One of my favorite memories from being an English Major at Duke was the day that Professor Malouf took our fiction workshop on a “field trip” around Durham. We spent two-hours walking around downtown, writing down snippets of language that inspired us so we could later write them into our stories. As a sophomore without a car at the time, it was one of the first times that I’d truly gotten to explore the city and learn what it had to offer, both for me as a writer and as a temporary resident. A close second would have to be listening to mambos and boleros in the Crowell Building with Professor Ferraro as he showed us how literature can come to life through music.
In the fall, I am looking forward to starting my first year in Emerson College’s MFA program in Fiction writing.
Faculty Remarks:
Kristen Siegel
(of the sassy intelligence)
Here is a brief excerpt from the writing that Kristen did in one of my creative writing classes. I will remember her always!” – Melissa Malouf
Whether you truly bought into the mythology of diapered Cupids and a dozen red roses, we were all indoctrinated into the Hallmark Cult from a very young, very susceptible age. No elementary school kid is going to arrive at the conclusion that because some crusty Roman dude (Wikipedia will tell you that he’s actually the patron saint of epilepsy) died on February 14th, they should a. find a beloved and b. shower them in chocolates, flowers, and intimidatingly-large stuffed animals….”
