Embodied Theory: A Writing Workshop with Nora Wendl

The Lamar Dodd School of Art has partnered with the UGA Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, along with the Creative Writing Program, the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, and the UGA Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop (UGA ModSquad), to welcome essayist, artist, and associate professor of architecture at the University of New Mexico Nora Wendl for a Willson Center Distinguished Artist Lecture on March 31 titled “Almost Nothing.” The following day, Wendl leads a writing workshop titled “Embodied Theory” in the Lamar Dodd School of Art Art History Seminar Room N320.

Workshop Details

Autotheory is a way of writing the mind alongside the body. In this writing workshop, we’ll read excerpts of recent nonfiction/autotheory/memoir works by T Fleischmann (Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through, and Syzygy, Beauty), Lars Horn (The Voice of the Fish) and Renee Gladman (Calamities), all of which grapple with the body and its relations: with art, with politics,
with love, with family, with desire, with gender, and with time.

Participants will craft their own micro-autotheories by the end of the workshop, drawing inspiration from the authors we read and from our discussion of their work. No prior writing experience is necessary; workshop space limited to 12 graduate students.