Creative writing in academia: with Erin La Cour and Marie Beauchamps

Abstract

The third episode of NICast features a conversation with Erin La Cour (VU) and Marie Beauchamps about the place and potential of practicing creative writing in an academic environment. Whereas La Cour’s research focuses on the pedagogical merits of comics, and their affordances with the field of graphic medicine and the medical humanities, Beauchamps uses creative writing techniques as a way of providing a new perspective on academic writing through organizing workshops.

This episodes’ conversation between La Cour, Beauchamps, Hesselberth and De Bloois deals with the following questions and topics:How to use creative writing as a pedagogical tool?How can experimenting with different modes of writing be a process of unlearning?How to do deal with the necessity of grading creative work?The potential of creative writing a as tool for inclusivity in the classroomLeaving academia and the possibility of working in academia from the outsideThe place of the humanities in public discourse