Funded Projects
| Project Title | Overview of the Project |
|---|---|
| Attending 2016 AWP Writers Conference and Bookfair $1880.00 |
I am requesting a grant to fund my trip to the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Los Angeles. The conference, which runs from March 30 – April 2, 2016, will further my professional development in two key ways: through presentation of my recently published novel Mesilla, and attendance at four key panels that will facilitate both my pedagogical and creative endeavors. The primary objective for my pedagogical endeavors will be to gain training and insight in inclusivity practices in publishing. Attendance at the AWP conference will further my creative endeavors by allowing me to network with authors and publishers, take part in craft lectures, and attend panels that will deeply broaden my own knowledge of themes and arguments present in my work. |
| Writing Strategies for Action: The 2016 Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Julie Steiff Architecture and Urban Planning $1337.00 |
I am requesting funds to attend the 2016 Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Houston, Texas, from April 6-9. Having spent the last nine years as the only writing instructor in the Urban and Regional Planning program at Taubman College, I have received a rich education in the interdisciplinary field of planning and learned a great deal about the many kinds of writing planners do; however, I have become fairly isolated from my fellow teachers of writing. If I am to keep improving my teaching in the MUP program, I need to seek out opportunities to remain engaged with composition studies and keep abreast of developments in writing pedagogy and theory. That is why I would like to attend the 2016 CCCC Annual Convention, the most important national conference in the field. This year's theme, "Writing Strategies for Action," is especially relevant to writing instruction for planners, who write to make something happen in the world. I propose to renew, enrich, and reflect upon my teaching by attending sessions in the following areas: writing pedagogy and processes, professional and technical writing, second language writing/writers, and theories of pedagogy and writing in society. |
| Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2016 Conference: Enhancing Antimicrobial Stewardship Education Payal Patel Medical School $2000.00 |
This proposed grant seeks funding to support attendance to The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Annual Meeting in May 2016. The SHEA meeting is a national meeting dedicated to infectious disease physicians, pharmacists and infection preventionists that focuses on infection control, hospital epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship. The Centers for Disease Control and SHEA co-direct a course during this meeting that is used as unique training for new hospital epidemiologists and also an antimicrobial stewardship track. SHEA is the only national meeting in which this kind of course is offered. As a junior faculty interested in antimicrobial stewardship and infection control, I intend to attend this course to reinforce the principles of building a robust antimicrobial stewardship program. I would also plan to use the daily poster abstract sessions and networking sessions to meet other leaders in the field to foster network growth and also possible future collaborations. Attending this course will benefit my research and clinical career as a young investigator at the University of Michigan. The stewardship principles I learn will be shared with my colleagues in the Infectious Disease division at University of Michigan with the intent of reducing health care costs, limiting the emergence and transmission of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and improving quality of patient care. |
| Humanize the Numbers Isaac Wingfield LSA - Residential College $1996.18 |
This project supports creative endeavors in a collaborative prison arts project I am leading with incarcerated individuals at Thumb Correctional Facility. A series of photographs will be made with these incarcerated collaborators as part of a larger cross-disciplinary collaboration I am co-organizing titled Humanize the Numbers. I am seeking funding to support alternative programming and public displays to accompany an exhibition of this work in the Residential College Art Gallery, planned for Winter 2016. Support from the Lecturers' Professional Development Fund will allow me to produce alternative exhibition materials for these public spaces and provide curatorial support for the alternative exhibition and programming. This material for alternative venues—large scale banners with images and information— will become the core of a traveling public exhibition, building partnerships with community organizations, public schools, and other universities in the region for my current and future research. |
| Creating a More Accessible Classroom By Teaching About Accessibility $1870.00 |
Creating a More Accessible Classroom By Teaching About Accessibility This project is intended to improve the pedagogy of my courses by learning more about Accessible Design and then passing that knowledge on to students in my undergraduate and graduate Web Design courses. In the past few years I have placed a great deal of emphasis on the important of designing with accessibility in mind. Unfortunately, many people equate "flashy" with "employable." But in reality, this is not the case and what students should focus on is the basic tenants of design not trends. Still, some students find it hard to reconcile these competing ideas. This workshop will supply me with the additional knowledge I need to demonstrate to the students that accessibility is not only the right thing to do, but also professionally and legally advantageous. The Web Accessibility Training Workshop is offered by the Center for Persons with Disabilities at Utah State University. This two-day training seminar covers topics from basic web accessibility principles to advanced accessibility techniques. It also covers legal guidelines and standards for ensuring that websites are compliant. The information and techniques I will will enhance my own teaching, as well as better impress upon my students the importance of designing for wide audiences. |
| Beekeeping Research and Training in Germany Andrew Mills LSA $2000.00 |
I am requesting funding to support a month-long beekeeping research and training trip through Germany in the summer of 2016. I propose to visit a range of beekeeping organizations over a four-week period, each located in a different geographical region and setting. The types of organizations would consist of honey bee research institutes at German universities, commercial apiaries, honey bee outreach programs that seek to educate the public about the importance of honey bees, and urban beekeepers who are promoting beekeeping in cityscapes. At each location I visit, I will meet with my beekeeping hosts and carry out an array of activities that will be diverse in nature, depending upon the host. These activities range from dialogue and interviews to visiting and photographing bee hives and apiaries, to observing and working with beekeepers as they tend to their hives or promote their educational programs. I will also attend workshops and events sponsored by the organizations. These include, for example, outreach events and beekeeping training sessions and field trips offered by apiaries and bee research institutes. |
| Attendance at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting Susan Crabb Social Work $1960.00 |
I would like to attend the Gerontologcial Society of America's Annual Scientific Conference Nov. 18 – 22, 2015. I've been assigned to coordinate the MSW Social Work Interns for the Geriatric Scholar program, part of the Master of Social Work program in the School of Social Work. The Geriatric Scholar Program at the School was begun through a grant from the John A. Harford Foundation in 1999 to increase the number of social work students in the gerontology and provide them with specific internship rotations, a specialized seminar and stipends to its participants. It is my job to place the students in field internship rotations, including one term (minimum) in Detroit/Wayne County and a second placement in another aging organization. This is a variation of what most students in our program complete. As a member of the Office of Field Instruction we have conversations about the future of field, job selections, and the clinical and macro components of the work. Being current in Gerontology is going to be important as I take on this new responsibility. see more in protect objectives |
| Intensive Quechua Course in Cusco, Peru Tatiana Calixto LSA - Romance Languages and Literatures $2000.00 |
I am applying for this grant in order to take an intensive Quechua summer course in Cusco, Peru in 2016. This grant will allow me to take a 7-week Quechua course in an accredited institution in Cusco, and live with a Quechua speaking family. The program includes 104 contact hours, additional afternoon workshops, and extra out-of-classroom activities. My continuing professional development is focused on the cultures of the Andean Region. Besides my Spanish 232 Special Topics Course: "A Museum of the Andean Region", with the support of CGIS, I coordinate and lead an apprenticeship-service program in which a selected group of U-M students and I immerse in a rural community in Cusco. We become apprentices of the art of weaving, and gain understanding of the Quechua culture. Nevertheless, due to my limited Quechua, I am missing out precious opportunities, and I want to have a more connected and in-depth experience of the culture I am excited to take Quechua in Cusco, to be dedicated to learning the language, and to practice it intentionally. Language competency will allow me to get closer to a meaningful and more wholesome literacy of the culture and traditional practices. This will help me enrich my course, and be a better support and resource for my students on site. As a language instructor, one of my missions is to inspire respect for other cultures and ways of being. Learning Quechua is for me an important way to show respect to my host culture. |
| Attendance at 2016 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Robin Fowler Engineering - Technical Communication $1659.00 |
I am requesting funds to support my participation in and travel to the 2016 annual conference of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) in New Orleans, Louisiana (June 26-29, 2016). This conference is held every June, and it's the largest national conference focused on engineering education. I am a member of special interest groups focused on liberal arts in engineering and first-year programs, and I would anticipate attending sessions that focus on teaching technical communication and on first-year problem-based learning (and related topics, such as forming/facilitating student teams, improving climate, etc.) I am planning to submit an abstract to present at the conference as well, and I anticipate that I will be presenting on my 2015-2016 ISL project (on optimal team formation), and maybe with colleagues on the UM technical communication curriculum. Because the deadline for abstracts is not until October, I will not know by this grant's deadline whether or not my abstract(s) and paper(s) have been accepted. |
| Self[ie] Awareness: A Resource for Faculty and Students to Practice Character Presentation through the Selfie Simone Sessolo LSA - Sweetland Center for Writing $670.00 |
At the Sweetland Center for Writing I teach classes that focus on new media. Some of the classes I teach are: The Rhetoric of Blogging, The Rhetoric of Memes, Writing for Social Media, and Ethos and New Media. While I am very confident in the rhetorical content that I teach, I believe that developing my knowledge of web publishing and of coding languages such as html and css will help me become a better teacher in digital composition. For this reason, I'm applying for the Lectures' Professional Development Fund to be able to hire a graduate student from the School of Information who's familiar with coding. I am in touch with Professor Erik Hofer from UMSI, and I will ask his advice in the hiring process. The student's help is necessary for me to transition a webtext I developed with my undergraduate students in one of my classes from WIX (a commercial social platform) to a non-proprietary platform. Working with a graduate student who's expert in coding will provide me with the opportunity to learn the basics of coding, so that I can develop and enhance my expertise in new media. |
| Application for Grant to Attend the annual ASEE Conference and Exposition Amy Hortop Engineering - Integrative Systems & Design $2000.00 |
I am applying for professional development funding to be able to attend the annual ASEE Conference and Exposition June26-June29, 2016. The ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition is a conference dedicated to engineering education. Attending this conference will help me to stay current in engineering education, and spark lots of new ideas for teaching design methods and tools in the classroom, and give me an opportunity to network with faculty that teach similar classes from other schools and exchange ideas. As the course coordinator and an instructor of the capstone design course in mechanical engineering and a lecturer for the first-year course ENGR 100, I would be grateful for an opportunity to attend the annual conference to exchange ideas with peers. Specifically, I would hope to use the conference to (1) network with other faculty to look for opportunities to start multidisciplinary, distributed teams that could collaborate on engineering projects in first-year design courses and capstone engineering courses, (2) return to campus with more ideas on how to make larger lectures more interactive and engaging for students, (3) attend sessions specific to design in engineering curriculum and student safety while working on engineering projects. |
| smithsonian museum of african american history: research and interviews Craig Wilkins Architecture and Urban Planning $2000.00 |
From Benjamin Banneker, who worked with architect Charles L'Enfant to bring it into existence; to the men and women penned and sold in its markets; to both enslaved and free laborers and craftsmen who helped build many of its historic structures including the Capitol and White House, African-Americans have been a consistent, if often invisible, presence on the National Mall. A Whisper That Wants To Shout: The Autobiography of the National African American Museum of History and Culture, an account of the century-long struggle to honor on the National Mall the rich and complex African-American experience as recalled by the only perennial observer of that struggle, the museum itself. Despite the scheduled 2016 opening of the National African American Museum of History and Culture (NAAMHC), the details of its journey have largely gone untold, much less understood, in its proper context; one that centers around the unique relationship of African-Americans to the National Mall and the Mall's singular importance in the construction, celebration and aims of American identity. A Whisper extends the work on race, space and identity I began in The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture and Music into here-to-fore uncharted territory for architectural criticism: a narrative non-fiction archeology of the century-long struggle of African-Americans to establish a specific cultural presence on the National Mall and concomitantly, in America's image of self. |
| The Contemporary Endocrinology of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Adina Turcu Medical School $2000.00 |
For over two years, my research has focused on congenital adrenal hyperplasia and other adrenal disorders. Through this application, I am seeking financial support for traveling to the annual Endocrine Society Meeting and to the preceding satellite Adrenal Cortex meeting, both held in Boston, MA, in March/April, 2016. These two meetings will enrich my professional development in multiple ways. First, attendance of the numerous educational sessions will augment my Endocrinology clinical knowledge and help apply that to my patient care. Second, the several career development workshops offer an interactive environment, where I can learn from experts in the field, interact with peers and improve my writing craftsmanship. As I strive to become a successful physician-scientist, participation in these workshops will improve my skills to develop and implement successful hypothesis-driven research and it will benefit my career path as an emerging investigator in the field of adrenal research. Third, by presenting data from my ongoing projects in these meetings, I will have the opportunity to showcase my research in front of renowned Endocrinologists and receive valuable feedback for future studies and endeavors. Lastly, I will establish ties with many leaders in the field of Endocrinology, and seek future collaborations, critical in the advancement of research in rare diseases, like congenital adrenal hyperplasia. In summary, funding from the Lecturers’ Professional Development Fund would be invaluable, by facilitating my attendance of the largest and most important career enhancing event of the year in Endocrinology. |
| 2015 Latin American Studies Association Conference David Frye LSA $1700.00 |
I seek funding for attending the 2015 LASA meeting in San Juan, PR, where I plan to present a paper on "Cuban Science Fiction as a Mirror of Cuban Society and Culture," as part of a panel on "Cuban Utopias: Jewish and Other Quests for Home." This will accomplish three goals. First, interacting with international scholars of Latin America will directly benefit my teaching; I offer two courses on Latin America generally and use examples from the region in my other cultural anthropology courses. I will update lectures, class discussion notes, and AV materials based on new data and stories gleaned from panels and personal interactions at LASA (and on the streets of San Juan), as I have done in the past. Second, exchanging ideas with my fellow panelists and audience members will help sharpen my ideas for two works that I currently am preparing for publication. Third, my latest research project is translating a novel by a San Juan-based writer, Eduardo Lalo—interpreting his work in English while respecting and representing his culture—and I soon may begin translating a second novel by him. I expect to take advantage of the serendipity of the conference location to meet with the writer and to visit the neighborhoods and landmarks that feature prominently in his work, giving me valuable grounding that will improve my translations and help me convey the cultural meanings of his work more effectively to an English-speaking audience. |
| Teaching, technology, and the building of professional communities of support Jeffrey Stanzler Education $1285.00 |
In the graduate course that I teach for the MAC (secondary teacher certification) Program on teaching with technology, my goals are to help my students think creatively about using web-based technology to enhance student learning, and to provide them with meaningful professional experiences that connect them with the larger community of educators. My application for funding is linked to a plan designed to work purposefully towards reaching these goals. In previous years, my students have attended Michigan's annual conference on teaching with technology, the MACUL (Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning) Conference. This year, I am applying to have my students actually present at the conference, with their presentations based on work they do in class in which they teach their peers how specific new technology tools can enhance student learning across the disciplines. In a day when both teachers and school funding are under siege, new teachers must be able to speak articulately and publicly about their practice, so the other part of my plan is to invite graduates of our program, who themselves do professional development work, to attend a "dress rehearsal" of the presentation and to offer feedback to my students. I want my students to participate in rich professional conversations, and I also want to strengthen ties with our alumni community, and I believe that my plan, at a very modest cost, will accomplish all of this, while providing my students with a valuable personal and professional experience. |
| Using Popular Culture in the Spanish as a Second Language Classroom Andrew Noverr LSA - Romance Languages and Literatures $2000.00 |
This proposal funds my participation in an international series of classes and workshops on incorporating popular culture in to the Spanish as a second language classroom. This experience will help me mentor the approximately 20 graduate student instructors and lecturers who work with me each academic year while providing training on creating new activities I can use in the classes I teach. |
| Authenticity Reconsidered: Archival Research, Scholarly Presentation, and Publication Bradley Taylor Administration $2000.00 |
I am requesting $2,000 in CRLT funding to support travel related to a publication/ presentation project that will require primary resource research in Gloucestershire, a county in rural England. As a result of a previous research trips to London and Manchester, I have learned of repositories in three different locations in Gloucestershire (Gloucester, Snowshill, and Cheltenham) which house archival photographs and original documents that relate to the purchase, de-construction, transfer, and reconstruction of two-seventeenth century stone cottages and a stone forge that now exist in Henry Ford's outdoor museum, Greenfield Village, in Dearborn, Michigan. With this trip, I will have completed all the work required to tell the story of Ford's collecting trips to the U.K., specifically his purchase of two historic buildings. Given the troubled histories of these two preservation efforts, the results shed dramatic new light on the concepts of authenticity and originality in museums. And while this trip is largely research focused, I have been invited to give at least two guest lectures (with the possibility of a third) on my return to England. I would be happy to use some of this CRLT funding to allow me to travel back to Manchester and to rural Cambridgeshire to make these presentations. The project I propose relates directly to my teaching in the Museum Studies Minor and classroom discussions of the unique nature of original works of creation, the quintessential nature of experiencing those objects in person, and issues relating to originality and authenticity. |
| Participation in IX ICCEES World Congress in August 2015 and revision of the Russian for heritage speakers course content $2000.00 |
To support my participation in IX ICCEES (International Council for Central and East European Studies) World Congress in August of 2015, where I will be chairing a panel titled "The Importance of Context and Specificity When Teaching Heritage Learners of Russian" and revision of the Russian for Heritage Speakers course content at The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. |
| "Writing the Unthinkable." Participation in a writing workshop with Lynda Barry Mary Gell LSA - Germanic Languages and Literatures $1675.00 |
Every year Lynda Barry, or as she calls herself Lynda Barry!!, an award-winning cartoonist, writer, University of Wisconsin associate professor and creative storytelling guru holds an intensive four-day workshop called "Writing the Unthinkable" in Rhinebeck, NY. Participants are engaged in rigorous in-class writing exercises while Barry guides them with a host of innovative techniques for tapping into what she considers our natural capacity for creativity. Less interested in the formal craft of writing, Barry is fascinated with discovering and helping others discover the place where new ideas come from. She encourages students to experience the fun of allowing ideas and memories to flow freely because for her "writing should take you for a ride." In these dynamic seminars, participants write and share personal and fictional narratives while exploring new ways to think creatively. While Barry's workshops may not be exclusive to writers or teachers of writing, I see great potential in her approach to teaching creative storytelling in my courses and believe that upon completing her workshop I could return to campus with a cornucopia of appealing, productive techniques that would benefit all of my students. Every class that I teach in the department from German 101 to German 386 has a creative writing or storytelling component, and Barry's ideas would be extremely valuable to me, my students and colleagues. |
| 57th Annual American Society of Hematology Meeting--December 2015 Patrick Burke Medical School $2000.00 |
The proposed project seeks funding to support attendance at The American Society of Hematology (ASH) 57th Annual Meeting and Exposition in December 2015. ASH is the largest meeting dedicated solely to benign and malignant hematology, where the latest in basic science, translational, and clinical hematologic research is presented and where future collaborative research concepts are discussed and developed between investigators at various institutions and biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies. I have attended the ASH annual meeting every year since 2012 and have presented abstracts at each of these meetings. I have also met with other investigators and pharmaceutical companies to move projects forward. Funds for the proposal would pay for the meeting registration fee, airfare, and hotel stay. This will permit presenting potential abstracts but also allow networking. In particular, I plan to continue collaborations for an investigator-initiated phase I/II clinical trial that I developed and wrote as a fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC). Currently, the phase I trial is pending final Institutional Review Board approval at MSKCC and will soon open. Discussion has already been held regarding opening the future phase II trial at multiple sites, including possibly the University of Michigan. This networking to foster other research projects and bringing clinical trials to the University of Michigan are emblematic of the importance of ASH. This will benefit my clinical training and research career as a young investigator at Michigan. It will also greatly influence the care of the leukemia patients I treat in the Cancer Center. |
| Attend 2015 American Planning Association Conference Jeffrey Kahan Architecture and Urban Planning $500.00 |
I would like to attend the 2015 American Planning Association's National Planning Conference in Seattle, in April 2015. The conference will provide multiple opportunities to obtain information that can be used to improve the course material for two classes that I currently teach in the Urban and Regional Planning Program at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. I have just begun co-teaching a new class that I co-created called, "Sustainable Water Infrastructure" which is being cross-listed with the Urban and Regional Planning program and the Civil Engineering program. I also teach a class that I created in 2004 called "Urban Land Use Planning" which is intended to give planning and design students exposure to current and best practices in the field. Attending the best urban planning conference in the U.S. will give me access to the people, presentations, and tours necessary for me to keep my students exposed to the latest information in the fields of water infrastructure and land use planning. The following subjects are specific areas of focus at the conference that I intend to introduce to my students: a) Geodesign, b) Smart Location Data Base, c) Coastal Protection Tools, d) Stormwater Management Best Practices (including a tour from a River Basin Steward from King County), e) Duwamish River Cleanup (including a tour from a representative from the City of Seattle Office of City Attorney), f) Green Alley Conversions, g) Sewage Reclamation, h) photo opportunities to update my PowerPoint Presentations). |
| Study abroad and internships abroad: Second language research and practice $2000.00 |
This project focuses on the linguistic and cultural development of University of Michigan undergraduates who participated in "traditional" study abroad programs and newly-designed internship abroad programs during summer 2014. For students of both programs I collected data (via surveys, online blogs, and grammar tests) on language use and cultural awareness in order to analyze linguistic and cultural development. I am seeking funds to attend two international conferences to present my research, attend other colleagues' talks, and participate in discussions that will enhance my knowledge of Spanish second language acquisition and study abroad. The first conference is the American Association of Applied Linguistics, to be held in Toronto, Canada in March 2015. The second conference is the Second Language Research Forum, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia in October 2015. My attendance at both conferences will grant me the opportunity to interact with peers in the field and discuss my research findings. For example, are online blogs more useful than daily diary entries? Do internships abroad foster greater linguistic development even though students never step into a classroom? Do traditional study abroad programs benefit cultural awareness in the sense that students live with host families rather than on their own? The feedback that I receive will help to shape the curricular changes that I implement in two courses that I teach for students who travel abroad: in the abroad context (in Salamanca, summer 2015) and in the Internship Abroad context (through the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, summer 2015). |
| 68th American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting $2000.00 |
The 68th American Epilepsy Society Annual Conference is an opportunity to renew the global commitment to epilepsy treatment and prevention. This year's conference is an opportunity for the international community, and all clinicians, researchers and social worker, to join efforts in committing to achieving a seizure-free world. The world's leading scientists, clinician, activists, people living with epilepsy, government will be joining the work force on how to achieve this vision. I am planning to: 1) identify new trends and cutting-edge research that will move the field of epilepsy forward for years to come; 2) present the research on Dravet syndrome conducted at the University of Michigan; 3) exchange the knowledge, skills and best practices in epilepsy with the leading scientists from around the globe; 4) scale up my knowledge in evidence-based practice of surgical intervention in refractory epilepsy; 5) participate in committee meetings to define priorities and set policy and program agendas to sustain the support for epilepsy research and education. |
| Ancient Community Space: A Presentation at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting Lisa Young LSA - Anthropology $1769.00 |
The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual meeting is the largest professional conference of anthropological archaeologists in the United States. This meeting provides an internationally recognized venue for archaeologists to present their research and share ideas and experiences. I request funding from the CRLT LPDF to enable me to attend the 80th annual SAA meetings in San Francisco, California, from April 15-19, 2015. At the meetings, I will present a paper, entitled "Community Spaces at Pueblo III Pithouse Villages in Northeastern Arizona," which is an outgrowth of my long-term research on the organization of prehistoric Southwestern farming communities. This paper will be presented in a symposium called "Homol'ovi: A Gathering Space," organized by Dr. E. Charles Adams of the University of Arizona. This symposium, and the conference as a whole, will provide an ideal venue for me to present my ideas and receive feedback on my research. The SAA meetings are also an important venue for professional development related to my role as undergraduate and honors advisor for archaeology students in the UM Department of Anthropology. I am a member of the selection committee for a newly created national award for best undergraduate paper and poster presentation at the SAA meetings. I will also have the opportunity to meet with and/or see the presentations of recent graduates from the U of M Anthropology program, who I advised as honors students. |
| 2015 AWP Writers Conference Panel Presentation and Bookfair Jeremiah Chamberlin LSA - English Language and Literature $2000.00 |
To attend the 2015 AWP Writers Conference as a presenter on the panel "God Made Flyover States: Writing the Rural Midwest," which relates directly to and will help inform my continued teaching of Midwestern, Michigan, and Rust Belt Literatures in the English Department at the University of Michigan, as well as to participate in the bookfair as the Editor-in-Chief of Fiction Writers Review, an online literary journal founded by University of Michigan alumni. I also hope to attend a number of talks and panels focused on the teaching of writing in general and the pedagogy of creative writing in particular, with special attention to issues related to teaching genre literature, integrating new media and digital publishing in the classroom, and effectively interacting with student writing as a critical respondent. |
