F131. Shape-Shifting and Writers' Centers

Room 204C, Washington Convention Center, Level Two
Friday, February 10, 2017
9:00 am to 10:15 am

 

What are the visible and invisible effects of bringing creative writing and academic writing into the same physical space, thus emphasizing that writing practice is by no means a second-tier academic discipline? With growing interest in crossing boundaries—both inside and outside of the academy—university administrators, writers, and writing teachers would do well to rethink the way writing centers and writing programs are framed and situated within institutions.


Participants

Moderator:

Heidi Stalla is a creative nonfiction writer, a Virginia Woolf scholar, and she develops innovative writing pedagogy across writing genres. She is assistant professor of humanities and associate director of the writing program at Yale-NUS College, and she previously taught at NYU and NYU Abu Dhabi.

Marion Wrenn is coeditor of Painted Bride Quarterly. She has taught writing at NYU, Princeton University, and currently she directs the writing program for NYU in Abu Dhabi. Her essays have appeared in Poetics, South Loop Review, and APR.

Kristin Dombek is the author of The Selfishness of Others. Her essays can be found in n+1, the Paris Review, Harper's, the Painted Bride Quarterly, the New York Times Magazine, Vice, the London Review of Books, and Best American Essays. She teaches in the Princeton Writing Program.

Nicole Callihan

Kathleen Volk Miller

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