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  • Seth Graves

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    sgraves@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - 79 Fifth Avenue

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    Seth Graves

    Profile

    Seth Graves has taught at The New School since 2014. He teaches literary publishing and creative nonfiction and serves as Faculty Advisor to the undergraduate Honors Writing and Democracy program’s literary journal, 12th Street. In his writing courses, he encourages attention to the creative process, joyful investigation, and collage. He works for the Center for Teaching and Learning at Baruch College and was selected as a 2021 Carnegie Educational Technology Fellow for the City University of New York, where he's taught since 2012. Elsewhere, Seth is a magazine editor, critic, poet, musician, and media historian. He was educated at The Missouri School of Journalism (BA, MA), The New School (MFA), and The Graduate Center, City University of New York (PhD). His writing has been published in Coldfront, Poets & Writers, Boog City, H_NGM_N, Barrow Street, The Boiler, and No, Dear. He was associate editor of Coldfront (2012-2018) and edits the forthcoming arts magazine Future Concerns.


    Degrees Held

    BA, MA, MFA, MPhil, PhD (ABD)


    Research Interests

    Creative Writing, Composing, Androgogy, Speculative Writing, Rhetoric, Poetics 


    Future Courses

    Art of Speculative Fiction
    NWRW 2315, Fall 2025

    Writing About the Arts
    NWRW 3881, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    12th St. Editing Seminar
    NWRW 3895, Spring 2025

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