Writing in Times of Crisis is a project that frames Dr. Amir Kalan鈥檚 recent research, starting from August 2020. Writing in Times of Crisis explores writers鈥� experiences with writing during periods of calamity, instability, uncertainty, and lack of literacy resources. The project contains multiple studies of people who engage with writing and publishing in times of trauma and tragedy. Examples of these studies include: Teaching and learning writing during pandemics; refugees鈥� engagement with writing in additional languages; minoritized populations鈥� publishing practices; and exiled writers鈥� multilingual textual performances. Dr. Kalan studies these writing practices as cases that highlight the nature of writing as a form of resistance and a means of survival. Moreover, in this project, Dr. Kalan showcases examples of writing in periods of crisis to argue that despite the orthodox Western view of writing as rhetorical craftsmanship, most organic forms of writing are personal, diverse, cultural, ideological, and thus genre-fluid.
Principal Investigator:Amir Kalan听
amir.kalan [at] mcgill.ca
