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From URL to IRL: What Online Tools Do We Take Back into the Classroom?
Friday, March 25, 2022
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm
As the pandemic wanes, campuses and classrooms have reopened and our workshops can resume in person. What have we, as educators, discovered in the virtual classroom that can enhance our face-to-face instruction and build stronger creative communities? How can some of those resources and practices become part of our pedagogy's new normal?
Participants
Lise Funderburg is the author of the memoir Pig Candy and the oral history Black, White, Other. She was a fellow at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Thurber House, and MacDowell, and she teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Pennsylvania and in the MFA program at Rutgers-Camden.
Clifford Thompson is the author of Love for Sale and Other Essays, Twin of Blackness: A Memoir, and the novel Signifying Nothing. In 2013, he won a Whiting Writers' Award for nonfiction. He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, New York University, and Queens College.
Christy Davids is the author of Wanton, Dysphoric / Geography, and On Heat. She is a teacher and cocurates the Philly-based series Charmed Instruments. Some of her work can be found in VOLT, Openhouse, bedfellows, Jacket2, DUSIE, the Tiny, and the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books, among others.
Donna Masini's books include 4:30 Movie, Turning to Fiction, That Kind of Danger, and a novel, About Yvonne. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, APR, and Best American Poetry. She is professor of English/creative writing at Hunter College
Julia Bloch (MFA, PhD) is director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Pew Fellow and the author of three books of poetry, including Letters to Kelly Clarkson, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and is coeditor of the poetry and poetics journal Jacket2.
