Support your growth as a writer by attending our campus workshops and events. Click on an event title to learn more and to register.
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- Sep 06
"The Profane Preacher and the Modern American Novel,"a Lecture by Steve Pinkerton
Throughout the twentieth century, American novelists of high literary ambition turned again and again to an elastic yet readily identifiable character type: the profane preacher. A man or…
- Sep 13
"Manifesting in the 19th Century: New Thought and the Emergence of Positive Thinking," a Lecture by Arielle Zibrak
New Thought was a nineteenth century secular spiritual practice that promised women across the country financial independence, sexual liberation, and a pathway to the realization of their…
- Sep 20
Beyond the 5-Paragraph Essay: WRC Workshop Series
This first workshop in our series for AIQS students will focus on why writers might use the 5-paragraph format and you can move beyond it in your academic writing.
- Oct 04
"One of a Living Crowd," a Lecture by Rachel Eisendrath
In this talk, I will discuss my experience working at the intersection of generic boundaries (specifically, literary-historical scholarship and personal essays), reflecting on why my current…
- Oct 11
Academic Audiences: WRC Workshop Series
This second workshop in our series for AIQS students will focus on how to write for academic audiences.
- Nov 01
Brainstorming: WRC Workshop Series
This third workshop in our series for AIQS students will focus on different brainstorming techniques and will help you to come up with a great topic for your next essay!
- Nov 01
“What Can Be Represented?” a Lecture by Sharon Holland
This talk pulls from some of the arguments of my most recent publication, an other: a black feminist consideration of animal life, and also attempts to think through my current project,…
- Nov 08
"Disability Poetics Before Disability Poetics?" a Lecture by Travis Chi Wing Lau
This talk puts into conversation contemporary disability theory with eighteenth-century poetry written by and about disabled people to consider how eighteenth-century writing theorized…
- Nov 22
AIQS Reflection: WRC Workshop Series
This final workshop in our series for AIQS students will focus on the importance of reflecting on your own writing and will prepare you to write your final Reflective Essay.
- Dec 04
Brainstorming: WRC Workshop Series
This third workshop in our series for AIQS students will focus on different brainstorming techniques and will help you to come up with a great topic for your next essay!