UnMapping is a 3-year project celebrating and advancing the role of literature and story in truth-telling and social change. Our radical approach means everyone enters UnMapping’s alternative learning spaces as both students and teachers valued for the unique contributions they bring.

PHOTO: NORMAN CAIN BY DEJAH MCINTOSH

IN CONVERSATION

UnMapping Fellow, Taryn Flaherty, and UnMapping Instructors, Lauren Lowe and Carol Richardson McCullough, met with Writers Room staff, Lillian Fenzil, to discuss the overlapping topics of love in Philadelphia, oral storytelling, and intergenerational organizing. 

MEET

THE

UNMAPPERS

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UNMAPPING

FELLOWS

SCHOLARS AND ARTISTS EXPLORING LITERATURE AND CULTURAL TEXTS TO ADVANCE SOCIAL JUSTICE

Project Lead ➝ Valerie Ifill, Department of Performing Arts, Westphal College of Media Arts & Design

EXPERIMENTAL

COURSES

COMMUNITY-BASED COURSES FROM ALL DISCIPLINES ENGAGING IN LOCAL CONTEXTS AND ISSUES

Project Lead Steve Vásquez Dolph, Associate Teaching Professor in Global Studies and Modern Languages & Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

LITERATURE IN
OTHERSPACE

SATELLITES:

REIMAGINING HOW AND WHERE WRITING AND LITERARY STUDY TAKE PLACE

HUMANITIES AT WORK

Project Lead ➝ Elizabeth Kimball, Department of English, University Writing Program, College of Arts & Sciences

SECOND STORY COLLECTIVE

Project Lead ➝ Rachel Wenrick, Writers Room, Arts & Civic Innovation, Office of University & Community Partnerships

PLACE-BASED

PROGRAMMING

CULTURAL EVENTS, TALKS, AND WORKSHOPS CO-CURATED WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Project Lead ➝ Teddy Poneman, Writers Room, Office of University & Community Partnerships