For registration information about the Inprint Educators Institute, email info@inprinthouston.org, scroll below to see the seminar options. We also encourage you to check out Common Ground which takes place at The Honors College. University of Houston, July 7 – 14, 2023, click here for more information and to register. 

Option A
Outcasts, Scapegoats, and Fallen Heroes: Can They Help Us Make the World a Better Place?
Led by Dr. Bill Monroe

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BILL MONROE recently retired from the University of Houston where he was professor of English and O’Connor Abendshein Professor and Dean of the Honors College. He earned a B.A. with Highest Honors, Special Honors in English, at the University of Texas and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. After completing an M.A. in English, also at UT, he worked as managing editor of The Liberty Vindicator, a newspaper in East Texas, taught at the Kashmere, Sharpstown, and Waltrip campuses of Houston Community College, and returned to graduate school for a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.

For over 30 years Dr. Monroe has participated as both director and seminar leader in local teachers institutes. The new Inprint Educators Institute (IEI), like the Houston Teachers Institute and the Common Ground Teachers Institute, is based on the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute model. It will bring together faculty, secondary school teachers, and other educators; IEI will focus on writing and literature as intellectual, developmental, and social resources for both teachers and students.

Dr. Monroe is the founding director of Medicine and Society, a program for those who wish to explore issues of health and health care through academic courses, research, fieldwork, internships, conferences, and keynote lectures. He is also the founding president of the University of Houston Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and serves as president of the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of Greater Houston. He has led learning abroad travel to Israel and Palestine, Greece, Rome, Turkey, England, Scotland, Ireland, Egypt, Jordan, and Northern and Eastern Europe. In 2004 Dr. Monroe was honored with the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award and was twice nominated by the University for a state-wide Minnie Stevens Piper Professor award. He is presently working on a manuscript entitled The Vocation of Affliction: Flannery O’Connor and the Myth of Mastery.

Option B
Enabled with the Winning Vision: The Undervalued, Underserved, and Underestimated in American Literature
Led by Dr. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory

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DR. ELIZABETH BROWN-GUILLORY has added knowledge to two disciplines, English and theatre, during her academic career at four universities: University of South Carolina—Upstate, Dillard University, University of Houston (UH), and Texas Southern University, where she is currently serving as Distinguished Professor of Theatre. She has over the course of her career won five teaching excellence awards, published four books, 12 plays, and a number of seminal essays in refereed journals as well as delivered over 200 lectures nationally and internationally. She is a leading scholar in black women’s theatre and has taught courses in African American literature, world dramatic literatures, playwriting, and women’s literature. Additionally, she has written, directed, and produced plays for 40 years. In the area of service, she has held national and regional offices, including serving as the president of Phi Kappa Phi (Chapter 41), president and vice president of the South Central Modern Language Association, and delegate assembly member of the Modern Language Association. Dr. Brown-Guillory seeks to transform (heal) lives with her teaching and writing.

Option C
The Mosaic of Memory and Lyric Form
Led by Dr. Robin Davidson

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ROBIN DAVIDSON is the author of the poetry collections Luminous Other, recipient of Ashland Poetry Press’s 2012 Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, Kneeling in the Dojo, City that Ripens on the Tree of the World, and most recently, Mrs. Schmetterling (Arrowsmith Press, 2021), and editor of Houston’s Favorite Poems, a citywide anthology modeled on Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project. A Fulbright scholar at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland and recipient of an NEA fellowship in translation, she is co-translator with Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska of two volumes of Ewa Lipska’s poems from the Polish, The New Century and Dear Ms. Schubert (Princeton University Press, 2021). She is former Houston Poet Laureate and one of three Houston artists supporting Compassionate Houston’s development of a Compassion Through the Arts program. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, Dr. Davidson teaches literature and creative writing as professor emerita of English for the University of Houston Downtown.