Embodied Writing — Mary Y. Yang

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Workshop | November 12, 2025Embodied Writing: Activating Latent Characters through Textual Sites

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

As part of my Artist-Writer in Residence at Johns Hopkins Univesity’s University Writing Program, I hosted a workshop with students and faculty on embodied writing. The workshop explored the body as a site for generating new textual forms that challenge traditional narrative, linguistic, and typographic conventions. Through movement, gesture, and somatic awareness, participants created writing that emerges from physical experience rather than purely cognitive processes.

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