Drake faculty members are invited to participate in an intensive Faculty Writing Group (FWG) focused on using the summer effectively for our scholarship. We will meet on Wednesday, May 22, from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. and Friday, May 31, from 1–4 p.m. The FWG will be co-facilitated by Nate Holdren (LPS) and En Li (History). Our goal will be to help set ourselves up to make progress on our scholarship over the summer. We will read Joli Jensen’s book Write No Matter What and discuss it to the degree that participants find it useful. The session will also include discussion/workshop of the faculty members’ own scholarship and on-site writing time.

This writing group is generously supported by a Materials and Services Support Grant from the Center for the Humanities and a Faculty Collaborative Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences. There are spots for ten faculty participants. Should more than ten individuals express interest, priority shall be given to 1) those who actively participated in the previous Faculty Writing Groups, 2) tenure-track faculty who are not yet tenured, 3) faculty who are members of groups under-represented, and 4) faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Participants who attend both sessions will receive a stipend of $150. Light lunches will be provided for the May 31 session.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Kayla Jenkins at kayla.jenkins@drake.edu by Wednesday, May 1. 

If you have questions, please contact the co-facilitators of the summer FWG, Nate Holdren at nate.holdren@drake.edu and En Li at en.li@drake.edu.

En Li, Assistant Professor of History