Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 (6-8PM) Glass Pavilion | JHU Homewood Campus The FLI Network, in partnership with the University Writing Program, the Writing Center, and JHU’s Common Question will host a book talk event with the award-winning essayist, playwright, and Baltimore native, R. Eric Thomas in the Glass Pavilion at Levering Hall. Please join us in welcoming him for an...
Brought to you by the University Writing Program, the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, the Center for Africana Studies, the Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-Racism, and Equity, the Medicine, Science and Humanities Major, and JHU’s Common Question, Dr. April Baker-Bell will visit Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, March 4th to deliver a talk called “Moving Beyond Disciplinary Silos: A Critical Call for...
From the Feminist Classroom, a new feature of the academic journal Feminist Modernist Studies, launched with the feature editor Laura Hartmann-Villalta, UWP lecturer, at its helm. In her introduction to the feature, titled “From My Feminist Classroom to Yours,” Hartmann-Villalta explained that the inspiration for this platform was to create a space for modernist studies academics...
On January 31, instructors from the UWP participated in the Second Annual National Advanced Writing Symposium hosted this year by the University of California-Santa Barbara. Presenting on a panel entitled, “Making Writing That Matters: Trends and Opportunities in Community-Engaged & Public Writing at Johns Hopkins University,” Jason Ludden, Nate Brown, Neşe Devenot, Arthur Russell, and...
UWP’s Laura Hartmann-Villalta has been chosen for Inaugural 2025 JOTA Scholar-Artist Residency. Laura Hartmann-Villalta is a feminist Latina whose academic scholarship focuses on visual Culture Studies, Women’s Studies, and early 20th century Anglophone Literature. Her research interests include interrogating dominant narratives of history from the viewpoints of those on the periphery. Fluent in Spanish with...
Thursday, Feb. 13th, 2 – 4 pm JHU Writing Center | Gilman Hall 230 In partnership with Writers’ Warehouse, JHU’s Common Question & the Writing Center invite you to join us for an afternoon of good food, good fun, and an exploration of romantic and celebratory writing. With live writing prompts and activities, we’ll help you...
On Thursday, January 30th from 2:30 – 4 pm in the Writing Center, Lenny Grant will offer an expressive writing workshop, using the research-based writing protocols he relies on in his Resilience Writing project. Students can register here: https://forms.office.com/r/cNQc8K1HHH. On Friday, January 31st at 5 pm in Gilman 50 (with reception to follow), is Rx: Conversations about Medicine and Writing, featuring Lenny...
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...
