University Writing Program

Anne-Elizabeth Brodsky has taught in UWP since 2007 and is the associate director for curriculum. Her courses have centered around education, music, democracy, and imagination. Her BA is from Haverford College and her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, Teach the Nation: Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in US Women’s Writing of the 1890s, was published by Routledge in 2003.  

Prof Brodsky received a Teaching-as-Research Fellowship from the Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation in 2024. She was also an Engaged Scholar Faculty Fellow at the Center for Social Concern, collaborating with Baltimore Symphony OrchKids program in her Reintroduction to Writing course. She was a co-founder of the Common Question, member of the Cumming Scholars Steering Committee, co-chair of the Women Faculty Forum from 2016-19, and Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council member from 2010-16. She is faculty sponsor for the Johns Hopkins Tea Club and Operation SMILE, sometime violinist in the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, and proud parent of Baltimore City Public Schools alums. 

Before joining the faculty, Prof Brodsky worked at the JHU Center for Talented Youth, where she ran summer programs for academically talented students in grades 2-9 and oversaw curriculum development. She also taught at the City Colleges of Chicago (Truman and Olive-Harvey) and two Chicago high schools: Kenwood Academy/CPS and Ida Crown Jewish Academy. 

Murdy, Anne-Elizabeth. Teach the Nation: Pedagogies of Racial Uplift in US Women’s Writing of the 1890s. Routledge, 2003.

Brodsky, AEM. “Advising Graduate Students.” Innovative Instructor May 2019.

Brodsky, AEM.  “Texts of Engagement: Reading and Writing for Inclusivity in any Discipline.” Innovative Instructor March 2018.

Murdy, Anne-Elizabeth. “Public Education and the Properties of Young People,” The Review of Education/Pedagogy/ Cultural Studies, vol. 18, no. 4, 1996, pp. 397-410.

Murdy, Anne-Elizabeth. “Richard Middleton,” British Short Fiction Writers, 1880-1914: The Romantic Tradition, Dictionary of Literary Biography 156, 1996, pp. 225-231.

Murdy, Anne-Elizabeth, S. Mendel, and E. Freeman. “Teaching Outside the Curriculum,” Radical Teacher, vol. 45, Winter 1994, pp. 17-19.