The novelist Jane Smiley did not foresee working as a professor again after she retired from the English faculty of Iowa State University in 1996. But the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, the academic farce Moo, and other books will become a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside on July 1.
The student demographics and the design of Riverside’s creative-writing program attracted her to the job, she said in an email.
“Diverse students have diverse points of view, and write diverse stories. A program like the one at Riverside gives a voice to any student who wants one,” she wrote. Ms. Smiley, who is 64, says she has always favored teaching at public universities because they “cast the widest net.”
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