Lemle Center Presentation: Author Michelle Boyd

The Lemle Center for Teaching and Scholarship invites faculty to Michelle Boyd's presentation about her new book, Becoming the Writer You Already Are, on Friday March 31 at 4:30 p.m. in Studio C. 

Michelle Boyd, Ph.D. is the founder of Inkwell Academic Writing Retreats and will speak about the origins and larger aims of her new book and conclude with a reflective exercise that faculty could use to explore aspects of their writing process.

As an award-winning writer and a former tenured faculty member, Michelle spent the first part of her career studying the political significance of black racial identity. In 2008, her book Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville won a Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association. After earning tenure, Michelle focused her research and service on helping scholars better understand their writing process. In 2012 she cofounded and coached a dissertation writing retreat for graduate students studying race and ethnicity. Three years later she left academia and founded InkWell, where she specializes in helping stuck, scared scholars free themselves from fear and build a satisfying, sustainable writing practice.

Please RSVP to pbratton@oberlin.edu

Co-sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Comparative American Studies.