On January 13, 2025, Neşe Devenot published an Open Peer Commentary in a special issue of The American Journal of Bioethics on the subject of Psychedelic Ethics. Devenot’s commentary is titled “Focused Bodywork as Facilitated Communication: Cautionary Perspectives on Touch in Psychedelic Therapy.” Citing the dangers of unacknowledged pseudoscience in Lykos Therapeutics’ MDMA-assisted therapy model, Devenot argues that psychedelic...

Join UWP Writer-In-Residence Suzanne Gold for a public reading and Hair Salon event at Bird in Hand on Thursday, Feb 6, at 6-8PM. Suzanne will read an essay-in-progress and then facilitate a community-led conversation swirling around the subject of hair in culture. Hair Salons traverse the many resonances that hair might have across creative practice, pop culture, literature,...

On December 17, 2024, the Modern Language Association, the flagship scholarly association for literatures and languages in the United States, awarded Laura Hartmann-Villalta (lecturer in the UWP) and Heidi Herr (librarian for English, philosophy, and special collections student engagement) a national teaching and publication award recognizing their collaboration and pedagogical innovation for the course entitled...

In this episode of The Career Adjunct podcast, host Iliana de Larkin speaks with lecturer Laura Hartmann-Villalta. Hartmann-Villalta shares how she pursued an English literature PhD to lend credibility to her dream of writing a meaningful book on Anglophone women’s literature and the Spanish Civil War, hoping it would also lead to a full-time academic position....

In late November members of the Heterodox Academy held a forum on free speech at Hopkins. UWP lecturer George Oppel interviewed sophomore and former UWP student Aneesh Swaminathan about his experience as president of the College Republicans and how that group had recently had a speaking event shut down by protestors. From there a lively...

UWP Senior Lecturer and Writing Center Associate Director for Campus & Community Outreach Nate Brown recently published a short story in the award-winning literary journal One Story. “The Sea of Cortés” is a speculative piece that imagines a world racked by the worst effects of global climate change, political instability, and economic inequality. The story was...

This year, we are excited to welcome Suzanne Gold as the UWP’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence. Suzanne is a multidisciplinary artist and experimental writer whose work pushes the boundaries of conventional storytelling, using the intersection of hair, art history, and narrative to explore identity, personal growth, and connectivity. As a queer interdisciplinary scholar, Suzanne’s work studies all...