Teaching at Hugo House
How to propose a class at Hugo House
Send a proposal by e-mail to Alix Wilber, program director, Richard Hugo House (programs@hugohouse.org). Please attach your proposal and accompanying resumé and teaching statement as Word documents. Be sure your name, address, phone and e-mail contact information are included.
Course Proposal Submission Deadlines for 2009
- Winter 2009:
- Spring 2009:
- Summer 2009:
- Fall 2009:
Guidelines
For teachers who have previously taught at Hugo House, a complete proposal includes:
- Course description (100 words or less);
- Bio (100 words or less);
- Days and times you absolutely CANNOT teach;
- Resume or CV if credentials have significantly changed, or if it's been two years or more since you've taught at Hugo House.
For teachers new to Hugo House, a complete proposal includes the following:
- Resume or CV;
- Teaching manifesto/philosophy (please limit to 500 words);
- Course description for a one-day class (100 words or less);
- Bio (100 words or less);
- 300 dpi jpg photo of yourself;
- Days and times you absolutely CANNOT teach;
- Evidence of effective teaching (e.g., evaluations from students). If this information is not available, the proposal should instead include evidence of potential effective teaching (i.e., a referral or recommendation);
- Before acceptance, revision of the course description and/or an interview may be requested.
New teachers should note that Richard Hugo House does not teach general writing classes. While we do offer classes for writing students of all levels, potential teachers should focus their course proposal on creative writing. Please refer to a list of classes for examples.
Proposals are accepted on the basis of their alignment with the Hugo Writing Classes philosophy, an individual teacher's experience or potential, the balance the class will bring to term offerings, the uniqueness of the class, the course's ability to meet the needs of the market and Hugo House's space constraints.
Teaching Pitch Template
Your full contact info here:
Home address
Telephone number
E-mail address
Example proposal for a six-week class:
Winter 2007: Hugo Writing Class Proposal
Proposal for six-week class
Ideas of Drift It's not just Donald Trump and Thoreau who want a place in the city and a retreat in the country. American experience asks us to live in two different places all the time. I grew up poor and I must be rich. I'm a vegan who chews tobacco. In between is delicious drifting. It's where we spend most of our time, in fact, and in this class we will explore the pleasures, strange departures and twilit groove of drifting. We'll read great drifters like Whitman, Kerouac and Raban and we will write about and along the margins of our own lives. If we're lucky we'll find a fit with the culture and its webbed unconscious too. (About 100 words.)
BIO
Please include an 80-word bio paragraph and a 40-word bio (for the Web and catalog, respectively).
New to Hugo House? Please also include:
- a 500-word essay on your teaching philosophy, pasted below; and
- your artist resume, attached.
- Multi-week classes may be scheduled during these times: -Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, 4-6 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Saturdays 10 a.m. -12 p.m.
- One-day classes or weekend seminars are also possibilities. If you're proposing this type of class, please provide dates and times you're available to teach.
- All classes are held at Hugo House (unless offsite resources are an integral class component).
- Generally, class limits are set at 15. If fewer than five students register for a class, that class will be cancelled. If you prefer a different class size, please indicate the limit on your proposal.
- A pre-term teacher meeting will be scheduled the week before classes start.
Compensation
Teachers are compensated according to the number of students in their class.
Questions?
Contact Alix Wilber, program director.
