Naomi Guttman

Teaching

Everyone Eats: Food Culture, Security, Sustainability, and Media in New York City

The Spring 2024 New York City Program will focus on the study of food policy and culture and their effects on the environment, examining issues of identity, equity, sustainability, and security in the great “kitchen” of New York City. We will focus on New York as a classroom in which we learn about our relationship to food via media and culture, as well as the environmental and social effects of food policy. Field trips, courses, and independent studies will center on discovering the city via food cultures, sustainability, policy, and advocacy.
 

Food in Literature and Film

Always a necessity and sometimes a luxury, food connects all people to the planet and to one another. This course will explore how authors and filmmakers use food and cooking in their works as a means of exposing complex social relationships, histories, and identities. The list of authors we may read includes Laura Esquivel, Aimee Bender, Isak Dinesen, Franz Kafka, MFK Fisher, Ruth Reichl, and many poets. We will also look at films such as Big Night; Eat, Drink, Man, Woman; and Ratatouille.
 

Honors Project in Creative Writing

Independent study under the supervision of creative writing faculty, for honors candidates who wish to qualify for honors in creative writing.
 

Intermediate Poetry Workshop

For students whose work and purpose have developed sufficiently to warrant continuing work in poetry. Regular writing and reading assignments as well as critiques in class.
 

Introductory Poetry and Fiction Workshop

Introduction to fundamental techniques of fiction and poetry. Regular writing and reading assignments as well as critiques in class.
 

Senior Seminar in Creative Writing

For students whose work and purpose have developed sufficiently to warrant advanced work in fiction or poetry. Students will construct individual projects leading to a final collection of writings in the form of a novella, a series of stories, or a series of poems. Regular writing and reading assignments, as well as critiques in class.