Columbia College Chicago

Columbia College Chicago is the institutional setting for Audrey Niffenegger’s teaching in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program. The book’s closing biographical note associates the college with her work in writing, letterpress printing, and fine-edition book production, placing it within the account of her practice as both visual artist and author.

Program and Teaching

Niffenegger teaches in the Interdisciplinary Book Arts MFA Program at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. The note names three areas of instruction—writing, letterpress printing, and fine-edition book production—bringing literary composition together with print and bookmaking practices.

Place in the Author’s Work

The college appears in the biographical material at the end of The Time Traveler’s Wife, rather than as a location in the novel’s fictional events. Its mention situates Niffenegger’s teaching alongside her work as a visual artist, whose artwork is shown at Printworks Gallery in Chicago, and her debut as a novelist. The institutional detail therefore presents book arts not simply as a teaching subject but as part of the professional context surrounding the novel’s author.