Profile

Margot Browning is Associate Director of the Franke Institute for the Humanities and Lecturer in the College at the University of Chicago. As a graduate student, she studied and trained with Prof. Joseph Williams to teach the UC College course “Academic and Professional Writing.” Co-teaching in this writing course, with other savvy instructors, provided her with invaluable expert guidance for writing her Ph.D. dissertation in History – and for everything she's written since, especially foundation proposals and reports. Writing well is a continuously fascinating puzzle in how people think and communicate successfully. In Browning's undergraduate courses (such as “Mindfulness: Experience and Media”), she introduces students to these pragmatic principles for writing in her feedback to their papers. Overall, she believes that when we write with attention to how people read, we can also comprehend better what other people write – even in different or unfamiliar fields.