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Robert Glick

Department Chair

Dean’s Office
College of Liberal Arts
rdggla@rit.edu
585-475-4618
Office Hours

by appointment

Office Location
LBR-1311

Robert Glick

Department Chair

Dean’s Office
College of Liberal Arts

Education

BA, University of California at Berkeley; MA, San Francisco State University; Ph.D., University of Utah

Bio

  • About Me: I teach creative writing workshops (emphasis on literary and innovative fiction), courses on digital literature, and the English Capstone. My first book of fiction, Two Californias, was published by C&R Press in 2019, and my first novel, The Asterisms, is forthcoming from Texas Review Press in 2027. Currently I'm working on a literary zombie novel, The Stills. I'm also the coeditor of the Beyond Category section of Seneca Review.

    Areas of Interest: Creative Writing, Digital Literature, Contemporary Fiction, Experimental Narrative, Text/Image, the Undead

    Influences: Kathy Acker, Lydia Davis, Ana Mendieta, Matthew Barney, Rebecca Horn, Anne Carson, George A. Romero, Michael Ondaatje, Haruki Murakami, JODI, JR Carpenter

    URLs of Interest:
    Signatures: RIT's award-winning literary and arts magazine
    Humanities, Computing and Design: RIT's groundbreaking undergraduate degree program
  • Seneca Review: Hobart and William Smith's awesome literary journal
rdggla@rit.edu
585-475-4618
Personal Links
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Select Scholarship

Recent Scholarship

Books

The Asterisms, novel. Texas Review Press, under contract, forthcoming Spring 2027

Two Californias, short stories. C&R Press, 2019

Stories

“Capers of the Girl Moriarties,” Willow Springs 97, 2026

“Apertura,” novel excerpt, Western Humanities Review Volume 76.2, 2026

Creative Nonfiction and Craft Essays

“A Writing into What We Don't Know,” The Masters Review, Volume 10 (2022)

Book Reviews (Peer-Reviewed)

“I Shall Live Here in Your Ghastly Forever: A Review of Ray Levy’s School,” Big Other,

2/2025

“A Field Guide to this Precarious Hive,” Heavy Feather Review 7/5, 2024

Conference Presentations

“The Stills: Autotheory and the Zombie Novel,” Northeast Modern Language Association

(NeMLA) Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 2026

“Conjuring Thisness in Fiction: The Palpable Art of the Particular,” Association of Writers &

Writing Programs (AWP) Conference, Seattle, WA, 2023

“Publishing Poems, Stories, and Essays,” The Ladder Conference, Rochester, NY, 2019

Grants, Fellowships, and Residencies

Miller Research Fellowship, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2025

MacDowell Residency, 2020

Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency, 2019

Faculty Research Fund, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2017, 2019, 2024

Currently Teaching

ENGL-211
Introduction to Creative Writing: Prose and Poetry
3 Credits
Introduction to Creative Writing is designed to guide students into the craft of creative nonfiction and fiction prose or poetry. The primary goal is to experiment with various forms of creative writing and to produce at least one polished work. The course uses peer feedback and workshops in the development of creative writing projects.
ENGL-315
Digital Literature
3 Credits
Since the initial development of the computer, writers have collaborated with programmers, illustrators, and soundscapists to create digital literatures. Following from radical techniques in print literatures such as concrete poetry, Choose Your Own Adventure novels, and reorderable/unbound fictions, digital literatures exploit the potential of digital formats to explore questions of interactivity, readership, authorship, embodiment, and power. In this class, we will learn to analyze and appreciate digital literatures not simply through their content, but also through the relation of content to form, media, programming platforms, and distribution formats. Our consideration of digital literatures will lead us to cell phones, web pages, video games, virtual reality environments, and genome sequencers.
ENGL-389
Digital Creative Writing Workshop
3 Credits
Digital creative writing involves much more than simply writing in digital formats - it can include computer-generated poetry, bots, hypertext fiction, Augmented Reality, or locative narrative. This course is for students who want to explore digital creative writing in all its forms. Through reading, discussion, and exercises, students will produce born digital writings in different applications. Students will learn style and craft techniques for digital environments while also exploring the relationship between content and digital applications. Peer critiques will help students rethink their work and become better editors. Programming knowledge is helpful but not required. This course can be taken up to two times for a total of six semester credit hours as long as the instructors are different.
ENGL-390
Creative Writing Workshop
3 Credits
This course is for students who want to explore the techniques of a single genre of creative writing and add to their skills as a creative writer. Through reading and discussion, students will see their own writing in a larger context. Reading/reflection and writing/revision will be emphasized all semester. The focus will be on the creation of creative works and the learning of stylistic and craft techniques. Ongoing work will be discussed with peer editors, which will not only help students rethink their work but teach them to become better editors. Group critiques will provide the opportunity to give and receive helpful feedback. Each class will rely extensively on the creative writing workshop model, and will focus on a specific genre of print-based creative writing. The course may be taken up to three times for a total of 9 credit hours, as long as the topics are different.
ENGL-500
Capstone in English
3 Credits
Students will use the capstone as an opportunity to design a project that integrates the knowledge they have gained throughout their English program with experience in the professional track. Students will work with faculty to develop, manage, and execute a project that will culminate in the creation of an academic research paper, analysis of text using digital methods, construction of an argument across media, demonstration of theoretical and/or aesthetic language use in digital form, portfolio of previously written coursework that is revised with reflective introduction, or creative work in text or digital form . Students will work with course instructor and/or faculty mentor on project design, creation and reflection . Students will present their project in a venue appropriate to their specific work.
ENGL-511
Advanced Topics in Creative Writing
3 Credits
This course is for students who have completed a college level writing course creative writing workshop and want to explore in-depth a literary genre or add to their skills as a creative writer whether interested in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, or a combination of genresa specific topic within creative writing. The focus will be on the creation of a significant piece of writing for a final project. In addition to planning and producing a single, sustained creative work, students will complete other exercises and assignments in order to experiment with other genresa variety of writing techniques. Through reading and discussion they will see their own writing in a larger context. Weekly Regular class critiques will provide the opportunity to give and receive helpful feedback.

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