{"id":168,"date":"2022-12-13T21:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T21:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:35:54","slug":"on-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/programs\/on-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"On Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n        \n  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--editorial-cards \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--editorial-cards\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Upcoming Events\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n                <\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"cards-container\">\n      \n        <div class=\"card\">\n\n          \n                                      \n                \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2026\/06\/On-Writing-Sentences-11-768x432.png\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2026\/06\/On-Writing-Sentences-11-1280x720.png 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/levan-institute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/2026\/06\/On-Writing-Sentences-11-768x432.png 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 23vw, (min-width:768px) 39vw, 83vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"Nik De Dominic and Joanathan Leal\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n          \n          <div class=\"text-container\">\n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>On Writing<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n            \n                            <h3>\n                  \n                    On Writing\u2014Voice\n\n                                  <\/h3>\n            \n                              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>September 18, 2026, 12pm\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.usc.edu\/event\/levan-institute-series-on-writingvoice\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">More<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This event is part\u00a0of the Levan Institute for the Humanities&#8217;\u00a0\u201cOn Writing\u201d series, conversations aiming to answer questions about how writing matters, now.\u00a0This conversation will feature\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/nicholas-de-dominic\/\">Nik De Dominic<\/a>\u00a0(USC) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/jonathan-leal\/\">Jonathan Leal<\/a>\u00a0(USC), hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/sarah-mesle\/\">Sarah Mesle<\/a>\u00a0(USC). Organized in partnership with the\u00a0Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race and Public Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n                      <\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n      \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Past Events\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-ITxgu81pue\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-ITxgu81pue\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">On Writing\u2014Sentences<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-ITxgu81pue\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-ITxgu81pue\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>March 27, 2026, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>| <\/strong>RECORDING FORTHCOMING<\/p>\n<p>This conversation featureed V.V. Ganeshananthan (University of Minnesota) and Kate Levin (USC) on the topic of \u201csentences,\u201d hosted by Sarah Mesle (USC).<\/p>\n<p><b>Description<\/b>:\u00a0What knowledge, what artistry, can a sentence hold? Whose rules must it follow? What kinds of personhood can it express, and how? How does genre shape what a sentence can be? This event brings together two professors and activists who have considered how to craft sentences that bridge the gap between creative and researched writing. We\u2019ll talk about sentences we love, sentences we\u2019re proud of, and sentences that changed what we think a sentence can do. But we\u2019ll also consider \u201csentence\u201d in a different, juridical, sense \u2014 as a judgement, a punishment. We\u2019ll ask: how does remembering the double meaning of \u201csentence\u201d help us see the overlap between our writing lives and our obligations to justice in the world?<\/p>\n<p><b>V. V. Ganeshananthan<\/b>\u00a0(she\/her) is the author of the novels\u00a0<i>Brotherless Night<\/i>\u00a0(winner of the 2024 Women&#8217;s Prize for Fiction, the 2024 Carol Shields Prize, the 2023 Asian Prize, a\u00a0<i>New York Times<\/i>\u00a0Editors\u2019 Choice, and an NPR Book of the Year) and\u00a0<i>Love Marriage<\/i>\u00a0(longlisted for the Women&#8217;s Prize and named one of the best books of the year by\u00a0<i>The Washington Post<\/i>). Her work has appeared in\u00a0<i>Granta<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The New York Times<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>The Best American Nonrequired Reading<\/i>, among other publications. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota, where she is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and professor of English. Since 2017, she has co-hosted Literary Hub\u2019s\u00a0<i>Fiction\/Non\/Fiction<\/i>\u00a0podcast, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kate Levin<\/b>\u00a0is Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing at the University of Southern California, where she is co-founder and co-director of the Dornsife Prison Education Project. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize. Her work has been published in<i>\u00a0The New York Time<\/i>s, the\u00a0<i>Boston Glob<\/i>e, the\u00a0<i>Nation<\/i>, and a variety of literary journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-ITxgu81pue\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-ITxgu81pue\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">On Writing\u2014Evidence<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-ITxgu81pue\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-ITxgu81pue\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>April 10, 2026, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> RECORDING FORTHCOMING<\/p>\n<p>This conversation featured Daniel Immerwahr (Northwestern University) and Antonio Coronel Elefano (USC) on the topic of \u201cevidence,\u201d hosted by Sarah Mesle (USC).<\/p>\n<p><b>Description<\/b>:\u00a0We\u2019re writing in a moment when clear standards of evidence are more important than ever. But knowing that evidence matters doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s easy for writers to understand how to use it \u2014 especially when political and technological changes pit different kinds of arguments and evidence against each other. So, it\u2019s more important than ever to ask: how do you know that a claim is true? How do you prove it? This event brings together writers with training in different fields \u2014 legal studies, history, creative writing, journalism, and literary studies \u2014 to ask: for you, what kinds of evidence count as proof? How do you make your case in a courtroom, in literary criticism, in history scholarship, in a book review, in a novel? We\u2019ll talk about our own experiences of finding, arranging, and evaluating evidence \u2014 and we\u2019ll share our ideas about explaining different forms of evidence to students.<\/p>\n<p><b>Antonio Elefano<\/b>\u00a0joined USC\u2019s Writing faculty in the fall of 2014. Before coming to USC, he was a corporate litigator in New York City and a writing fellow\/visiting assistant professor at the University of Houston. A graduate of Yale Law School and the author of\u00a0<i>Legal Writing for the Undergraduate<\/i>\u00a0from Wolters Kluwer\/Aspen, he is the Writing Program\u2019s legal writing specialist, teaching WRIT 340: Moot Court, WRIT 320: Competitive Moot Court (focused on oral argumentation), WRIT 340: Legal Writing and WRIT 440: Advanced Legal Writing. He is the faculty advisor for Southern California Moot Court (which in 2024 was named the top school in the country in appellate brief writing and in 2025 won the national championship in brief writing), Phi Alpha Delta (USC\u2019s pre-law fraternity), and the Survivor Support Community at USC. In 2024, he was awarded the USC Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest honor for teaching given at USC. That same year, he received his second USC Mentoring Award for Mentoring Undergraduates (his first was in 2019). Elefano is also a fiction writer whose stories have been published in\u00a0<i>The Los Angeles Review<\/i>,\u00a0<i>236<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>The Journal<\/i>. In August 2014, his story \u201cItaly\u201d was one of Buzzfeed\u2019s \u201c29 Short Stories You Need to Read in Your Twenties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Daniel Immerwahr<\/b>\u00a0(Ph.D., Berkeley, 2011) is Bergen Evans Professor in the Humanities and Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence. He is the author of\u00a0<i>Thinking Small\u00a0<\/i>(Harvard, 2015) and\u00a0<i>How to Hide an Empire<\/i>\u00a0(FSG, 2019), both of which have won scholarly awards. Immerwahr is a contributing writer for\u00a0<i>The New Yorker<\/i>\u00a0and his essays have also appeared in\u00a0<i>The New York Times<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Guardian<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Atlantic<\/i>, the\u00a0<i>Washington Post<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Harper&#8217;s<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The New Republic<\/i>, and the\u00a0<i>New York Review of Books<\/i>, among other places. He is writing a fire history of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-ITxgu81pue\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-ITxgu81pue\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">On Writing\u2014Endings<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-ITxgu81pue\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-ITxgu81pue\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>April 23, 2026, 12\u20131pm<\/strong>\u00a0 <strong>|<\/strong> RECORDING FORTHCOMING<\/p>\n<p>This conversation featured Elisa Tamarkin (UC Berkeley) and Jesse Alem\u00e1n (University of New Mexico) on the topic of \u201cendings,\u201d hosted by Sarah Mesle (USC).<\/p>\n<p><b>Description:\u00a0<\/b>Sometimes, the world gives us clear endings: the time runs out on the game clock, a political term concludes, victory or defeat is declared. But in writing, endings are often blurry and complicated. When are you done writing? What should your conclusion say? What last line can drive home your point \u2014 and how can you let go of everything that a piece of writing might say but didn\u2019t?\u00a0\u00a0In their recent books, the two writers featured in this conversation describe political events \u2014 such as the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, and the Vietnam War \u2014 which ended at a specific time but continue to shape our lives today. These events show us that even in the world, endings are often less clear than they seem. Together, we\u2019ll discuss strategies for reaching the end of a piece of writing, even as the world we\u2019re describing continues to evolve.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jesse Alem\u00e1n<\/b>\u00a0is a professor of English and Presidential Teaching Fellow at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches nineteenth-century American and US Latinx literary and cultural histories. He is the author of\u00a0<i>Latinx Civil Wars: The Formation of Latinidad in an Age of Revolution and Rebellion<\/i>\u00a0(NYU Press 2026). He has also published two co-edited collections,\u00a0<i>Empire and the Literature of Sensation<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>The Latino Nineteenth Century<\/i>, and he reprinted\u00a0<i>The Woman in Battle: The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez<\/i>. He has over two dozen articles and essays in venues such as\u00a0<i>Aztl\u00e1n<\/i>,\u00a0<i>American Literary History<\/i>, and the\u00a0<i>PMLA<\/i>, and his co-edited special issue on &#8220;Trans Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Americas&#8221; is slated for the upcoming 13.1 release of\u00a0<i>Trans Studies Quarterly<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Elisa Tamarkin<\/b>\u00a0is Professor and Katharine Bixby Hotchkis Chair in English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of\u00a0<i>Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon<\/i>\u00a0(University of Chicago Press, 2026) on the end of the Vietnam War and the beginning of the end of both foreign correspondence and the nation&#8217;s city newspapers. Her previous books,\u00a0<i>Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Relevance and Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America<\/i>, were also published by University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          <span style=\"color:gray;\">On Writing, 2020\u20132022<\/span>\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Conversations about what it means to write, and be a writer, in academia.<\/p>\n<p>For humanists, writing forms a crucial part of scholarly identity: it can be both the topic of our research and how we communicate it; it is our object of study and our craft. Yet much about how we write\u2014the forms of writing available to us, the struggles we experience as writers, and the strategies we deploy to surmount these struggles\u2014often goes unshared. What does it mean to write, and be a writer, in academia? This series brings together writers, at universities and elsewhere, to discuss a practice we share in common, with a focus on process: the mysterious, and at times maddening, mechanism by which we make our work. On Writing offers a set of discussions among academics, writers, editors, and others about the nature of writing \u2014 both within the academy and in the wider world.<\/p>\n<p><em>This event series was convened 2020\u20132022 by Emily Hodgson Anderson and David Ulin.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Writing the Short Book<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-tZ9VtAF5w9\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-tZ9VtAF5w9\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>March 29, 2022, 11am-12:30pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201c<span class=\"markvlrvb6d1e\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">short<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"markly9y8wm3o\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">book<\/span>\u201d is now a trend in academia and beyond.\u00a0\u00a0New series devoted to this form publish monographs or long essays that are about a third the length of a traditional\u00a0<span class=\"markly9y8wm3o\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">book<\/span>, and academic and trade presses alike advertise these new, concise presentations as increasing \u201caccessibility\u201d and circulation. It makes sense, given the insistent demands most of us face for our attention. But the\u00a0<span class=\"markvlrvb6d1e\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">short<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"markly9y8wm3o\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">book<\/span>\u00a0has an aesthetic and a function all its own. This panel will look at the\u00a0<span class=\"markvlrvb6d1e\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">short<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"markly9y8wm3o\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">book<\/span>\u00a0on its own terms, asking what brevity offers both writers and readers that longer, more traditional\u00a0<span class=\"markly9y8wm3o\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">book<\/span>s may not. We will also ask what the\u00a0<span class=\"markvlrvb6d1e\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">short<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"markly9y8wm3o\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">book<\/span>\u00a0<i>could\u00a0<\/i>offer: how it is a form that we can continue to develop, what role concision (and accessibility) plays in our scholarship, and how the\u00a0<span class=\"markvlrvb6d1e\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">short<\/span>er monograph can contribute to the academic profiles of those who seek tenure and promotion. We will be joined by a combination of publishers, editors, and writers who work in this area, and brief presentations from our panelists will be followed by a general Q&amp;A<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monica Huerta, Assistant professor of English and American Studies, Princeton University; Series Editor of Writing Matters at Duke University Press<\/li>\n<li>Alison Kinney, Assistant Professor of Writing, The New School<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Mesle, USC\u00a0Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing;\u00a0Senior Editor at Large,\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Review of Books,\u00a0<\/em>and the editor of LARB channel\u00a0<em>Avidly<\/em>\u00a0and the NYU short book series\u00a0<em>Avidly Reads<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Christopher Schaberg,\u00a0Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Center for Editing and Publishing, Loyola University New Orleans; Editor, Object Lessons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moderated by Emily Hodgson Anderson, Professor of English and College Dean of Undergraduate Education, and David Ulin, Associate Professor of the Practice of English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">The Literary Essay<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-tZ9VtAF5w9\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-tZ9VtAF5w9\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>November 16, 2021, 12pm-1pm<\/strong> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/y6r2MHuCcdQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Definitions of the essay are vague and various. It may be formal or informal; lyrical or critical, long or short; personal or not at all. Aldous Huxley described it as \u201ca literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything,\u201d and Michel de Montaigne claimed the term for his writings, linking up his literary \u201cattempts,\u201d or\u00a0<i>essais<\/i>, to the French origins of the word. To essay, at its most etymological, is \u201cto try.\u201d\u00a0 In this event, we will examine the current popularity and parameters of this form.\u00a0 How might academics incorporate essayistic strategies into scholarly repertoires, and what venues foster these \u201cattempts\u201d? What aesthetic guidelines, if any, exist for a form that is by definition so capacious? How does the literary essay differ from a journal article designed for peer review? We will be joined again in our discussion by practitioners and editors, in a conversation followed by group Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geoff Dyer, author and USC writer in residence<\/li>\n<li>Lynell George, L.A. based journalist and essayist<\/li>\n<li>Jos\u00e9 Vadi, poet, playwright, and essayist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moderated by Emily Hodgson Anderson, Professor of English and College Dean of Undergraduate Education, and David Ulin, Associate Professor of the Practice of English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">The Art of the Book Review: Academic and Beyond<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-tZ9VtAF5w9\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-tZ9VtAF5w9\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>September 28, 2021, 11am-12:30pm<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8ql3yj5i4e4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwpce2urjMjGNGr3dNKB_UhHKjcX8SDjS7Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For many academics, the book review can offer an opportunity to engage in public discourse, as well as a way to learn more about current state of thinking in one\u2019s field. Successful book reviews, however, are different than academic criticism; they must function as lyrical essays in their own right while also presenting an assessment of the work at hand on a variety of levels: criticism and service journalism, as it were. It is a form in which there is no formal training; most reviewers figure it out as they go along. This event will seek to jump-start that process by gathering book review editors and practiced reviewers to address questions that include: What are the qualities of a successful book review?\u00a0How does the book review in a specialized academic journal compare to a review in a general interest publication?\u00a0What are the responsibilities of the reviewer in terms of dealing with lay readers? How are book reviews solicited or placed?\u00a0 Our invited guests will share remarks for the first half of the event and devote the remaining time to collaborative Q&amp;A.\u00a0Registration before the event is required.\u00a0Attendants outside of USC are welcome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Colin Burrow, Professor of English and Comparative Literature; Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, and Contributor,\u00a0<i>London Review of Books<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Anita Felicelli, Author and Contributor,\u00a0<i>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Boris Kachka, Books Editor, the\u00a0<i>Los Angeles Times<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Danzy Senna, Associate Professor of English, USC<\/li>\n<li>James Yeh, Reviews Editor,<i>\u00a0The Believer<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Moderated by Emily Hodgson Anderson, Professor of English and College Dean of Undergraduate Education, and David Ulin, Associate Professor of the Practice of English<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-4-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-controls=\"section-1-4-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Writers in Conversation<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-4-tZ9VtAF5w9\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-4-tZ9VtAF5w9\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>April 14, 2021, 9am-10:30am<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zj-Yzo6336Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwpce2urjMjGNGr3dNKB_UhHKjcX8SDjS7Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final event in our first annual series \u201cOn Writing,\u201d will feature a conversation between two exceptional writers: USC\u2019s Maggie Nelson, author of\u00a0<i>The Argonauts<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Bluets<\/i>, among many other titles, and novelist and journalist Hari Kunzru, author most recently of\u00a0<i>Red Pill<\/i>. The discussion will focus on Kunzru\u2019s new book, both authors\u2019 experiments with genre, and their thoughts on the role and responsibility of the writer\u2014in the academy and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maggie Nelson<\/strong>, Professor of English at USC and\u00a0author of\u00a0<i>The Argonauts<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Bluets<\/i>, among many other titles.\u00a0She has been described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in\u00a0autobiography,\u00a0art criticism,\u00a0theory,\u00a0scholarship, and\u00a0poetry. Nelson has been the recipient of a 2016\u00a0MacArthur Fellowship,\u00a0a 2012\u00a0Creative Capital\u00a0Literature Fellowship,\u00a0a 2011\u00a0NEA Fellowship\u00a0in Poetry,\u00a0and a 2010\u00a0Guggenheim Fellowship\u00a0in Nonfiction. Other honors include the 2015\u00a0National Book Critics Circle Award\u00a0in Criticism and a 2007\u00a0Andy Warhol Foundation\/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hari Kunzru,<\/strong>\u00a0Born in London, Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels\u00a0<i>The Impressionist, Transmission, My Revolutions, Gods Without Men<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>White Tears<\/i>, as well as a short story collection,\u00a0<i>Noise<\/i>\u00a0and a novella,\u00a0<i>Memory Palace<\/i>. His newest novel\u00a0<i>Red Pill<\/i>\u00a0was\u00a0published in September 2020. He is an honorary fellow of Wadham College Oxford, and has received fellowships from the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy in Berlin. He is the host of the podcast\u00a0<i>Into The Zone.<\/i>\u00a0He lives in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-5-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-controls=\"section-1-5-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Writing Across Media<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-5-tZ9VtAF5w9\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-5-tZ9VtAF5w9\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>March 10, 2021, 12pm-1:30pm<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EEH1487YFm4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJcodeqqqzsjGtdHyJMa83QbqYhN0r8bEq6n%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s media landscape is increasingly digital, offering writers the chance to experiment with both the composition and the presentation of our work. \u00a0This panel discussion will explore the influence and effects of technology on the ways we approach our craft. We will consider a variety of issues: how writing can be presented and enlarged in a digital landscape; the use of the digital as creative space, inspiring forms of composition; and the development of written pieces that are not entirely text-based but also incorporate other media and disciplines. What does writing look like when it involves more than words? The panel will be followed by a group discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Hernandez, Professor of Professional Practice (USC Annenberg)<\/li>\n<li>M.G. Lord, Associate Professor of the Practice of English (USC)<\/li>\n<li>Nooshin Rostami, Adjunct Assistant Professor (USC SCA)<\/li>\n<li>Donna Spruijt-Metz, Research Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (USC Dornsife)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-6-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-controls=\"section-1-6-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Writing as Collaboration<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-6-tZ9VtAF5w9\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-6-tZ9VtAF5w9\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>February 18, 2021, 10am\u201311:30am<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/OxjwxpmVWg8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the act of writing usually occurs in isolation, the process by which we write is often collaborative, sometimes in unacknowledged ways. What about our process changes if we think of writing as a \u201cteam sport?\u201d This panel will address writing as a collaborative act. Panelists will speak on topics including co-authored articles and monographs, writer-editor relationships, and sharing materials in writing groups. This will be followed by a Q&amp;A session in which attendees will have a chance to discuss their own experiences of thinking and writing collaboratively, as well as the advantages and challenges this presents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><strong>Lorraine Daston<\/strong>, Director Emerita, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin and\u00a0<strong>Peter Galison<\/strong>,\u00a0Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and of Physics, Harvard University<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"e2ma-style\"><strong>Percival Everett<\/strong>,\u00a0Distinguished Professor of English, University of Southern California and\u00a0<\/span><strong>Fiona McCrae<\/strong>,\u00a0Publisher and Director, Graywolf Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-7-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-controls=\"section-1-7-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">The Shape of Writing: Thinking like an Editor<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-7-tZ9VtAF5w9\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-7-tZ9VtAF5w9\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>November 4, 2020, 12pm-1:30pm<\/strong> \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MzuqTLXvNpM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJMsceihrz8rGtFKvtANZEmfBG2_48ckw6FE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How can we read our writing with an editor\u2019s eye? What is the nature of the editor\/author relationship, and how might it evolve? How can thinking like an editor help us better \u201cpitch\u201d our writing to the readers we hope to reach? In this event, we will hear from editors about how they read and their experience working with authors. We will hear from writers about how editors help them hone and shape their work. Those who work both sides will discuss how their editorial habits influence the writing they do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Sewell Chan (op-ed,\u00a0<em>LA Times<\/em>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Deborah Friedell (reviews,\u00a0<em>London Review of Books<\/em>)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Kim Robinson (University of California Press)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Tracy Sherrod (Amistad, HarperCollins)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">David Ulin (USC, English)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-8-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-controls=\"section-1-8-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">The Range of Writing: Forms and Styles<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-8-tZ9VtAF5w9\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-8-tZ9VtAF5w9\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>October 14, 2020, 12pm-1:30pm<\/strong>\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5-R4cHo1S8s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/usc.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJEqcOqtqjktEt09IoNvjCIB4jJtgx76LvvE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The style of academic writing has evolved greatly in recent years, becoming more personal and stylistic in a variety of ways. In this event, we will discuss the broad range of forms and styles of writing available to us as academics: from so-called \u201cscholarly writing,\u201d to journalistic endeavors, such as reviews and op-eds; to fiction, memoir, and the personal essay. Do we, or do we want to, see lines of influence among these forms? How do they infiltrate or stand in conversation with our academic work? Participants will include colleagues and others who work across these platforms, and the event will be generative, featuring opportunities for attendees to discuss and brainstorm potential work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Leo Braudy (USC, English)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Sarah Knott (University of Indiana, History)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Josh Kun (USC, Annenberg)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Amitava Kumar (Vassar College, English)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Karen Tongson (USC,\u00a0English, Gender &amp; Sexuality\u00a0Studies,\u00a0and American Studies &amp; Ethnicity)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-9-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-controls=\"section-1-9-tZ9VtAF5w9\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">The Practice of Writing<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-9-tZ9VtAF5w9\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-9-tZ9VtAF5w9\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p>September 16, 2020, 12pm\u20131:30pm\u00a0 | \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKRp7N8cAC8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RECORDING<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to have a writing \u201chabit\u201d? Can writing be a practice\u2014like a sport, or a dance? Does it require muscle memory? All writers, after all, are different, and no two writers\u2019 processes are the same. So, what do different \u201cpractices\u201d of writing look like, especially during the academic semester, when other pressures can\u2019t but intervene? In this broad-based group conversation, we will address these questions, beginning with a panel discussion featuring a range of colleagues, then moving into a broader discussion among the group. How do you write? We want to know. We also want to think about what comes next \u2013 the writing itself. To facilitate, that, attendees will have the opportunity to coordinate with others at this event to develop writing groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Luis Alfaro (USC, School of Dramatic Arts)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Aimee Bender (USC, Creative Writing)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Deborah Harkness (USC, History)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Viet Nguyen (USC, English and American Studies and Ethnicity)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"e2ma-style\">Nayan Shah (USC, American Studies and Ethnicity)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p style=\"text-align: center; 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