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...
At the American Studies Association annual meeting this November, Nate Brown and Anne-Elizabeth Brodsky gave talks at “Power Tools and Wax Figures: Learning and Co-Teaching with Baltimore Communities,” a pair of sessions held, respectively, at Station North Tool Library and the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum. They joined CSC Engaged Scholar Faculty Fellow colleagues Victoria Harms (history),...
Lisa E. Wright recently published an article in Meridians Journal titled “According to the Record.” In this piece, Wright analyzes the penmanship on her grandmother’s birth certificate to question whether her great-grandmother gave birth to her Grandma Rickey in 1934 with a white doctor or with a midwife who may not have had a license. She explores...
The JHU MU PSI chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority held its 7th annual Leadership Brunch on Saturday, March 9, 2024. The theme was Social Action in Action. The University Writing Program’s Dr. Lisa E. Wright was nominated for and received the Faculty and Staff Leadership Award for her writing courses that center Black maternal health, her...
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...
Yuliia Lysanets, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages with Latin and Medical Terminology, Poltava State Medical University (Ukraine). In 2024-2025, she is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UWP, conducting a research project titled “The Features of U.S. Academic English: Comprehensive Guidelines for Ukrainian Healthcare Students and Researchers”. The project’s output (a published...
We are thrilled to share that Carly Schnitzler has published a new edition of TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments. In it, there are 15 open-access assignments that reinforce the humanity of writing, while experimenting with, challenging, and questioning LLMs (Large Language Models) as part of the writing process. Annette Vee and Schnitzler have an assignment in this...
UWP is excited to announce that Laura Hartmann-Villalta, in collaboration with Emily Bloom, has co-edited a feature titled “Precarity, Caregiving, and COVID,” now published by the journal Modernism/modernity as a Print+ feature. This publication, which began as an MLA 2021 roundtable, has been three years in the making and delves into timely and critical discussions....
