Larry Watson
Visiting Professor

I've taught in colleges and universities for over thirty years, and while most of my teaching experience has been in creative writing (especially fiction), I've also taught a wide range of literature courses, including Modern and Contemporary Fiction and Poetry, Midwestern Literature, and seminars in Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, and other major authors. What I always hope for when I teach, whether the class is

a graduate seminar or first year English, is that the classroom will be a place where a free and open conversation in speech and writing--can take place.  I believe that by posing thoughtful questions and considering a variety of answers both the students and the teacher are likely to make meaningful discoveries.

 

Stories and poems of mine have been published in New England Review, North American Review, Gettysburg Review, Mississippi Review and other literary magazines. My essays and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and Washington Post and in such anthologies as The Most Wonderful Books, These United States, Off the Beaten Path, and Baseball and the Game of Life. I've published the novels In A Dark Time, Montana 1948, White Crosses, Laura, Orchard, and Sundown, Yellow Moon as well as the fiction collection Justice and the chapbook of peoms Leaving Dakota .

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Teaching Fields

• Modern and Contemporary American Literature

• Creative Writing

Office Location & Contact

• Coughlin Hall, Room 328
• 414-288-3474
• larry.watson@marquette.edu

Office Hours

• SPRING 2008
• TUTH  11:40-1:30 and by appointment

Teaching Schedule

• SPRING 2008
• 191/1002      TUTH      2:00-3:15
• 196/1001      TUTH    3:35-4:50

Research Interests

• Creative Writing

Selected Publications

     �� Sundown, Yellow Moon. Random House, 2007

     �� Orchard. Random House, 2004.
     �� Laura. Simon & Schuster, 2001.
     �� White Crosses. Simon & Schuster, 1998.
     �� Justice. Simon & Schuster, 1996.
     �� Montana 1948. Simon & Schuster, 1995
     �� In a Dark Time. Simon & Schusterm 1998.

       

             

         

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Honors/Awards

  Larry Watson has received prizes and awards from the following:

• Milkweed Press
• Friends of American Writers
• Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association
• New York Public Library
• Wisconsin Library Association
• Critics' Choice

• Presented with the first High Plains Writer Emeritus award at the High Plains Book Festival, Billings, Montana, October 2007.