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After a Busy Fall Semester, Brown Chair in English Literacy Initiative Looks Ahead to 2022
Beth Godbee welcoming participants to the first “Contemplative Writing Workshop” meeting on Oct. 5th.
As it concludes a busy fall semester, the Brown Chair in English Literacy Initiative is now looking ahead to an exciting start to 2022.
After co-sponsoring a popular workshop this past summer, “Planning Writing Projects,” led by Beth Godbee, the Brown Chair in English Literacy Initiative and the Fayetteville Public Library collaborated again in October to sponsor a virtual “Contemplative Writing Workshop,” also led by Godbee.
Godbee, who has written for Inside Higher Ed about her decision to leave a tenured position at Marquette University in 2018, now regularly publishes pieces on contemplative writing through her blog at Heart-Head-Hands.com.
Her research focuses upon “social, racial, and environmental justice; power, agency, and rights; and relational communication.”
KJ Rawson to Give Virtual Lecture on Race and Digital Transgender History
The Gender Studies Program at the U of A will host a virtual lecture by KJ Rawson, a renowned author and professor of transgender history at Northeastern University. Rawson’s lecture, titled “Archival Reckonings: Asserting Queer and Trans Power in Information Environments,” will occur at 6 p.m. CST on Tuesday, Sept. 28, via Zoom.
Rawson’s lecture will address racial disparities in existing trans-related historical collections, with a focus on how scholars are currently addressing the overrepresentation of white people and erasure of trans people of color in trans archives.
Rawson is the founder and director of the Digital Transgender Archive, an award-winning online repository of trans-related historical materials. His scholarship lies at the intersections of digital humanities and rhetoric, LGBTQ+, and feminist studies. Focusing on archives as key sites of cultural power, he studies the rhetorical work of queer and transgender archival collections in both brick-and-mortar and digital spaces.
Professor Eric Darnell Pritchard Joins English Department as New Brown Chair in English Literacy
The Department of English welcomes professor Eric Darnell Pritchard as a new member of its faculty and as the new Brown Chair in English Literacy for the University of Arkansas.
The position of Brown Chair was previously held by professor emeritus in English David Jolliffe.
Pritchard received their B.A. in English-Liberal Arts from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Afro-American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in English also from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Pritchard comes to the University of Arkansas from the Department of English at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).