December 2, 2014
If you are like most faculty, you have a little nagging voice asking you, "Hey, when are you going to get back to your writing???" The quest to find that teaching/research balance is an on-going challenge, no matter your stage. So, Faculty Development has teamed up with the Office of Research & Sponsored Projects to help you jumpstart your writing. The Faculty Writing Initiative will be offering 4 programs across the Spring & Summer to support faculty writing. That's right folks, we are going to provide small faculty stipends to encourage you to get busy writing! Three Spring programs by Faculty Development and a Summer writing bootcamp by Research & Sponsored Projects. (First deadline to apply is December 15th for the February Faculty Development writing program.)
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 4:00pm to Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 4:00pm
Location:
Four Wednesdays in February 2015:
2/4 - 2/11 - 2/18 - 2/25
4:00-6:30 in Manzanita Hall 240 (Aronstam)
This four-session series will invoke and nurture the creative spirit within us and evoke the voices of the poet, the storyteller, the dramatist each of us carries into our personal and professional lives.
Using words, images and music as prompts for varied kinds of generative writing exercises, we will call on the writer within and develop our craft in a supportive and safe environment. Using the AWA method we leave our inner critics at the door and focus on affirming what stays with us or captivates us in the writing generated and shared in the workshop.
As a collective we will explore and expand our imaginative and expressive capacities. We welcome faculty looking for new modes of inspiration who are open to experiments with the craft.
A stipend of $100 is offered to each participant for completion of the series.
Limited to only 10 members. So sign up TODAY by emailing facdev@csun.edu!
Sign up deadline: January 16, 2015
led by Emerita Faculty Christie Logan, Ph.D.
christie.logan@csun.edu
Affiliate of Ameherst Writers and Artists
https://amherstwriters.info/
certified to lead workshops in the AWA method
as described in Writing Alone & With Others
by Pat Schneider. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 4:00pm to Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 4:00pm
Location:
Four Wednesdays in March 2015:
3/4 - 3/11 - 3/18 - 3/25
4:00-6:30 in Manzanita Hall 214
...writing as doing displaces writing as meaning; writing becomes
meaningful in the material, dis/continuous act of writing.
Della Pollock, "Performative Writing" 75
This series of workshops is designed to bring the writing that we do as scholars closer - to who and what and where we are studying, to our research and writing processes, and to our audiences. We will also explore how we can make our writing more engaging by modeling in our scholarly work the ways that other texts (poetry, stories and novels and essays) move us in their lyricism, in their affective engagement of our senses, in their ability to show theory in action.
The workshops will be organized around four writing practices/provocations designed to enhance and expand the creativity of your scholarly writing processes and products: writing into/through/in response to images, working with collage and other techniques of juxtaposition, using citation to integrate and innovatively work with theory and other texts, and choosing writing forms and structures that performatively embody your ideas/insights/arguments.
A stipend of $100 is offered to each participant for completion of the series
Limited to only 10 members. So sign up TODAY by emailing facdev@csun.edu!
Sign up deadline: February 15, 2015.
Led by Stacy Holman Jones, PhD
Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Editor, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research and co-editor, The Handbook of Autoethnography
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 4:00pm to Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 4:00pm
Location:
Four Wednesdays in February 2015:
4/1 - 4/15 - 4/22 - 4/29
4:00-6:30 in Manzanita Hall 240 (Aronstam)
Due to popular demand this series is back for another round! This four-session series will invoke and nurture the creative spirit within us and evoke the voices of the poet, the storyteller, the dramatist each of us carries into our personal and professional lives.
Using words, images and music as prompts for varied kinds of generative writing exercises, we will call on the writer within and develop our craft in a supportive and safe environment. Using the AWA method we leave our inner critics at the door and focus on affirming what stays with us or captivates us in the writing generated and shared in the workshop.
As a collective we will explore and expand our imaginative and expressive capacities. We welcome faculty looking for new modes of inspiration who are open to experiments with the craft.
A stipend of $100 is offered to each participant for completion of the series.
Limited to only 10 members. So sign up TODAY by emailing facdev@csun.edu!
Sign up deadline: January 18, 2015
led by Emerita Faculty Christie Logan, Ph.D.
christie.logan@csun.edu
Affiliate of Ameherst Writers and Artists
https://amherstwriters.info/
certified to lead workshops in the AWA method
as described in Writing Alone & With Others
by Pat Schneider. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 1:00pm to Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 1:00pm
Location:
Write with us Four Tuesdays in April and May
Dates: April 14, 21, 28, May 5. 1-4 p.m.
Place: Communication Studies conference room
Manzanita Hall 214
Facilitated by Dr. Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Communication Studies
Our academic and personal lives pull us in multiple directions: family, teaching, committee work, attending conferences. CSUN becomes a place we come just to attend meetings, mentor students, and teach classes. The Faculty Writing Initiative is set up to nourish the intellectual and creative writing aspects of our lives on our campus. Do you miss those heady grad school days when we sat around discussing ideas? Do you long for a community of readers to rigorously engage your work? The Productive Writing Workshop for the Faculty WritingInitiative provide an opportunity for academic and creative writers to develop new material and workshop their writing-in-progress.
The first two workshops in this series will focus on developing a work plan to complete rough drafts of our works-in-progress. Participants will create a writing plan, identify needed resources, and engage in on-site writing activities designed to break through perfectionism and generate writerly flow. The last two workshops will provide writers an opportunity to engage in an interdisciplinary writing workshop. Each participant will have an opportunity to workshop their works-in-progress and receive substantive feedback from their colleagues based on a "Rhetorics of Inquiry" model of interdisciplinary exchange. Participants will engage each other's work from their own disciplinary locations, generating productive new insights into modes of inquiry and knowledge production.
A stipend of $100 is offered to each participant for the completion of the series
There are only 10 slots available. So sign up NOW by emailing facdev@csun.edu!!
Deadline for signing up: March 9th, 2015