R123. The Body in Words: Teaching Creative Techniques in Sound Symbolism, Sexuality, Silences, and the Feminist Working Class

Room 102A, Washington Convention Center, Level One
Thursday, February 9, 2017
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

How do sounds, sexes, silences, and class structures play out in creative making? This multimedia presentation probes into the embodied dynamics that inform not only workshop practices, but also how students take up multiple genres and make sense of creative processes. Questions about race, gender, class, and language and how the body is constructed make for persuasive techniques, asking participants to engage in craft as contributing to social meaning-making and alternative knowledges.


Participants

Moderator:

Michelle C. Wright is PhD student in English studies, specializing in creative writing and women’s and gender studies at Illinois State. Her published creative works include My Whole, In Tune Out, and Laundry Tub Love. She served as an editor for Euphemism and judge for national poetry competitions.

Laurel L. Perez is a PhD student at Illinois State University with a specialization in poetry, teaches composition there and at Lincoln College. Perez is the outreach coordinator for the writing program at ISU, codirector of the Illinois writing project, and editor for Downstate Legacies Publishing.

Jillian Merrifield is a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant at Illinois State University with a specialization in fiction writing.

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