This academic year, the Writing Institute will offer a series of workshops and talks on writers and Learn More >
News and Events
Sep15
“Disability and Universal Design: A Primer”
Feb19
Dr. Louis Maraj, Lecture: #BLM, Black Feminism, and the New Afrocentrism
Speaker: Louis Maraj, Assistant Professor, Department of English.
This Learn More >
Jan17
Coding Carnival: families can learn about coding and experience a taste of Brazilian carnival culture
Nov20
Professor Lou Maraj, “It ain’t that deep”: Deep Rhetorical Ecologies & Para/Ontological Blackness”
PITT Composition Works-In-Progress. Introducing Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics Learn More >
Nov01
Pedagogical Workshop: Derek Mueller "Reading Out of Bounds / Writing Off the Edge"
Oct03
Dr. Carmen Kynard Lecture
Carmen Kynard is a Professor and the Lillian Radford Chair in Rhetoric and Composition and Professor Learn More >
Apr26
Annual Composition Program End-of-the-Year Celebration
The Composition Program will celebrate the end of the year with talks from Professor and Charles Learn More >
Nov15
Colloquium: Joseph Harris, "The Essay as Form in the Digital Age"
The Humanities Center will host a discussion with Joseph Harris, University of Delaware, about his Learn More >
Mar24
A Conversation with Sondra Perl
Join us for a wide-ranging public and informal conversation on topics that may include the shape of Learn More >
Mar23
Lecture: Sondra Perl, “Post-Holocaust Journeys: From the Teaching of Hate to a Pedagogy of Hope”
"Post-Holocaust Journeys: From the Teaching of Hate to a Pedagogy of Hope" will recount Perl’s Learn More >
Feb23
Assignment Development & Design Roundtable
Designing writing assignments, and the accompanying instructions Learn More >
Dec05
Nathaniel A. Rivers - "The ANT and the Frenchman: Tracing Rhetoric Through Bruno Latour"
Nathaniel A. Rivers is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Saint Louis University Learn More >
Nov10
Workshop: Revision, Remediation, Iteration: Beyond "Drafting” for Composition Pedagogy
Oct27
Chris Ivey - Pittsburgh Documentary Filmmaker
Filmmaker Chris Ivey speaks about his East of Liberty documentary, a project that began in Learn More >
Apr20
"MIT Imagination, Computation, and Expression Laboratory Approaches to Digital Storytelling" with D. Fox Harrell and Chong-U Lim
This hands-on digital storytelling workshop is open to all. There are Learn More >
Apr19
"Interactive Narrative for Cultural Expression and Critique" with D. Fox Harrell
D. Fox Harrell's research explores the use of the computer for creative Learn More >
Feb25
Digital Storytelling Series: Steph Ceraso and Steven Hammer
"Composing /with/ Noise" by Steven Hammer (St. Joseph's University) & "Sound Never Tasted So Learn More >
Jan22
At the Feet of Rhetorica - Lecture by Debra Hawhee
Presented by the University of Pittsburgh Chapter of the Rhetoric Society of America.
Jan15
International Students in English: Seniors Tell Their Stories
Jiaxu Ye (Nonfiction Writing), Minting Yu (Molecular Biology), Xichu Liu (Actuarial Mathematics), Learn More >
Dec02
Digital Showcase
Explore the range of ways in which English students are using digital media, celebrate current Learn More >