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Adam Novy

Writing Associate
Office: Humanities 134A
Office Hours: 9-11am MW
Email: anovy@scrippscollege.edu

Adam Novy has been teaching writing, fiction and the liberal arts at Scripps, Pitzer and the Claremont Graduate School since 2008. His novel, The Avian Gospels, came out in 2010, and has been translated into Spanish and French. His work has appeared in The Believer, The LA Review of Books, The Denver Quarterly, and many other journals. He won The Sands Award for Distinguished Teaching at Scripps three times, and Faculty of the Year in 2017.

Academic History

MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
BA, The University of Denver, English

Areas of Expertise

  • Literature
  • Fiction
  • Digital media
  • Film
  • Mythology
  • Race
  • Gender

Personal Interests

Satanic black metal, soccer, basketball, meditation, Buddhism, paganism, Gnosticism, quantum physics and astrophysics, the Ukulele

Selected Publications

  • The Avian Gospels, a novel, published by Hobart in 2010
  • Published in Spanish in 2012 by Saix Barral
  • Published in French in 2013 by Inculte
  • “Drinking Ranch and Getting Paid to Look at Others ‘Drinking Ranch’” (forthcoming), The Believer Logger
  • “God=Satan=Odin=Hitler” (forthcoming), The Believer Logger
  • “You May Now Kiss the Screen!” (forthcoming), The Believer Logger
  • “Wishes Lies and Dreams: Sabine Hossenfelder’s Lost in Math and the World That Made It Necessary,” The Believer Logger, 2018
  • “Redpill Bluepill Blackpill Jewpill,” The Believer Logger, 2018
  • “Sacred Geometry,” The LA Review of Books, 2018
  • “Homer and Hatred: Jordan Peterson and Mythology,” The LA Review of Books, 2018
  • “An Atheist’s Explainer For Roy Moore,” The Believer Logger, 2018

Awards

Faculty of the Year 2017, Scripps College
Sands Award for Distinguished Teaching 2009, 2011, 2018
Waiters Fellowship, Breadloaf 1997

Courses Taught

  • Writing 50: Me vs. the Garlic Bread She Told Me Not To Worry About: Digital Media and the Self; Feminist Quantum Physics; Patty Hearst; Incompetence; Shakespeare and Hitchcock; The Voice of Ophelia: Hamlet From Ophelia’s Perspective (Scripps)
  • Core 2: Me and the Boys Come Back From Area 51; The Construction of Kinship (Scripps)
  • Core 1: Community; Truth (Scripps)
  • Creative Writing: Beginning Fiction Writing Workshop (Scripps & Pitzer); Intermediate Fiction Writing Workshop (Pitzer); Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop (Scripps); Thesis Adviser, Fiction Majors (Scripps)
  • Advanced Pedagogy and Content Knowledge in the English Classroom (Claremont Graduate School)