The Center for Writing and Learning

About the Center
The Center for Writing and Learning offers support and feedback on all types of written and spoken communication for the students, staff, and faculty at The Cooper Union. Writing Associates are experienced classroom instructors with advanced degrees and a special interest in reading and writing pedagogy. The Center's mission is to improve student learning across the curriculum and to support faculty in the teaching of reading and writing.

Center for Writing and Learning Journal

The Center for Writing & Learning Journal is a space for the Cooper Union community to share ideas and work related to our disciplinary and educational practices. We all know how difficult it can be to find time to come together to discuss what we’re doing in our classrooms, studios, and labs. Each issue of the journal offers a platform for discussion, with writing, images, and interviews centered on issues we all face.

The first issue considers the importance of process in the context of generative AI, with contributors from across the college thinking through the steps we take as we create something—designs, artwork, scholarship, and more. What do we and our students gain from drafting and editing, sketching and dreaming, designing and experimenting, and what do we lose when we cede parts of those processes to artificial intelligence?



Director
Kit Nicholls (kit.nicholls@cooper.edu) received a Ph.D. in English at New York University and a B.A. in creative writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Syllabus: The Remarkable, Unremarkable Document That Changes Everything, co-authored with William Germano (Princeton University Press, 2020). His essays have appeared in venues such as European Romantic Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Psyche.

Associate Director
John Lundberg (john.lundberg@cooper.edu) is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University who holds a BA in English from The College of William and Mary, an MA in English from FSU, and an MFA in creative writing from The University of Virginia. He has extensive experience teaching composition, creative writing, and business writing.

Design Director
Inessa Shkolnikov (inessa.shkolnikov@cooper.edu) received her BFA in Communication Design from Parsons in New York. She is the design director for The Cooper Union.