Lisa E. Wright’s chapter “Stay Alive: A Black Mother’s Responsibility to Ride Grief’s Hills and Live” was recently published in the collection Parenting While PhDing: Surviving and Improving the Working Conditions of Graduate Student Parents. The chapters in the collection offer valuable advice and strategies to graduate students and administrators from various backgrounds to assist them with...
The University Writing Program (UWP) is continuing its partnership with the Center for Social Concern (CSC) through the 2025-26 Engaged Scholar Faculty Fellows program. Now in its third year, this pilot initiative supports UWP faculty members as they work collaboratively with community partners to enhance student learning. This year’s cohort includes Carly Schnitzler, Jason Ludden,...
Neşe Devenot participated in a Delphi consensus study to determine reporting guidelines for environmental (or “extra-pharmacological”) factors in psychedelic research settings. Devenot was one of 89 experts from 17 countries who participated in the iterative process. The study produced the Reporting of Setting in Psychedelic Clinical Trials (ReSPCT) guidelines. According to the resulting paper, “Their...
Neşe Devenot’s critique of MAPS/Lykos’ MDMA-assisted therapy has been the subject of media attention over the past year, most recently in a July article in Wired Magazine. After Devenot published an Open Peer Commentary on this critique in January 2025, The American Journal of Bioethics(AJOB) received a request for corrections by therapist Veronika Gold, who characterized Devenot’s commentary as...
Expressive Networks convenes an urgent conversation on digital media and the social life of contemporary poetry. Tracing how poems circulate through online spaces and how capitalized platforms have come to pattern the reading and writing of poetry, contributors emphasize both the expressivist cast of digital literary culture and the deep-running ambivalence that characterizes aesthetic and critical...
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...
