Schedule of Sessions

• January 23, 2025 3:00 PM to 6:30 PM ET
• January 24, 2025 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM ET
• January 25, 2025 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM ET
• January 26, 2025 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET

Leadership Team

Participants

Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Chicago Theological Seminary
Christine Hong, Columbia Theological Seminary
Ella Johnson, Saint Ambrose University 
Jesse Mann, Drew University
R. Jeney Park-Hearn, Portland Seminary
Zachary Wooten, West Chester University
Aizaiah Yong, Claremont School of Theology

The Journal on Teaching (JoT) is an annual peer-reviewed journal from the The Wabash Center. Each issue is theme driven and includes various forms of media—such as articles, poetry, visual art, videos of performing arts, and music—in service to critical reflection on teaching. As we aim to expand the traditional boundaries of scholarly writing, we remain focused on the scholarship of teaching in the fields of religious and theological studies, in both undergraduate and graduate educational contexts.

Description of JoT Writing Colloquy

The JoT Writing Colloquy, scheduled for January 23-26, 2025. Participants in this colloquy will be working towards pieces to be included in the 2026 issue on the theme of “Spirit.”

The writing colloquy is  a combination of plenary sessions, small group interactions, individual instruction and workshopping of in-process writing. All participants commit to contributing a piece to be submitted by August 1, 2025. Participants in the JoT Writing Colloquy will receive a stipend in the amount of $1500 plus up to ten hours of writing coaching February through July.

Goals

• To refine the emerging collaborative peer review process for JoT;
• To create conversation space for scholars who yearn for collaboration as they write to share their knowledges or personal experiences;
• To develop voices of scholars for more authentic expression of their knowledges and voices;
• To expand the genre of scholarly writing into multimodal expressions;
• To support writers as they play with accessible writing genres for a broader audience through creative nonfiction, blogs, op-eds, and memoir, etc.;
• To liberate the scholarly voice for access by a wider audience in society
• To unlearn the worst academic habits, free the creative spirit, structure your work more effectively, and speak on the page in a truer, more engaging voice.