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Two Pitt Writing Professors Win Chancellor's Distinguished Awards
On receiving awards from the Chancellor this spring, two Pitt English Writing professors feel that the spotlight on Pitt’s English department can inspire their students, as well as underscore the academic theme at the heart of nonfiction writing: curiosity.
Distinguished Professor Jeanne Marie Laskas and Professor Michael Meyer were awarded with the Chancellor’s Distinguished Awards for research and teaching, respectively. <More>
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ChatGPT and Writing Instruction at Pitt
When I was ten, my grandmother worried about my future.
“I’m not sure many people are journalists anymore, love,” she would say. “There are not many jobs left in writing—the robots are probably doing it all. Maybe choose something else.”
This notion concerned me at ten, but now, at twenty, doubly so—she was disturbingly on the nose about the robots, too. <More>
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Putting the W in STEM: Beth Newborg Retires after a Multi-Decade Career
Beth Newborg is Pitt English through and through—from undergrad through master's through PhD comprehensive exams through a 30-plus year faculty career. A published poet, professional communicator, and women's studies scholar and activist, Newborg began as an adjunct and is now retiring from the position of teaching professor. But Newborg, as someone whose entire adult life has been steeped in Pitt's Department of English, has boldly gone where few of her colleagues have gone before: Pitt's Swanson School of Engineering. <More>
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On the Love of Cats and Peter Trachtenberg
At a recent gathering of faculty and students to congratulate Peter Trachtenberg on his retirement, Geeta Kothari and Jeanne Marie Laskas went up to the microphone to give an account of their first encounter with Peter at his MLA job interview in Los Angeles back in 2011. Geeta remarked on how she’d put her foot in her mouth when she awkwardly noted his resemblance or nonresemblance to ‘80s rockstar Rick Springfield. <More>
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Issue 26
Spring / Summer 2023
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