Keynote Speaker
Dr.
Sondra Perl, Professor of English, Lehman College, CUNY
An acclaimed
teacher, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a founding director of the New York City
Writing Project at Lehman College, Dr. Perl has been leading writing
workshops in North America and Europe for close to three decades. In 1996,
she received the Professor of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching. Her books include Through Teachers'
Eyes: Portraits of Writing Teachers at Work, Landmark Essays on
Writing Process, Felt Sense: Writing with the Body, Writing
True: The Art and Craft of Creative Nonfiction (with Mimi Schwartz)
and On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I Was Taught to Hate, a memoir
about her work with teachers in Austria. Over the past three years, Dr.
Perl has been leading week-long writing workshops at the Esalen Institute
in Big Sur and at the Hollyhock Institute in British Columbia. She is
eager to return to California to talk with writing center colleagues and
others in the world of composition and rhetoric about the many ways
writing can transform our lives. Sondra
will discuss her struggles and successes teaching in Austria which she has
written about in her memoir, On Austrian Soil: Teaching Those I was
Taught to Hate.
