Ross Angelella – Editor

A campus-wide literary center for the study of creative writing across culture, the JPWH director’s responsibilities are to teach for the program and advise students; respond to student concerns and operational needs; set policy as needed. Oversee all program operations, including budgetary oversight and reporting in consultation with ARHU Dean’s office. Coordinate all recruitment and admissions activities. Maintain website and outreach communications as per current practice. Oversee scheduling, curriculum, and any relevant development in collaboration with the ARHU Dean’s Office. Develop and implement co-curricular programming, in collaboration with the Creative Writing faculty in the Department of English and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Work with Resident Life and Facilities Management, as needed, to address classroom, equipment, or living space issues. Recruit, hire, and supervise program staff, including Associate Director and Graduate Assistants

Teach students to write fiction scripts for film through both lecture, film screenings and intense workshopping of material. Course Objectives: to understand the basic vocabulary of film and video production; recognize the script’s role within the overall goals of production; comprehend the attitudes necessary for successful script writing; understand the appropriate formats for specific projects; develop strategies for conceptualizing a project in visual terms; develop a writing style that has simplicity and clarity; analyze and order scripts into appropriate sequencing; understand dramatic elements as they apply to script writing; adapt materials from other media to the needs of film and video.

Educate students on professional writing rhetorical strategies and skills required for effective workplace writing and communication necessary for success in their careers, such as how to identify and analyze audiences; establish credibility; research topics in a specific professional discipline; and write and edit for readability and suitability to audience and purpose. Course objectives: to understand how writing contributes to students’ formation as professionals; to understand the various roles that documents play in their particular field; to research the genres and styles particular to their intended career field; to design projects that exemplify a particular genre and style; to craft sentences, paragraphs, sections, chapters, visual complements, and entire documents for maximum clarity and accessibility to a specific, declared audience; to collaborate with others in evaluating and improving one another’s work; to integrate visual rhetoric into documents; and to develop documents for employment and professional school applications.

Introduction to Creative Writing; Fiction Writing I; Fiction Writing II | Beginning, intermediate and advanced fiction writing programs offering a blend of workshops, writing sessions and lectures devoted to the fundamentals of fiction writing, inspiring students to experiment with new approaches and modes of creativity. Focused on student and professional work, emphasizing the critical reading of appropriate literary models, both historical and contemporary that demonstrate exemplary technique. Examined craft in practice, specifically story structure, point of view, character development, voice, tense, figurative language, dramatic setting, dialog and the ethics of writing fiction. Students also worked with revision, reflection, and rewriting techniques to complete and polish their short fiction.

Ross has been a freelance writer since 2009, penning numerous work-for-hire manuscripts, including three Nancy Drew mysteries under the pen name Carolyn Keene and one Hardy Boys Clue Book under Franklin W. Dixon. He also has been a freelance editor since 2015 when his wife, Kate, founded a full-service craft-based editing agency, providing professional, in-depth and honest critiques to writers across multiple platforms. She specializes in editing Young Adult, New Adult and Literary fiction as well as genre fiction, including: Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller and Crime fiction. The mission is simple: working with writers to develop their skills, hone their craft, and discover their own unique voice.