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Who will really teach you Most MFA programs can give you a dazzling list of faculty — famous writers, household names who have taught in the past, who sometimes teach, or will occasionally teach in the future. Maybe they will be there when you arrive, or maybe they won’t be. You should really ask. If you listen closely to the answers, you will discover that the following promise is rare and precious: at Hunter, there are only three teachers in each of the disciplines. These are our faculty. These are the writers who will really teach you. What you see is what you get. It is true that on the fiction course you can only take two classes in fiction with Peter Carey and, on the memoir course, one with the extraordinary Eva Hoffman, but either one of them might be your thesis advisor in which case you would work with them intensely one on one for either one or two semesters. Colum McCann will definitely teach you fiction, if you are on the fiction course. Four classes in four semesters. Do check out his website and get to know his work. Nathan Englander will teach and advise fiction students in the Spring of 2008. Take a look at his web site, and follow the active links for our poetry faculty: Tom Sleigh, Donna Masini, Jan Heller Levi. We’ve provided active links so you can read their books. Louise DeSalvo, Kathryn Harrison and Eva Hoffman teach memoir. And Meena Alexander teaches both poetry and memoir. Clicking on any of their names will take you to a page where you can feast on literature, literature they have made. Of course it doesn’t tell you how they teach. To get this key information you should come to an open house and talk to their students.
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