The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop with Felicia Rose Chavez

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Join the Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas and UIC's First Year Writing Program, as we welcome Felicia Rose Chavez for a virtual workshop.

Workshop: Critique Across Disciplines

Workshop Description:

Critique is an intricate skill that necessitates our attention, from one-on-one thesis advising to peer review exercises, small group work, and large group workshop. Imagine if we empowered students to take charge of their writing by teaching them professional managerial practices, those
real-life skills that best serve long-term, collaborative projects. By training students in how to summarize their projects, articulate constructive questions, and moderate their own feedback sessions, we acknowledge their accountability. Students go on to claim ownership of not only
their work, but their working relationships with professors and peers. This 90-minute session offers 20 specific, practical take-aways to re-conceptualize critique across academic disciplines.

About Felicia Rose Chavez:

Felicia Rose Chavez is an award-winning educator with an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. She is author of The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom and co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT with Willie Perdomo and Jose Olivarez. Felicia’s teaching career began in Chicago, where she served as Program Director to Young Chicago Authors and founded GirlSpeak, a feminist webzine for high school students. She went on to teach writing at the University of New Mexico, where she was distinguished as the Most Innovative Instructor of the Year, the University of Iowa, where she was distinguished as the Outstanding Instructor of the Year, and Colorado College, where she received the Theodore Roosevelt Collins Outstanding Faculty Award. Her creative scholarship earned her a Ronald E. McNair Fellowship, a University of Iowa Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, a Riley Scholar Fellowship, and a Hadley Creatives Fellowship. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, she currently serves as the Creativity and Innovation Scholar-in-Residence at Colorado College. For more information about The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop, and to access a multi-genre compilation of contemporary writers of color and progressive online publishing platforms, please visit www.antiracistworkshop.com.