News Archive

Donald Berger + The Strays (series)

UWP Lecturer Donald Berger

Please join UWP Lecturer Donald Berger, with Aeon Ginsberg and Steven Leyva, to celebrate this summer’s collective publication of their three chapbooks by Foundlings Press. When: Thursday, August 3 Time: 6 p.m. Location: Bird in Hand Bookstore – 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD 21218

Lisa Wright explores racism and sexism in writing centers

Lisa Wright

Lecturer Lisa E. Wright along with Dr. Anna Sicari and Claire Tower recently published “ Renewing Our Feminist Efforts through Love and Care: What Can Happen at the Center” in the January 2023 issue of College English. This article explores how a white feminist administrator came to recognize her own participation in racist practices and...

Teaching Fellow Richard Essam incorporates Appiah’s Macksey Lecturer to course; students interviewed in JHU Newsletter

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On March 9th, students in Richard Essam’s course “Reintroduction to Writing: Who Owns the Past?” attended a lecture by renowned philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, whose work on the topic they had read earlier in the semester. Two of Essam’s students in the course were interviewed by the JHU Newsletter and shared their thoughts on the...

AE Brodsky presents at Cosmic Visions Workshop – April 28, 2023 

Dr. AE Brodsky (UWP)

Anne-Elizabeth Brodsky discusses “Tiny Texts, Big Thinking, and the First-Year Classroom” as part of the Cosmic Visions Workshop 2: Exoplanets and Life at the Space Telescope Science Institute. 

UWP Faculty Presentations at DELTA Teaching Forum – May 1, 2023

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The DELTA Teaching Forum is a day of presentations, demonstrations, and networking opportunities devoted to the exploration of teaching innovation at Johns Hopkins University including the work of DELTA grant recipients. The symposium is intended to provoke conversation, spark new thinking, and advance the ongoing pursuit of teaching excellence. The keynote speakers are MacArthur Fellow Safiya Noble...

The Writing Center Presents a Reading Week Study Event

Join your friends at the Writing Center for The Long Night Against Procrastination! Get some serious studying done in a collaborative, supportive environment. Sign up to attend! Event limited to 25 students.

AI + Writing

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ChatGPT and other AI writing platforms are here, and higher education, like all sectors, must grapple with what these tools mean for how we do our work. The University Writing Program and the Writing Center are staying abreast of this conversation and sharing it with faculty and students across a number of contexts. We envision...

Birthing Justice Screening

Birthing Justice

We invite you to a screening and panel discussion of the documentary, Birthing Justice, on April 11, 2023, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. EDT in Mudd Hall at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus. The event will be followed by a reception in the Mudd Hall Atrium on the Homewood Campus. You may register for the event on Eventbrite.  ...

Responding to Student Writing: April Workshops

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UWP invites faculty and TAs at Homewood and Peabody to talk through the challenges of commenting on and grading student writing. We encourage you to bring what you’re working on in class right now–assignments you’re giving, student work you’ve received, and so on. Of course, please also bring your questions and concerns, big and small....

ChatGPT and Pizza — Feb. 23 11:30a.m.

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ChatGPT and College Students:  What does this mean for you? (and why are your professors so freaked out?) Join your peers for pizza! and a discussion of what ChatGPT means for higher education and you.   When:  Thursday, February 23 11:30a.m. – 1p.m. Where:  Writing Center, Gilman 230 ChatGPT has been all over the news of late.  Is...