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Jones Lectureship

The Jones Lectureships at Stanford University are university teaching positions available to previous Stegner Fellows and available in fiction and poetry. Jones Lecturers design classes, mentor undergraduates, and provide the bulk of the teaching in the undergraduate program. The Lectureship is named for Richard Foster Jones, head of the Stanford English Department when Wallace Stegner founded Stanford's Creative Writing Program following the end of Second World War. The original $500,000 endowment for the Lectureship came from Dr. E. H. Jones, a Texas oilman and brother of Richard Foster Jones.[1] The official title of "Jones Lecturerer" is only used for the first four years of a lectureship, but informally all Stanford's Creative Writing Lecturers are called "the Joneses."

Appointments that were previously available to former Stegner Fellows but that no longer exist include the Marsh McCall Lectureship and the Draper Lectureship. The Marsh McCall Lecturer was an appointment to oversee the staffing and teaching of creative writing courses at Stanford Continuing Studies. It is named for Classics Professor Marsh McCall,[2] former dean of Continuing Studies. Former Marsh McCall Lecturers include Julie Orringer, Stephen Elliott, Eric Puchner, Adam Johnson and Angela Pneuman. The Draper Lecturer was a teaching position also available to previous Stegner Fellows that taught undergraduate courses in creative non-fiction. It is named for Phyllis Draper and William Henry Draper III.

List of notable Jones Lecturers edit

References edit

  1. ^ Willrich, Patricia R. (12 December 2003). "A Perspective on Wallace Stegner". VQR Online. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
  2. ^ Elliott, Vicky (September 2017). "Admired for His Wit and Kindness". The Stanford Magazine. Retrieved 3 September 2022.
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