Adam Novy

Writing Associate
Office: Humanities 134A
Office Hours: 9-11am MW
Email: [email protected]

Adam Novy has been teaching writing, fiction and the liberal arts at Scripps, Pitzer and the Claremont Graduate School since 2008. His novel, The Avian Gospels, came out in 2010, and has been translated into Spanish and French. His work has appeared in The Believer, The LA Review of Books, The Denver Quarterly, and many other journals. He won The Sands Award for Distinguished Teaching at Scripps three times, and Faculty of the Year in 2017.

Academic History

MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BA, The University of Denver, English

Areas of Expertise

Literature
Fiction
Digital media
Film
Mythology
Race
Gender

Personal Interests

Satanic black metal, soccer, basketball, meditation, Buddhism, paganism, Gnosticism, quantum physics and astrophysics, the Ukulele

Selected Publications

The Avian Gospels, a novel, published by Hobart in 2010
Published in Spanish in 2012 by Saix Barral
Published in French in 2013 by Inculte
鈥淒rinking Ranch and Getting Paid to Look at Others 鈥楧rinking Ranch鈥欌€� (forthcoming), The Believer Logger
鈥淕od=Satan=Odin=Hitler鈥� (forthcoming), The Believer Logger
鈥淵ou May Now Kiss the Screen!鈥� (forthcoming), The Believer Logger
鈥淲ishes Lies and Dreams: Sabine Hossenfelder鈥檚 Lost in Math and the World That Made It Necessary,” The Believer Logger, 2018
鈥淩edpill Bluepill Blackpill Jewpill,鈥� The Believer Logger, 2018
鈥淪acred Geometry,鈥� The LA Review of Books, 2018
鈥淗omer and Hatred: Jordan Peterson and Mythology,鈥�聽The LA Review of Books, 2018
鈥淎n Atheist鈥檚 Explainer For Roy Moore,鈥� The Believer Logger, 2018

Awards

Faculty of the Year 2017, 澳门六合彩开奖记录资料
Sands Award for Distinguished Teaching 2009, 2011, 2018
Waiters Fellowship, Breadloaf 1997

Courses Taught

Writing 50: Me vs. the Garlic Bread She Told Me Not To Worry About: Digital Media and the Self; Feminist Quantum Physics; Patty Hearst; Incompetence; Shakespeare and Hitchcock; The Voice of Ophelia: Hamlet From Ophelia鈥檚 Perspective (Scripps)
Core 2: Me and the Boys Come Back From Area 51; The Construction of Kinship (Scripps)
Core 1: Community; Truth (Scripps)
Creative Writing: Beginning Fiction Writing Workshop (Scripps & Pitzer); Intermediate Fiction Writing Workshop (Pitzer); Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop (Scripps); Thesis Adviser, Fiction Majors (Scripps)
Advanced Pedagogy and Content Knowledge in the English Classroom (Claremont Graduate School)