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Department: Biography and Memoir

Director: Professor Sarah Covington

The Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5402

New York, NY 10016

Email: bam@gc.cuny.edu

https://www.gc.cuny.edu/bam

FACULTY

André Aciman, Ammiel Alcalay, Manu Bhagavan, Martin Burke, Ava Chin, Blanche Cook, Sarah Covington, Katherine Culkin, Joseph Dauben, Bridgett Davis, Marc Dolan, Sara Gomez Wooley, Linda Grasso, Jonathan Gray, Donna Haverty-Stacke, Thomas Kessner, Wayne Koestenbaum, Gail Levin, Sara McDougall, Nancy K. Miller, David Reynolds, Helena Anna Christina Rosenblatt, Morris Rossabi, Domna Stanton, Araceli Tinajero, Jason Tougaw, Harold Veeser

THE PROGRAM

The M.A. Program in Biography and Memoir is one of the only programs in the world to offer a uniquely rich series of courses to students who wish to study biography and memoir, or to become biographers and memoir writers themselves. In addition to resting between empirical history and “creative non-fiction,” or revolutionizing our understanding of individuals in the past, biography and memoir can also straddle the divide between the scholarly and the popular. Students with a broad range of academic backgrounds are encouraged to apply. This interdisciplinary degree would provide the tools in which to pursue a career in journalism and media, professional writing and publishing, oral history studies, documentary filmmaking, digital communications (such as podcasting), archival work, and other rewarding professions.