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Steven Kunert

Senior Instructor/Undergraduate Advisor (ENG major/WR minor)


Oregon State University
Moreland 220
2550 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
Tel: 541-737-1643
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Credentials

  • Katey Lehman Fellow in Creative Writing - Pennsylvania State University, 1989-1990
  • M.A.I.S. 1989 - University of Texas, El Paso
  • B.A. 1979 - University of Texas, El Paso

Research

Steven Kunert has taught various writing courses since coming to OSU in 1998, including Technical Writing, Advertising and Public Relations Writing and Creative Nonfiction Writing. He has published prose and poetry for over 35 years, including recent creative nonfiction pieces, “Minus Tide” in Apeiron Review (Winter 2013) and “Hometown: Four Memories” in Word River (2011), and a prose poem “William Stafford Once Told Me” in Six Sentences: Volume 3 (2010). He also published stories, essays, articles and poems in publications such as Rio Grande Review, The Oregonian, El Paso Times, Corvallis Gazette-Times, Fogged Clarity, decomP, Word Riot, and Poetry Super Highway. He is interested in memoir writing and served as an editor of his father’s autobiography, The Other Side of the Coin by Hans J. Kunert (Heritage Books, 2002), deemed “the most memorable book of the year” by The Bradenton (FL) Herald; his article, “Autobiographical Writing: Therapeutic for Aged Individuals, Meaningful for Gerontologists,” appeared in the Journal of Aging and Identity in 1997. Kunert has served as Undergraduate Academic Advisor since 2005 and editor of the English Letter since 1999.

Course Information

WR 408 Workshop
Available Spring Term
CREATIVE NONFICTION: SHORT LITERARY SKETCHES   
There are forms of prose that are off the beaten track from traditional forms (essays, fiction), fine passages of literature that depict the multitudinous “snapshots” that comprise human life, experiences and imagination, and the natural and societal environments around us. These “defying” forms of writing are usually short in length and come in their own various structures and with their own “personalities”: prose poems, literary sketches, vignettes, flash essays, and short lyric or meditative essays. Students will read and dissect these kinds of prose works and mostly enjoy applying their heads and hearts and hands at writing them.
No text required; readings will be provided in class or as online assignments.

CREATIVE NONFICTION: SHORT LITERARY SKETCHES   

There are forms of prose that are off the beaten track from traditional forms (essays, fiction), fine passages of literature that depict the multitudinous “snapshots” that comprise human life, experiences and imagination, and the natural and societal environments around us. These “defying” forms of writing are usually short in length and come in their own various structures and with their own “personalities”: prose poems, literary sketches, vignettes, flash essays, and short lyric or meditative essays. Students will read and dissect these kinds of prose works and mostly enjoy applying their heads and hearts and hands at writing them.

No text required; readings will be provided in class or as online assignments.

Contact Info

Writing, Literature, & Film 238 Moreland Hall 541.737.3244
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