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Addressing Social Justice & Pedagogy from COVID-19 Talks at SFSU's MFA Program
Friday, March 25, 2022
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Four MFA students (and a faculty moderator) show how the pandemic impacted their experiences in school and inspired them to tackle issues of social justice and creative writing pedagogy. Students will address how the pandemic exacerbated social inequities on a student-run press, impacted international students' visas and travel, and inspired the formation of faculty/student working groups to advance anti-racist pedagogies for discussing the craft and context of diverse literature of the Americas.
Participants
Michael Lukas is the author of The Oracle of Stamboul and The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the Sophie Brody Medal, and the Sami Rohr Prize, he has received fellowships from the NEA and Bread Loaf. He teaches at San Francisco State University.
Sheila Bare holds an MA in English focusing on Asian American and American Literatures and is an MFA candidate at SFSU. Her work appears in Hay(na)Ku 15, Evidence of Fetus Diversity, and Sitting Room Anthology (2016), among others. She teaches writing in northern California.
Chino Scott-Chung is a trans Chinese/Mexican historical/creative non/fiction writer. Founder and fiction editor of The Asian and Pacific Islander Transmasculine Anthology, he is part of the Latinx Writers Caucus leadership team. His work appears in GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary.
TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter is a queer Black writer and former fiction editor for Fourteen Hills literary magazine. His work has been featured in Ramblr Magazine, TAYO magazine’s special issue SOFT, Transfer Magazine, bad egg magazine, Borderless Magazine, ANA Magazine, and Stellium magazine.
Hasti Jafari Jozani received a bachelor’s degree in dramatic literature at the University of Tehran. Hasti has written and directed several plays, one of which received a Marcus Recruitment Award, and started the graduate creative writing program at San Francisco State University in the spring of 2021.
