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. ...
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...
Lecturer Lisa E. Wright along with Oklahoma State University Writing Center Director Anna Sicari reviewed Laura Greenfield’s text Radical Writing Center Praxis: A Paradigm for Ethical Political Engagement. Together they converse about Greenfield’s theories and models that call writing center tutors and directors to be committed to social justice and antiracist work. After implementing some...
In this half-hour podcast episode, Hartmann-Villalta shares her experiences as a part-time adjunct instructor at Georgetown University, discussing the precarity and fraught conditions of adjunct labor more broadly, and connecting these to her work serving on MLA’s Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession. She also explains how her research on the Spanish Civil War finds...
