The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning is excited to announce its spring workshop series. All events are offered free of charge and will take place on Zoom. Click here to register to attend one or more of the events (or paste this link in your browser: https://forms.gle/8s3TfePaE2B9aBkT9)! Registered participants will receive a Zoom link 1-2 days before each event. **Presenter biographies follow below.**
Friday, March 21, 3-4pm
Celebrating Peter Elbow: An Open Forum for Stories, Tributes, and Remembrances
Coordinated by Nate Mickelson
Friday, April 25, 3-4pm
Heart-Centered Teaching in Higher Ed: Social Emotional Learning, Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered Instructional Practices
Led by Kelan Koning
Friday, May 16, 3-4pm
Nature as Refuge and Resistance: a generative writing workshop
Led by Libby Falk Jones
Presenter Biographies:
Nate Mickelson teaches expository writing at New York University. He currently serves as Chair of AEPL. Nate’s scholarly writing has appeared in College Teaching, Pedagogy, Criticism, and Journal of Modern Literature, among other publications. He co-organized AEPL’s 2017, 2020, and 2024 summer conferences.
Kelan Koning (she/her) is a full-time lecturer in the Department of English at Cal State University, Northridge. She has joyfully served marginalized and underrepresented students on campus for nearly 30 years through her work with Chicana and Chicano Studies, the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), and her first-year writing courses. She leads workshops across the state and country on Trauma-Informed, Healing-Centered Pedagogy, ePortfolios, and equitable assessment. Her scholarship, including her most recent publication, "Mad Lyrics: Toward an Embodied, Culturally Responsive Pedagogy of Care in Academia," centers heart-centered, inclusive teaching practices.
Libby Falk Jones is a life-long writer of poems, stories, and essays, and former chair of AEPL. She’s authored or co-authored four books of poems, and her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than 30 journals and anthologies. A new collection of her poems and photographs, Enchanting the Ordinary, is due out in April (Broadstone). She’s a member of Bluegrass Writers Studio (Eastern Kentucky University) and a past president of Kentucky State Poetry Society. You can learn more about Libby’s writing, photography, and teaching at https://www.libbyfalkjones.com/.
Nate MickelsonClinical Associate Professor
Director of Faculty Development
Expository Writing Program
New York University
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