Amanda Goldblatt
College of Arts and Sciences, English
Instructor; Creative Writing Graduate Advisor
Office:
LWH 2099
Email:
a-goldblatt@neiu.edu
Office Hours:
Fall 2025: Monday/Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 pm.; Tuesday/Thursday, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Country:
United States
Expertise
ENGL 101 Writing I
ENGL 102 Writing II
ENGL 109E First-Year Experience: Write On!
ENGL 202 The World of Drama
ENGL 235 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL 304A Literary Editing
ENGL 305A Literary Publishing
ENGL 340A Elements of Style for Creative Writers
ENGL 374N Writing the Now
ENGL 386 Creative Writing: Fiction I
ENGL 387 Creative Writing: Fiction II
ENGL 392A Writing/Life
ENGL 398A Creative Nonfiction I
ENGL 398B Creative Nonfiction II
ENGL 403 Writing the Now (Graduate Level)
ENGL 404 Elements of Style for Creative Writers (Graduate Level)
Expertise
Fiction (Short Prose Forms and the Novel), Narrative Nonfiction, the Essay, Contemporary Literature, Literary Style, Literary Editing and Publishing, Experimental Narrative Forms
Research Interests
Interdisciplinary and Cross-Disciplinary Creative Processes, Community and Artmaking, the Art and Literature of Resistance, Experimental Pedagogies, the Künstlerroman, Intersectional Feminist Fictions, Visual Narrative Forms
Education
M.F.A., Fiction Writing, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Certificate in Documentary Writing - Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Selected Publications
Books
, 2019, Counterpoint
, 2010, The Cupboard Pamphlet
Selected Recent Publications
fiction unless otherwise noted
, Spring 2023
, 22 March 2023 (essay)
, Spring 2022
with Daniel Monroy Cuevas & Jordan Hicks, for November 2021/March 2022 (video, text, objects)
, 26 February 2021
, 1 May 2020
Selected Reviews and Interviews
The New York Times
“Amanda Goldblatt’s new novel Hard Mouth explores solitude and grief,“ The Chicago Reader
The Millions
NYLON
Electric Literature
The Chicago Tribune