<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Lee Foust</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:leefoust@gmail.com">leefoust@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 6:46 AM<br>Subject: The Sant'Anna Institute<br>To: <<a href="mailto:tom.lutz@ucr.edu">tom.lutz@ucr.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Dear Professor Lutz,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Hello, my name is Lee Foust and I teach at the Sant’Anna
Institute in Sorrento, Italy. I’m writing to you as your school annually sends
students to our study abroad program and I want to let you know that our institute
has a quality writing workshop and literature courses and to encourage you to
send us your creative writing and English majors. I want to make sure that you
know that, even though we’re situated in Italy, your students can continue
honing their English writing skills while studying abroad as well as take an
interesting in situ literature course—currently one on the figure of the
Neapolitan women from Susan Sontag’s Emma Hamilton to Elena Ferrante’s brilliant
friend. More advanced Italian students can also study Italian literature in the
original with our Prof. D. Polumbo<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">For young writers I believe the Sant’Anna Institute offers a
wonderful opportunity to benefit from several aspects of the study abroad
experience. With Naples only a short train ride away, both the best of European
urban culture as well as the gorgeous and tranquil setting of Sorrento is ideal
for cultural encounters as well as meditative work. For students of literature and
creative writing visiting sites described in Virgil’s <i>Aeneid</i>, Petronius’ <i>Satyricon</i>,
Italian novelists from Matilde Serao to Elena Ferrante, as well as so many
traveling writers, not to mention living in the city that gave birth to Epic
poet Torquato Tasso, can only inspire them to read the works of the past as
well as, hopefully, adding their own voice to the chorus.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">I’ll attach my two fall syllabi here for your perusal. As
you can see, the writing workshop is open to all levels (and to both poets and writers
in prose), but I know from experience that the mix of the beginner with the more
experienced writer is the ideal situation: the novice learns from and is
inspired by the pro, and the pro learns how to mentor and is refreshed by the
naïve and often more sincere feedback of the novice. The course is quite flexible,
leaving room for students to bring their own projects to the workshop or
allowing them to fall back on a series of writing exercises if they feel that
they need the discipline.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Send me your writers and students of literature—I look
forward to working with them. <span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Lee Foust,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Sant’Anna Institute<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Sorrento, Italy<span></span></p>
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