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.
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