The Writing Program invites you to attend one of the events in our upcoming symposium, Writing In the Changing Academy.

Tues, Feb 24 4:30- 6 pm, “Memoria: Every Writer’s Muse,” an interactive lecture with Victor Villanueva,Regents Professor and Director of the Writing Program at Washington State University, author of the award-winning book:Bootstraps, From an American Academic of Color, Rhetorics of the Americas: 3114 BCE to 2013 CE..Abernethy Room

Wed, Feb. 25 12:15-1:30 pm, “Writing, Identity and Power,” a student-led conversation for faculty, students and staff. Carr Hall Lounge. If you know that you plan to attend lunch, please RSVP our coordinator, Sheerya Shivers, sshivers@middlebury.edu. If you can’t commit to lunch in advance, you are still very welcome to show up.

Sadly, because of illness of the speaker, the Wednesday lecture is cancelled.

4:30-6 pm, “Traveling Down a Desire Line: Surviving Where Academia and Community Meet,” an interactive lecture with Julianna Ávila, Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, author of Moving Critical Literacies Forward: A New Look at Praxis Across Contexts (Routledge). Robert A. Jones House

Mary Ellen Bertolini
Writing Center Director & Senior Lecturer, Writing
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research