Trumbull College Writing Tutor
Adam Reid Sexton
adam.sexton@yale.edu
Adam Reid Sexton is the Trumbull College Writing Tutor. Adam teaches three courses in the English department (The Craft of Fiction, Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, and Writing About Music) and is a Critic in the graduate School of Art. During summer 2022 he taught Writing About Music for Yale in London. Adam is also a writer; his next book, Difficult Listening, is due to be published soon.
To meet with Adam, please reserve a half-hour by logging on to https://www.yalewco.com/index.php, and be sure to email him the document you want help with by 7 am on the day of your appointment. Include the instructor’s prompt, your focus for the meeting, and when the paper is due. Adam looks forward to working with you!
Adam Sexton is a Senior Lecturer and Course Director in the English Department, where in 2026 he was awarded the Fred Strebeigh and Linda Peterson Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Instructional Faculty. He has taught for Yale in London and the Yale Writers’ Workshop and has been a Critic in the School of Art. Since 2014 he has been the Trumbull College Writing Tutor. Adam’s writing has been published in the Baltimore Sun, the Boston Phoenix, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and other publications, and his books include Hang Us in the Louvre: How Rock Became Art (forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2027) and Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway, and Other Greats (McGraw-Hill, 2005). With a team of visual artists, he adapted four of Shakespeare’s tragedies as manga (Japanese-style graphic novels), and his anthology Rap on Rap was acquired by Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research. Adam has taught writing and literature at Columbia, NYU, Rutgers, and Parsons School of Design. He holds a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. in Writing from Columbia University
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