Ashbery Digital Mapping Project

Level: Undergraduate, Graduate

Division: The New School for Public Engagement

School: School of Writing

Department: MFA Writing Program

Course Number: NWRG 5501

Course Format: Seminar

Location: NYC campus

Permission Required: Yes

Topics:

• Information Design
• Civic Engagement
• Literature

Description:
This seminar is part of an ongoing sequence of classes that involves a digital mapping of John Ashbery’s work. Students work on various projects – annotating objects, such as paintings, curios, architecture, and mementos; anthologizing and annotating poems according to various subjects and themes, such as music or childhood; Ashbery’s poetry as well as his prose. The class is inherently multidisciplinary and is team-taught by poets, critics, and digital designers. Courses are intended for MFA students and otherwise by explicit permission by the director or associate director of the Writing Program.

Restrictions:

Level

Open to Graduate students.

Open to Undergraduate students.