In this hands-on workshop, participants will receive feedback on their public writing pitch in small breakout groups from guest public writers Erin Bartram (historian of 19th-century America, women, and religion), Sarah Scullin (classicist and former managing editor of Eidolon), and Fatima Husain ’17 (managing producer of the sustainability science radio show Possibly, host of MIT Abstracts, and MIT PhD student in Geobiology) as well as Charles Carroll, Assistant Director of the Sheridan Center/Writing Center and Visiting Assistant Professor of History, and Brown University doctoral students Erica Meszaros and Sara Mohr, managing editors of the public scholarship blog The Ratty.

The workshop is open to all Brown University graduate students across disciplines. Preference will be given to participants who attended the first session on February 11. The Zoom meeting information will be distributed to participants the day before the event. Participants will be asked to submit a draft pitch of 2-5 sentences by February 17, noon.

Participants will have the opportunity to ask additional questions about exploring venues to publish public writing and resources available at Brown University as well as to submit pitches for consideration by The Ratty.

This workshop is presented by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities as part of its 21st-Century PhD series and by the Writing Center/Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.

Questions? Please email humanities-institute@brown.edu