A Word From The Writing Team (September 2018)

This issue includes: Boost Your Communication Skills with Nature Win a Prize for Writing About Health Car

Need for Advancing Underrepresented Minorities in the Health Sciences and Medicine

This manuscript introduces the abstracts from the Stanford Coordinating Center

A Word From The Writing Team (January 2019)

This issue includes: Grammarly Tips Expanded NVivo Access Upcoming Workshop

A Word From The Writing Team (March 2019)

This issue includes: Key to Great Writing: Rewriting 3-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) Upcoming Workshop

A Word From The Writing Team (October 2018)

This issue includes: Writing Lessons from Ted-Ed WHYY\u27s Maiken Scott on Communicating Science Paywall: The Business of Scholarshi

A Word From The Writing Team (July 2018)

This issue includes: From Thesis to Journal Article Open All Summer Sign Up for Our Fall Writing Retreat Writing Caf

A Word From The Writing Team (November 2018)

This issue includes: New! Open Access Funds Available January Writing Retreat A Thanksgiving Though

Fall 2015 Visiting Researchers and Artists Series

The New Media Department and Intermedia MFA Program are requesting funding to help support a fall lecture series. The following visiting researchers and artists will share their expertise in the following areas: an evening lecture with a question and answer period to follow, classroom visits, direct one-on-one student meetings and/or critiques and performances or other public presentations. The artists have been selected because of the quality and engaging nature of their work. The artists\u27 desire to interact with the students in a learning environment and to engender excitement about the arts on campus was another qualifying factor in their selection

No Invented Mystery

This collection of poems is comprised of many recollected experiences that are personally revealing about me, both as poet and person. I often explore the dynamics of domesticity between queer men and detail the dissolution of coming together with another. Laughter as a means of subverting or avoiding trauma is a theme that runs throughout my thesis. It is intended to be read like one might view a mosaic. The narrative threads tie together by its end to tell a story that speaks to a sense of abjection and otherness many of us carry. To temper the intensity of the personal pieces , there are poems that focus more simply on place, on the physical world around us and its function in human growth

What Does White Supremacy Look Like Today?

The introductory slides provide a framing definition: “White supremacy is believing not only that white people are superior based on their skin color, but that they have the right to rule over other people.” Additional concepts that help frame the presentation include “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy,” “racialization,” and “colonial ideology.” The presentation then provides an overview of U.S. legal and penal statutes, starting in 18th century Massachusetts, moving through 18th and 19th century federal “fugitive slave” laws, the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of Jim Crow, the 20th century militarization of police force, and the discrepancy between crack and powder cocaine sentencing. This overview is not meant as a complete review, but as a testament to the idea that ideology inculcates policy, such that intentional racism gives way to comprehensive and structural racism. The focus then turns to literary examples of what has been construed as white supremacist ideology, highlighting both a tradition of intraracial “colorism,” and further illustrated by examples from contemporary poetry and poetics, including discourse about a poem by Tony Hoagland, Kenneth Goldsmith’s “performance” of Michael Brown’s autopsy, and Vanessa Place’s verbatim tweeting of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind