By Adam Koehler, Manhattan College When I started my position at Manhattan College, I was hired to play three roles: Assistant Professor of English, Director of Composition, and Director of the Writing Center. I was fresh out of my PhD at UW – Madison and when I got to Manhattan I was excited. Of course […]
By Chris Earle Chris is a PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests are in intercultural rhetoric and the political and ethical dimensions of rhetoric and writing. He was a tutor in the UW-Madison Writing Center during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years. Veronica, a dissertator from the […]
By Jessie Gurd Jessie Gurd is a fourth-year PhD student in Literary Studies and has been an instructor at the Writing Center since the Fall of 2012. Jessie studies early modern English drama; her work focuses on ecocriticism, geography, and spatial theory. A run, whether on a lakeside path or a treadmill, is not an […]
By Jessie Reeder. Jessie was an instructor in the UW-Madison Writing Center from 2010-2013. Last year (2012-2013) she served as TA Assistant Director. She can’t wait to return to work in the Writing Center soon, but this semester she’s fortunate to be on a research fellowship as she finishes her dissertation (!!!). This is not […]
By Brad Hughes. Brad Hughes is the director of the Writing Center and director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is delighted to be starting his 30th year directing the Writing Center. Welcome to a new academic year at UW-Madison’s Writing Center! With contributions from my wonderful colleagues, I’d like […]
By Jessie Reeder. Jessie is the TA Assistant Director of the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also a dissertator in literary studies, focusing on 19th century British Literature and Latin American revolution. Have you ever studied a foreign language? If you’re like most American students, you took a few years in high […]
Nancy Reddy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include composition pedagogy, literacy studies, and extracurricular writing groups. This is her first year with the UW-Madison Writing Center. In one of my first shifts as a new writing instructor tutor this past fall, I found myself […]
By Kristiane Stapleton Kristiane Stapleton is the 2012-2013 TA Coordinator of Writing Center Outreach. She is also writing her dissertation in Literary Studies, working on early modern women writers and the visual rhetorics for authorship they construct. Before I really get going, I’d like to offer a little bit of background on the Outreach program […]
By John Bradley. John Bradley is Assistant Director of the Writing Studio and Senior Lecturer in English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Before joining Vanderbilt’s faculty this fall, John was the 2011-2012 Interim Associate Director of the UW-Madison Writing Center, having also worked as a tutor there for many years as he finished his […]
By Jessie Reeder Jessie is the TA Assistant Director of the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also a dissertator in literary studies, focusing on 19th century British Literature and Latin American revolution. Every instructor in our Writing Center knows the blue record sheets we stock. They provide a simple grid for […]
