Graduate student Matthew Moore shares his personal take on public scholarship
A new WashU program, A&S CREATES, is helping students like Moore share their work beyond traditional audiences. Matthew Moore, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, has a dilemma: The people he writes about are unlikely to read his work. Moore is a first-generation college student from Blythedale, Missouri, a blue-collar town with fewer than […]
Cover revealed for Edward McPherson’s forthcoming book, “Look Out”
Associate Professor of English and Program in Public Scholarship Faculty Affiliate Edward McPherson’s forthcoming book, Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View, will be published by Astra Publishing House on October 21, 2025. Astra recently revealed the cover design by Arsh Raziuddin on Instagram. About Look Out As if Borges and Didion took a […]
Disentangling Leaders: A Review of Jimmy Carter: Rivers & Dreams
Christopher Schaberg
Program in Public Scholarship celebrates a successful year
“When we think of the phrase ‘public scholarship,’ we think of the public and orienting our work away from ourselves,” Margret Grebowicz said during her keynote remarks at the inaugural Public Scholarship Symposium last month. “But the greatest value of this kind of work for me has been how it forces me to figure out […]
Q&A: Gabrielle Kirilloff on how games shape our culture
In March 2024, Washington University Assistant Professor of English Gabrielle Kirilloff launched an ongoing column for Forbes covering the intersection of video games with real-world issues. Kirilloff’s column came to fruition thanks to support from the Program in Public Scholarship (PPS), whose mission is to help WashU faculty translate their research and expertise for public audiences. We caught up with Kirilloff […]
Inaugural recipients of the Public Scholarship Prize
The Program in Public Scholarship is pleased to announce the two inaugural recipients of the Arts & Sciences Public Scholarship Prize: Dr. Rebecca J. Lester (Anthropology), for her trade book on dissociative identity disorder, Coming Undone: One Woman, Twelve Personalities, and the Myth at the Heart of ‘Mental Health’ and Dr. Abram Van Engen (English), for work to expand and amplify his […]
Strategic Plan initiative staff members make valuable connections at AWP Conference
If the first year of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan was about building new programs from within, Year Two has focused on expanding their impact outward. Having spent 2023 building up their reputations on Washington University’s campus, representatives from two of the Strategic Plan’s strategic initiatives visited the 2024 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair this February […]
Five Public Scholarship highlights from 2023
In 2023, the Program in Public Scholarship began its work of connecting WashU faculty with media outlets to share their academic expertise with broad, general audiences. The Program assisted faculty with conceiving, pitching, and refining articles for publication. Among the dozens of articles published this year through the Program in Public Scholarship, here is a selection of five […]