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CREECA Lecture Series

The Oakhill Prison Humanities Project: Teaching World Literature Behind Bars

Event Details

Date
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Time
4 p.m.
Location
Description
Since 2005, graduate students and instructional staff from UW-Madison have been leading a series of humanities courses for inmates at the Oakhill Correctional Institution. On this panel discussion, instructors will share their experiences teaching world literature and creative writing, their observations of how the students have developed as readers and as writers, and their assessment of how the Oakhill classroom has fostered their own development as teachers.
Cost
Free

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