Join UWP in celebrating the book launch of Carly Schnitzler, and co-editors Annette Vee and Tim Laquintano’s edited collection on AI and other text generation technologies. A little about the collection: Generative AI is the most influential technology in writing in decades—nothing since the word processor has promised as much impact. Publicly-accessible Large Language Models...
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
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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. ...
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....
Senior Lecturer Nate Brown recently interviewed two novelists about their work. Writing for the Los Angeles Review of Books, his conversation with Baltimore-based novelist Barbara Bourland investigates the complexities of western princess narratives and the fundamental problems of life under capitalism, topics central to the author’s latest work, The Force of Such Beauty. In the...
