tamuira Reid
Research: [TBD]

Tim Tomlinson
Research: Creative Writing; Creative Non-fiction; Oral History; Photography; Music

Amy Wilkinson
Research: Essay Writing; Creative Writing; Contemporary Fiction; Food Writing; Modernist Fiction

Mahnaz Yousefzadeh
Research: Aesthetics and Politics, Art Theory, Ontology of Contemporary, Writing Memoir, Mediterranean History

Jennifer Zoble
Research: Literary Translation and Translation Studies; Multimedia Essay; Radio and Sound Art; Theater; Hybrid and Multilingual Literature