Wolcott-Bartlett Professor of Literature & Creative Writing; Director of the Program in Jurisprudence, Law, and Justice Studies, Hamilton College
Doran Larson is Wolcott-Bartlett Professor of Literature and Creative at Hamilton College. In 2006 his research moved to non-fiction prisoner writing as a result of running a writing workshop inside Attica Correctional Facility. He has since edited a volume of writing by incarcerated people, Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America, and a special issue, "The Beautiful Prison," of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. He directs the Mellon- and NEH-funded American Prison Writing Archive, a digital archive of non-fiction writing by incarcerated Americans writing about their experience inside. His MOOC, "Incarceration's Witnesses: American Prison Writing," is hosted by Edx. His monograph Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration, will appear in 2017.
Digital database captures voices from inside America's prisons
Jul 17, 2017 01:21 am UTC| Technology
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