In this episode, we talk with Sue (she/her), a Ph.D. candidate from the Department of History, who talks us through a creative approach to writing academically, and how working in different genres and languages helps her avoid writer’s block. Listen in to hear more. 

Find out more about the material and support mentioned in this episode:

• Dramatists Guild of America – an American trade guild for writers in theatre and musical theatre
• Red Poppies – Alai (Houghton Mifflin, 2002; accessible via UW Libraries)
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008; accessible via ⁠UW Libraries⁠)
• “How Writing Leads to Thinking” – Lynn Hunt (in Perspectives on History, Feb. 2010)
• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity – Judith Butler (Routledge Classics, 2006 [1999].

An audio transcript for this episode available here.