Conference program
Writing and Responding to Illness Narratives Workshop
The Examined Life: the Writing, Humanities and Arts of Medicine (Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 24 Oct 2019 - 26 Oct 2019)
25 Oct 2019
Abstract
This hands-on workshop will use sample student texts to discuss responding to student writing focusing on illness and trauma, in a variety of different classroom contexts. We will consider the ways in which writing about illness and trauma can be healing, while also considering the limits of that healing and possible consequences of writing as retraumatizing. We are particularly concerned with the ethics of responding to stories about illness and how the subject position of writers, their intersectionality and race, class, gender, sexualities, and dis/abilities affects the professor's response. Workshop members will be invited to respond to writing prompts, comment on sample essays, raise their own concerns about students' disclosures, and leave with ideas about effective assignments and response strategies.
Metrics
1 Record Views
Details
- Title
- Writing and Responding to Illness Narratives Workshop
- Creators
- Ann GreenEdward C Fristrom - Drexel University, English and Philosophy
- Conference
- The Examined Life: the Writing, Humanities and Arts of Medicine (Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 24 Oct 2019 - 26 Oct 2019)
- Resource Type
- Conference program
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- English and Philosophy
- Identifiers
- 991020668800004721