COURSE INFORMATION:

Students enroll in the following two courses:
ENGL 339: The Travel Memoir - Writing In and Of Place - 3 credits
ENGL 390: Studies in Film - Global City Cinema - 3 credits

PROGRAM INFORMATION:

The artistic ties the city of Charleston has with the town of Spoleto are of inestimable value, and the purpose of this program is to bring students to our sister city to write and study literature, and to meet with artists and writers living there, so that they may be inspired to continue their education with an even greater sense of the importance of art and of writing. Students and faculty will be staying at a villa compound just outside Spoleto, where we will share meals, hold readings, and spend quiet time writing and reading. One special group dinner each week will feature intensive and lively discussions of the craft of writing. In addition, we will be going on one three-day excursion to Florence, where students will take guided tours of such important artistic and historical sites such as the Uffizi Gallery, the Duomo, and the Galleria dell’Academmia; one evening will be spend in salon with an area painter, writer, and historian.

PROGRAM DIRECTORS:

Mr. Bret Lott
Department of English
lottb@cofc.edu
843-953-5664

Mr. Lott is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at the College of Charleston. The author of fourteen books, including two New York Times bestsellers, Lott’s work has been translated into six languages. He has traveled extensively, having lived in Ireland, Israel (where he served as Fulbright Senior American Scholar and Writer-in-Residence at Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv), and France, where he taught creative writing at CofC’s Annot Campus. Since 2010 he has been director of the Spoleto Summer Study Abroad program.

Dr. John Bruns
Department of English
brunsj@cofc.edu
843-953-4957

Dr. Bruns received his Ph.D. in Film, Literature and Culture at the University of Southern California in 2002 and is Associate Professor of English. He also directs and teaches courses for the Film Studies program at CofC. He is the author of Loopholes: Reading Comically (Transaction Publishers, Rutgers—the State University of New Jersey, 2013). His work has appeared in Hitchcock Annual, Film Criticism, New Review of Film & Television Studies, and The Journal of Narrative Theory.