2024-2025 Graduate Catalog
Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing
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Additional Departmental Information
Advising
The graduate program director serves as advisor to students in the program. The graduate advisor helps students plan their courses of study based on specific program requirements.
Internships
Internships are available through Emerson in Boston and around the country. During the internships, students receive professional training in books, magazine media, journals, and literary agencies. Emerson students in Boston have worked with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Bedford/St. Martin’s, Adams Media, Beacon Press, Godine, Candlewick Press, Charlesbridge, America’s Test Kitchen, Cengage, Wiley, Pearson, Cell Press, Harvard University Press, Harvard Education Publishing Group, Harvard Business Review, MIT Press, MIT Technology Review, The Boston Globe, WBUR, GBH, Boston magazine, and Boston Review, among others. Students may take up to 8 internship credits. Students are required to attend class meetings and complete assignments with the departmental internship coordinator. Students in the online MFA in Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing are not eligible for internship credits.
Teaching Appointments
Students enrolled in the MFA in Creative Writing or MA in Publishing and Writing programs who are interested in teaching at the college level are encouraged to enroll in WR 600 Teaching College Composition. The director of the Writing Studies Program and other faculty interview students who have completed the course and who want to be considered for part-time faculty positions. Successful completion of WR 600 does not guarantee a teaching appointment, but the course is a prerequisite for teaching composition at Emerson.
Students enrolled in the MFA in Popular Fiction who are interested in teaching at the college level and who live near Boston may request enrollment in WR 600 Teaching College Composition. The course must be taken in person and would substitute for 4 credits of literature. Decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis. Students should discuss with the graduate program director.
WLP graduate students are eligible for teaching appointments as determined by departmental hiring policies for affiliated faculty. Teaching appointments are not tuition remission positions, but rather part-time employment.
WLP Class Enrollment Policy
Students who do not attend classes during the first week of the term may be dropped from the course at the first class meeting of the second week if they are still absent. Students who are registered for a course and must miss the first week’s class(es) for reasons such as illness should notify the instructor. Students are responsible for the work and assignments of the first week. On-campus students are not permitted to enroll concurrently in two workshops in the same genre.
WLP Change of Degree Policy
A graduate student from within or from outside the department who wishes to transfer into a WLP graduate program (Publishing and Writing, Creative Writing, or Popuar Fiction) must satisfy the Admission Requirements for the particular program.
Writing, Literature, and Publishing Faculty
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