Please join us for a free, one day regional conference on Disability and the Teaching of Writing on Friday, April 20th at the Howard Gittis Student Center, Temple University. Keynote speakers include Brenda Brueggemann and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, editors of Disability and the Teaching of Writing. Lunch is provided and will feature poetry …
Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, marked the PWPA’s second annual PWPA social. Held at Tir Na Nog in Philadelphia, the event gathered many folks from institutions in the greater Philly area for an evening of good conversation (not all “talking shop”) and tasty apps. It was a perfect kind of low-key Friday …
PWPA’s annual social event will be held on Friday, February 17, 5-7pm. The event will take place at Tir Na Nog, at 1600 Arch Street in Center City, Philadelphia. Please join us for some spirits, appetizers, and warm conversation and networking. We hope to see you all there!
The rain couldn’t keep a marvelous attendance at the PWPA’s first meeting of the year. The membership gathered on Friday, September 23, for its Fall meeting at Ursinus College to discuss writing-intensive pedagogy and administration. Lori Salem (Temple University) opened the day-long conference with her down-to-earth talk about the benefits …
The next PWPA Meeting will be held at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA on Friday, September 23rd. The meeting will focus on writing-intensive pedagogy and administration. Here is the current schedule for the meeting. In addition to the wonderful PWPA members who will be presenting, we will have Gerald Graff …
PWPA is thrilled to announce the recipients of our 2011 WPA Travel Grants. Not surprisingly, we had a healthy competition for these grants. Thanks to the ad-hoc committee who VERY quickly reviewed these applications so that we could distribute the funds before CWPA. Thanks to Jeanne Rose, Seth Frechie, and …
Friday, May 13, 2011, marked the PWPA’s first annual PWPA Social. Held at Tir Na Nog in Philadelphia, the event was enthusiastically and warmly attended. Guests gathered, talked a little bit of shop, and mostly just connected about our lives in and out of academia. Delicious hors d’oeuvres and spirits made …
This has been the year for blustery days and PWPA meetings. But it doesn’t seem to stop us from getting together and getting some good work done.
