Our instructors have spent their summer months engaged in a variety of activities -- everything from connecting with family, to traveling, teaching, researching, writing, and even just staying-put and recharging. Read on to learn about what some of our instructors have been up to since you last saw them.
Thanks to the generosity of a PWR Research Grant and a Rare Book School Director's Fellowship, Meg Formato attended a course on Born Digital Materials in Special Collections at Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia, Through the course she learned how born digital materials are being preserved in archives and special collections and how to partner with archivists and librarians to make use of these rich sources in both research and teaching.
Alex Greenhough presented a paper, "Hello, I'm Albert Brooks," at the Music and the Moving Image conference at New York University. He also participated in Scholarship in Sound & Image: Workshop on Videographic Criticism at Middlebury College, a two-week workshop in which scholars made video essays.
Sarah Pittock's and Julia Bleakney's "Tutor Talk: Do Tutors Scaffold Students' Revisions" will appear in the new issue of the Writing Center Journal.
In June, Emily Polk was awarded an Excellence in Teaching Award for her work as Writing Specialist for Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences. Read all about her award here.
Becky Richardson presented work around her research on the rhetoric of economic and environmental health in Davis in June (at the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) and in the Lake District in August (at the Wordsworth Summer Conference). She especially enjoyed the chance to present on Harriet Martineau just a mile from Martineau's home, "the Knoll," in Ambleside. Conference-goers paid a visit to the garden that Wordsworth helped Martineau design.
Selby Schwartz would like to share that the Prison Renaissance at Stanford zine project is honored that both issues of "Incarceratedly Yours" were accepted into the 18th Annual San Francisco Zine Fest.
Kathleen Tarr writes, "My filmmaker hat: I produced a video for the Women's Cancer Resource Center promoting the Swim A Mile. My thespian hat: I appear (for all of 15 seconds) as a doctor in "Bennett's War" which opened Labor Day Weekend."
In addition, several instructors taught here at Stanford over the summer:
- Erik Ellis and John Peterson spent their summer session teaching incoming athletes enrolled in PWR 1A: Introduction to Writing at Stanford. See our interview with them about their classes here.
- Chris Kamrath taught PWR 6VT, "Writing in the University: Academic Argument" as part of Summer Session's Veteran Accelerator for military veterans.
- Helen Lie taught our first-ever PWR 2 summer course
- Ruth Starkman and Raechel Lee taught "Introduction to College Writing" for Stanford's Horizon Scholar's Program
- Meg Formato, Shannon Hervey, Jennifer Johnson, and Ashley Newby taught the writing sections for the Leland Scholars Program in August
