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Janet Kauffman is a novelist, poet, and mixed media artist. She has taught in the English department at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) in Ypsilanti, Michigan since 1988. She received her PhD from University of Chicago in 1972. Dr. Kauffman was instrumental in establishing EMU's Creative Writing Master's degree program, which has received national attention through its unconventional approach to writing. In her classes, Ms. Kauffman challenges her students to re-think the definition of "book" and ways in which to use text to communicate ideas. Her unusual approach to Imaginative Writing includes creating deformed books, using found objects married to original or "borrowed" text, creative alphabets, and engineered books. Dr. Kauffman has been the recipient of numerous awards, including:
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