UWMadison - Center for Teaching and Research on Writing

Hello, Folks,

Please join us for the Center for Teaching and Research on Writing's (CTRW) Open House event on September 14 from 4-5:30pm CDT in Helen C. White Hall 6191! We are meeting in person for food and drink as we welcome everyone back to the academic year by celebrating the CTRW’s first birthday and kicking off its second year. We will begin with opening remarks from the director of the CTRW, Michael Bernard-Donals, who will update us on the state of the CTRW, the work that was completed over the summer, and preview the upcoming events throughout the 2023-24 academic year. Come for the updates and stay for the conversation and food.

Please feel free to circulate this invitation to any instructional staff and graduate students with an interest in writing. We hope that you join us for the first of our many events this year!

Please join us on September 21 from 4-5:30pm CDT in Humanities 1131 for a guest lecture from Debra Hawhee, McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation at Penn State University. Dr. Hawhee studies and teaches rhetoric, the art of communication, and writes histories of rhetorical theory that draw out rhetoric’s other-than-rational dimensions — feeling, bodies, sensation, imagination. The talk titled “What do we do with Feeling?” considers the work that feeling is currently doing in rhetoric and in the critical humanities more broadly and asks what else might be done with this deliberately amorphous category. Examples from contemporary climate art and from congressional testimony of youth climate activists help Hawhee theorize how something like rhetorical mood works alongside—and helps to clarify—other conceptual approaches to feeling such as affect, sensation, the visceral.










Photo Source: Department of English in The Pennsylvania State University website