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Incarceration, Education, and Social Change: Pitt Students Take "Inside Out" Courses with Prisoners

During the 2017-2018 school year, a group of Pitt students drove from Oakland to SCI Fayette maximum security prison once a week. They were not going there because they had committed crimes, and they were not going there to volunteer—they were going there to learn. More>>

A Generous, Student-Centered Career: Dave Bartholomae's Legacy

I was a few years out of college, employed as a “learning skills specialist” in math and science at Boston University, when a friend in the rhetoric program invited me to a talk about teaching writing. We’d become friends when we both ended up at the CCCCs [Conference on College Composition and Communications] the year before—he was drawn to the conference by his interest in rhetoric as a means for social change, and I, by the fact that it was being held in New Orleans. I’d planned to dip in and out of the conference, and enjoy the city, the music, and the food, but I got hooked on the radical eclecticism enshrined in the conference program. I went to panels on Wittgenstein, on pop culture, on teaching, on liberatory pedagogy, and on science writing. And I returned newly aware of this heterogeneous profession devoted to literacy.

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13 Ways of Looking at Lynn Emanuel

I first met Lynn Emanuel in 1984, that Orwellian year, at a writer’s festival in Brockport, N.Y. She was young, with one slim book to her name. She was smart and kind in her workshop, and I was knocked out by her reading, especially the intensity of her images, and her voice. When I was looking around for a place to study, I wrote directly to her. When I was accepted, she became the first person I knew in Pittsburgh in 1987. More >>

Pitt's J-School: The Pitt News

When students are looking for colleges where they can pursue journalism degrees, they may overlook the University of Pittsburgh, but that would be a mistake. Not only can students learn from faculty who have real-world experience in the field of journalism, but they can also get firsthand experience right on campus.

Enter: The Pitt News. More >>

The Conversation: An Appreciation of Paul Kameen

So much of what delights and troubles youPaul Kameen
Paul Kameen

Happens on a surface

You take for ground.

--John O’Donohue, “For the Unknown Self”

Paul Kameen’s best teaching, he says, comes from lingering. Instead of a one-off transaction where a student gives the answer the instructor wants, Paul probes deeper, stays right there to dialogue with the student about an idea while the rest of the class looks on. He makes each of us feel like partners in an evolving conversation.

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