Dr. Rebecca Lorimer Leonard’s talk, “Writing on the Move: Literacy Relays in the Lives of Multilingual Migrants” will take place on Thursday, November 14th, 2019 at 4:30 in Downy House Lounge as the English Department’s annual lecture.

The Writing Workshop invites the Wesleyan community to sit down to talk with Dr. Lorimer Leonard about her talk, her book, and her work on multilingual writers, language diversity, and writing pedagogy on Friday, November 15th from 9:30 -10:30 am in Shapiro 102. Light refreshments provided. Please RSVP here. (up to 20 participants in total).

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Dr. Rebecca Lorimer Leonard is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on language diversity, writing pedagogy, and research methods. Her book Writing on the Move: Migrant Women and the Value of Literacy (University of Pittsburgh Press) won the 2019 Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

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