Academic Storytelling: Identifying a pervasive pattern in academic discourse and using it in our teaching and writing.

In this seminar, Sarah will share a well-established ‘storytelling’ pattern found in many texts, present her research on how this pattern is used in different disciplines and discuss how this might be applied in teaching or one’s own writing process. This will be an interactive seminar, and participants will be asked to write one (very short) story, using a task adapted from Julian Edge. Dr. Sarah Haas has been working with writers for over 30 years, teaching in Japan, the UK, Denmark, the US, and the Benelux countries. She currently works part time as a teaching fellow at Ghent and Copenhagen Universities, alongside starting up her own small business, where she works with and for writers, running writers’ workshops, writers’ groups, and guided writing retreats, and creating research-based tools for helping writers develop their skills, productivity, self-efficacy, and identities as writers.