Feminism Through Time: Writing about Historical Movements using Oral History Interviews

April 18, 2018 Admin

**Photograph via The Hollywood Reporter**

In this post, OHMA student Samantha Lombard (2018) reflects on Jennifer Egan’s Workshop, Jennifer Egan: The Novelist As Oral Historian, in which she discussed, among other topics, the challenges of writing about feminism from a historical perspective using oral history interviews.

How can collective memory documented with oral history be the raw material for artistic production?

February 23, 2018 Admin

In this post, OHMA student Yameng Xia (2017) considers Jennifer Egan’s work Manhattan Beach and the interviews Egan conducted for the book. Jennifer Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer and she came to Columbia University to give a public interview on how she used an oral history approach to get raw material for her new novel, Manhattan Beach.

From James Michener to Jennifer Egan: The Evolving Use of Oral History in Writing Fiction

February 18, 2018 Admin

In this post, OHMA student Filip Mazurczak compares the methods of research used by Jennifer Egan and James Michener in writing historical fiction.