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The University Writing Program helps students become agile writers: people who understand writing as an intellectual practice and a way to make things happen in the world. We are committed to inclusive, creative pedagogy that supports students, colleagues, and our community partners in pursuit of lifelong writing practices. 

UWP’s Reintroduction to Writing classes are part of JHU’s First-year Foundation. They are the second step in a series of intimate courses that strengthen students’ university and community ties from their first moments on campus.  

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Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood: A Conversation at Modernist Studies Association

During the Modernist Studies Association conference, which had its annual meeting in Boston from October 9-12, 2025, Laura Hartmann-Villalta and writer Jamie Hood explored her newly published memoir, Trauma Plot. The conversation was sponsored by the Intersectional Queer & Feminist Praxis...

Mary Y. Yang, the UWP 2025-26 Writer in Residence

This year, we are excited to welcome Mary Y. Yang as the UWP’s second Writer-in-Residence. Yang’s expansive, interdisciplinary work examines the intersections of design with language, identity, diaspora, and cultural memory. She is the co-founder of Radical Characters, a study...