Northwestern to Create MFA/MA Hybrid Program
Northwestern University alumna Jennifer Leischner Litowitz ’91 and her husband, Alec Litowitz, have made a gift of up to $10 million to Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences to create a joint Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and Master of Arts in English degree program. The department of English plans to begin enrolling students in the three-year program in the fall of 2018.
Serving as the inaugural director of graduate studies in creative writing will be Reginald Gibbons, the Frances Hooper Professor of Arts and Humanities, professor of English and classics, and director of the Center for the Writing Arts. Students will be taught by faculty in the English department, including Natasha Trethewey, former U.S. poet laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, who joined the University this fall. Northwestern’s TriQuarterly magazine, founded in 1964, and TriQuarterly.org, launched in 2010, will provide hands-on editorial experience for the M.F.A.-M.A. students.
