How I Write with Paula Moya

"How I Write" is a series of conversations with faculty and other advanced writers to explore the nuts and bolts, pleasures and pains, of all types of writing. While content is always an issue, the conversation will primarily focus on work styles, such as where, when, and how a writer composes, allowing us to examine habits, idiosyncrasies, techniques, trade secrets, hidden anxieties, and delights. We will discuss how a writer generates ideas, sustains large-scale projects, combines research with composition, overcomes various impediments and

blocks, and cultivates stylistic innovations. Writing communities share experiences (even bad ones), so that all writers can learn and grow, and Stanford is an exceptionally rich community for gaining such insights.

Paula Moya is the director of the undergraduate program of CSRE. She writes on Chicana/o culture and literature, minority and feminist theory, and American literature. Her books include Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles and Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism with Michael Hames-Garcia.