Why Study Literature and Media?
The intersection of literature and media understands the power of the written word across various platforms, communicating the diversity of genres, histories, and cultures.
Why Study Literature and Media at MMC?
The Literature and Media concentration extends students writing, analytical, and research skills to understand and interpret various media, including film, television, and new technology. This is EWL’s home for budding filmmakers, video documentarians, long-form journalists, fan fiction writers, and social media practitioners who bring literary sensibilities to their work.
What You Will Learn
Students in the Literature and Media concentration take a blend of both literature and communication courses, building connections between content, genres, and methods. Within individual courses such as The Visual Memoir, Narrating Climate Change, Special Topics: Video Game Storytelling, and Shakespeare and Film, these connections become even more concrete and expressive.
Program Highlights
Literary New York
New York City bursts with literary history and culture — from Shakespeare in the Park and the Public Theater to the New York Public Library and Strand Bookstore in the East Village.
It’s a city where the streets offer a map of literary history filled with places from which classics sprang. The literary past of New York City is only surpassed by its present— find writing, performance, and cultural events any night of the week.
Career Readiness
Joint MS Program with Pace
The Carson Review
The mark of a thriving undergraduate creative writing program is in the eminence of its student literary magazine: The Carson Review is Marymount Manhattan College’s creative writing journal, published once a year in the spring.
