On Friday 11th April the newly formed Hopkins Political Union held their second debate in Gilman Hall. Sponsored by the Agora Institute and the Heterodox Academy, the topics of the evening centered on health care and abortion. College Democrats and Republicans gave opening remarks before the 35 attendees joined the discussion. The Town Hall style conversation...
In 2023, directors and JHU Film & Media Studies Faculty Marly Hernández Cortés and Stephen Schuyler shot their debut feature film, Stealing Cars, in Baltimore with a small production team which included UWP Senior Lecturer Nate Brown. Previously, Hernández Cortés and Schuyler, the married filmmakers behind Filmico Pastiche, wrote, shot, and produced a series of documentary shorts introducing the...
The University Writing Program will be presenting at this week’s Conference on College Composition & Communication, which is taking place at the Baltimore Convention Center according to the CCCC schedule. Thursday 4/10 Carly Schnitzler “Perception and Uptake of AI in Workplace, Educational, and Creative Contexts—and Implications for Writing Programs” 10:30am – 11:45am Meeting Room 338...
Carly Schnitzler and her collaborators (Katy Ilonka Gero, Meera Desai, Nayun Eom, Jack Cushman, and Elena L. Glassman) received a Best Paper Award at CHI 2025 for their paper, “Creative Writers’ Attitudes on Writing as Training Data for Large Language Models.” This means it was in the top 1% of submissions. The paper will be...
First year student, Travis Thai Pham, participated in the Fall 2024 section of Reintro to Writing: Lost Baltimore. On top of all his coursework, Pham expanded on two of his writing and research projects from the course and submitted them for publication. As a result, Pham now has two publications in undergraduate journals! Check out...
This spring, UWP Senior Lecturer Nate Brown was named one of the Gilman School’s A.J. Downs Visiting Writers. The Gilman School is a pre-kindergarten through 12th grade independent school founded in 1897. Located in Baltimore City, the Gilman School was the first country day school in the United States and is home to both the Reginald...
Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 (6-8PM) Glass Pavilion | JHU Homewood Campus The FLI Network, in partnership with the University Writing Program, the Writing Center, and JHU’s Common Question will host a book talk event with the award-winning essayist, playwright, and Baltimore native, R. Eric Thomas in the Glass Pavilion at Levering Hall. Please join us in welcoming him for an...
Brought to you by the University Writing Program, the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, the Center for Africana Studies, the Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Equity, the Medicine, Science and Humanities Major, and JHU’s Common Question, Dr. April Baker-Bell will visit Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, March 4th to deliver a talk called “Moving Beyond Disciplinary Silos: A Critical Call for...
From the Feminist Classroom, a new feature of the academic journal Feminist Modernist Studies, launched with the feature editor Laura Hartmann-Villalta, UWP lecturer, at its helm. In her introduction to the feature, titled “From My Feminist Classroom to Yours,” Hartmann-Villalta explained that the inspiration for this platform was to create a space for modernist studies academics...
On January 31, instructors from the UWP participated in the Second Annual National Advanced Writing Symposium hosted this year by the University of California-Santa Barbara. Presenting on a panel entitled, “Making Writing That Matters: Trends and Opportunities in Community-Engaged & Public Writing at Johns Hopkins University,” Jason Ludden, Nate Brown, Neşe Devenot, Arthur Russell, and...
