The spring 2024 RDE workshop for WashU graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences will focus on writing as a tool for advocacy of various forms. Through a series of writing workshops and discussions with an array of humanities practitioners, this event will explore ways that graduate students can use their most well-honed and readily deployable skill — writing — to achieve a variety of ends across the graduate school experience, both on campus and off. Students participating in this workshop will be invited to think capaciously about writing, community and the role of the humanities PhD in the contemporary world.
How can creative practices renew us as writers and empower us to ask bolder questions in our scholarship?
How can we use research and writing skills to identify and advocate for the university we believe in?
How do we connect writing and research with our values?
How do we create communities of practice stemming from our scholarship?
How might our scholarship translate into meaningful change?
How do we write ourselves into thriving as humanities practitioners?
How can we develop practices that connect our research with where those topics live in the world today?
This workshop is available to all levels of graduate students — we particularly encourage early career graduate students to join. Following the event, all participants will receive a free hour of editing services from invited guest Katina Rogers, author of Putting the Humanities PhD to Work.
We have reached capacity for this workshop.
