During the 2025-26 school year, Emory Writing Program faculty shared pedagogical “micropractice” presentations during our monthly meetings. Faculty member Daniel Bosch first introduced the term, and shares a bit about its background here: The term “micropractices” comes to us via … Read More »
Scholars Aja Y. Martinez and Robert Owen Smith visited Atlanta to do a talk about their coauthored book, Harmony and Harassment: A New Critical Race Theory Story and celebrate the audiobook release of their coauthored book The Origins of … Read More »
First-Year Writing director Aaron Colton, Tutor & Developmental Editor Robert Birdwell, and Writing Across Emory director Vani Kannan led this workshop for students in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. Students requested a workshop focusing on writing-related anxiety and writers’ … Read More »
In this workshop, co-facilitated by members of the Georgia Asian American Community Archive Initiative (GAACAI), participants were invited to engage with zines as a creative teaching exercise for developing student engagement with primary sources and building archival literacy. The session … Read More »
Junior Delaney Yocom, an English major and Rhetoric, Writing, and Information Design (RWID) minor, spent the summer interning with Southern Crossroads through a RWID Summer Internship. Associate Teaching Professor and WAE Director Vani Kannan, who served as Yocom’s internship mentor, … Read More »
Emory’s Center for Faculty Development and Excellence (CFDE) offers Academic Learning Communities (ALCs) each semester. ALCs are designed to provide opportunities for faculty to discuss topics related to our research, teaching, and intellectual lives. In Spring 2025, WAE Director Vani … Read More »
This workshop encouraged participants to draw from the rich writers’ legacies housed in the Spelman College Archives. Participants engaged in an archival scavenger hunt as a method to engage with the primary source documents of Audre Lorde and Toni Cade … Read More »
The latest in WAE’s audio workshops, Sound Editing 101 introduced faculty, staff, and students to the open source software Audacity and creative commons licensed sounds. This workshop was a follow-up to the October 8, 2024 workshop on Continuing Communication assignments that … Read More »
Cosponsored with the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, Department of English, Department of Music, and a Hightower Fund award Dr. Craig is an award-winning author, educator and DJ whose career meshes his love of writing, teaching, and music. His … Read More »
This event, featuring Dr. Shivani A. Patel and Dr. Ishanika Sharma and held in collaboration with Rollins School of Public Health, took place on December 3, 2024, as part of a global week of action to commemorate the 40th anniversary … Read More »