Workshop: Creating a Public

Writing to Create a Public

A Workshop with Corey Robin

Duke University faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to participate in a workshop featuring Professor Corey Robin. An active blogger (for his own blog and for the Crooked Timber collective) and writer for such outlets as The Nation, The London Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, and Boston Review, Robin will talk about strategies for reshaping scholarly work for a non-specialist audience and using the skills and insights developed through academic research to create and animate public discussion. Attendees should come prepared to discuss their own (informal) proposals for public-focused writing projects.

Helpful Advance Reading

How Intellectuals Create a Public, The Chronicle Review (January 22, 2016), B10-14

Co-sponsored by the Duke University Graduate School, the Faculty Write Program, the Thompson Writing Program, and the Forum for Scholars and Publics.