Max Chapnick
Postdoctoral Teaching Associate in English
Max Chapnick recently defended his dissertation “Wild Science: Radical Politics and Rejected Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Fiction” at Boston University. Before that he earned a B.S. in Physics, studied creative writing on a Fulbright scholarship, and worked in communications for the non-profit GiveDirectly.
He has taught courses on first-year writing, environmental literature, science fiction, and the political history of Boston.Max Chapnick is broadly interested in the relationship between science, politics, and narrative form, especially in nineteenth-century fiction, and he enjoys teaching literature, writing, and interdisciplinary topics.
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Education
PhD in English and American Literature, Boston University
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Contact
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Address
035 Lake Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
First-Year Writing
ENGW 1111
Designed for students to study and practice writing in a workshop setting. Students read a range of texts in order to describe and evaluate the choices writers make and apply that knowledge to their own writing and explore how writing functions in a range of academic, professional, and public contexts. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to conduct research using primary and secondary sources; how to write for various purposes and audiences in multiple genres and media; and how to give and receive feedback, to revise their work, and to reflect on their growth as writers.
