We are thrilled to release our first Virtual AWP Pedagogy discussion of 2023, featuring professors and authors Kevin Clouther, Ambereen Dadabhoy, Annabel Lyon, and John Vigna. Tune in to this lively discussion to learn various strategies for handling content warnings in the classroom, including how to adapt to different courses and how to integrate student feedback.

The premiere of this Virtual AWP event will also include a live Q&A on YouTube on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. ET. Register online to receive a reminder and a direct link to this free event and updates on future events. Registration is free, and you do not have to be a member of AWP to do so. However, to participate in the live Q&A, you must be signed in on YouTube.

Participant Bios:

Kevin Clouther is the author of We Were Flying to Chicago: Stories (Catapult). His stories have appeared in Confrontation, Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Joyland, and Ruminate among other journals. He holds degrees from the University of Virginia and Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the recipient of the Richard Yates Fiction Award and Gell Residency Award. He is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha Writer’s Workshop, where he directs the MFA in Writing. His second story collection is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in November 2023.

Ambereen Dadabhoy is an associate professor of literature at Harvey Mudd College. Her research focuses on cross-cultural encounters in the early modern Mediterranean and race and religion in early modern English drama. She investigates the various discourses that construct and reinforce human difference and in how they are mobilized in the global imperial projects that characterize much of the early modern period. Ambereen is co-author with Dr. Nedda Mehdizadeh of Anti-Racist Shakespeare (Cambridge Elements 2023). Currently, she is working on Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds, a book that investigates the scarcity of Muslim representation in Shakespeare's works, despite their ubiquitous presence in his preferred setting of the Mediterranean Sea.

Annabel Lyon (she/her) is the author of eight books of fiction and nonfiction for adults and children, most recently the novel Consent (Penguin Random House of Canada, 2020). She is the director of the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

John Vigna's first book of fiction, Bull Head, was published to critical acclaim in Canada and the US in 2012, and in France by Éditions Albin Michel in 2017. His novel, No Man's Land, was published in Fall 2021. He is an associate professor of teaching and pedagogy chair at the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where his focus is on pedagogical and curricular strategies for 5,500 Creative Writing students across the MFA, BFA major, and undergraduate minor programs.