Neşe Devenot is the first author and lead architect of a book-length investigative report: “The Psychedelic Syndicate: How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry.” The report was coauthored by colleagues at the small psychedelic harm reduction nonprofit, Psymposia. Having begun as a response to retaliation against three of the authors’ FDA testimony about MDMA-assisted therapy,...
Codi Renee Blackmon served as a panelist for the Disability Studies Standing Group (DSSG) Fall 2025 Job Market Support Group panel on November 15, 2025. The session focused on demystifying the academic job search by inviting panelists to share personal experiences and strategies and to offer advice for early-career academics and graduate students with disabilities...
Don Berger and friends will be giving a poetry reading at Normals Bookshop (425 E 31st St, Baltimore, MD 21218) in Waverly on Saturday November 22 at 3pm, the last issue in a series started in 1988. Other readers will be the issue’s editor Terence Winch, Chris Mason, David Beaudouin, and Greg Delaney celebrating the final issue...
Don Berger is featured in a podcast produced last summer by Brad Listi for his series Otherppl. Check it out via the links below: Apple Podcasts Spotify Visit the podcast’s website at www.otherppl.com
On October 17 UWP Lecturer George Oppel was invited to participate in the Campus Discourse Project at the University of Virginia. Students were given a selection of topics and encouraged to “Disagree with a Professor” for 15 minutes before moving to another topic. Afterwards faculty members from across the country held a workshop in the...
Laura Hartmann-Villalta, a member of the inaugural cohort of the Jews of the Americas Artist-Scholar Residency Fellowship, led a workshop on artists’ books during the Fall 2025 in-person residency for the fellowship at Brandeis University. The theme of this year’s fellowship is Spine/Médula, with its dual significance as the encasement of the anatomical spinal cord...
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 Special Interest Group. Trauma Plot was a 2025 highly anticipated book by both Vogue and Vulture pre-publication and earned a...
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 group and curatorial project that researches and explores graphic design, typography, and culture through 汉字...
Marie Theresa O’Connor has published an essay in AI & Society entitled “AIs as fellow participants in the language game.” The essay argues that LLMs should be deemed to think, not because of anything that we know or believe about their nature, but because of how they use language.
Marie Theresa O’Connor, Associate Teaching Professor in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins University, will be presenting at the Digital Humanities Workshop on November 6 (noon-1:30pm) in the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute Common Room (Mergenthaler 429). She will discuss her research project, Preserving AI Voices, which collects and preserves screenshots of human/AI conversations. This work was...
