Sessional Lecturer - WRR312H1S: Writing Literary Journalism

Date Posted: 07/02/2026
Req ID: 49057
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Innis College
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)
Existing Vacancy: Yes

Description:

Course title: WRR312H1S: Writing Literary Journalism (In-Person)

Course description: This course introduces students to works by some of the most influential literary journalists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Classes will be devoted to the following genres: the personal essay, the profile, the polemic, the memoir, literary reportage, and cultural criticism. Students will look closely at key writers who worked/work across these genres: George Orwell, James Baldwin, and Joan Didion, among others. Over the semester, students will develop and write a feature-length work of literary journalism in a genre of their choice, to be refined through peer workshop and instructor feedback.