S135.
Innovations in Social & Community-Based Creative Pedagogies & Curriculum
Saturday, March 26, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
The Central Brooklyn Oral History and Atlas project is a college-wide research project at Medgar Evers College in New York City that engages students, faculty, and local community residents on the collecting, archiving, and exhibition of oral histories from the area. College faculty on this panel will share and discuss how innovative creative writing pedagogy and curriculum and social and community-based art practices based on oral histories can be used to make the classroom more inclusive.
Participants
Darrel Alejandro Holnes is the author of Stepmotherland and Migrant Psalms; his poetry has appeared in Poetry Magazine, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize and others. He is an assistant professor for CUNY, and he teaches at New York University.
Joanna Sit was born in China and grew up in New York City. She is the author of My Last Century, In Thailand with the Apostles, and most recently, Track Works. She teaches creative writing at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York.
Donna Hill has more than seventy titles in print. She has won numerous awards for her body of work. Three of her novels were adapted for television. She holds an MFA in creative writing and is an assistant professor of professional writing at Medgar Evers College.
