F238. I'm Unprepared: Navigating Trauma in Writing Classrooms

E146, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Friday, March 29, 2019
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm

 

In the age of “trigger warnings” and #MeToo classrooms are frequently spaces that hold acknowledged and unacknowledged trauma. This reality can leave educators at a loss for how to identify and manage behaviors related to and masking trauma. This panel will provide tools for how to support both students and colleagues through these challenges in the writing classroom.


Participants

Moderator:

Rachel M. Simon is the author of the poetry collection Theory of Orange and the chapbook Marginal Road. She works as the Associate Director of Multicultural Affairs and LGBTQQ Coordinator at Pace University. She teaches college courses at Bedford Hills Women's Prison and SUNY Purchase College.

Olivia Worden holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She has taught writing and diversity workshops at Roger Williams University, Sarah Lawrence College, Andrus, Westchester County Correctional Facility, and Pace University. She is the Director of the Social Justice Intensive at SLC.

Adam Falkner is the author of Adoption (Winner of the 2018 Diode Editions Chapbook Award), and the Founder and Executive Director of the Dialogue Arts Project. He is an Arthur Zankel Fellow and PhD candidate in the English Education program at Columbia University.

Juan J. Morales is the author of three poetry collections including The Handyman's Guide to End Times. He is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Macondista, the Editor of Pilgrimage Magazine, and the Chair of English and World Languages at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

Arhm Choi Wild is a Kundiman fellow and holds a MFA from Sarah Lawrence. She has been published in the anthology Daring to Repair, as well as with Barrow Street, Split this Rock, Scholars & Rogues, and Two Hawks Quarterly, among other places. She currently teaches in NYC.

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