Writing Program Staff

I have served as Director of the Writing Program/Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center since 2009.  As Director, I have developed a Writing Associates (Fellows) Program, transformed a well-established English writing center into a Multilingual Writing Center, administered a three-tiered writing requirement, coordinated a writing-focused faculty development program, and organized the Writing Assessment Project.   My teaching experience includes first-year writing, research writing, writing & wellness, and American literature courses as well as tutor training and composition theory at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.    My most recent projects and publications range from training tutors in emotional intelligence, giving voice to tutors’ useful knowledge through podcasting, and using writing as an intervention in psychotherapy.   Currently, I am finishing an article that theorizes the Multilingual Writing Center as a model for the international writing community. 

I work with Dickinson’s ELL students, teaching courses in writing as well as tutoring in the Writing Center.  I received my B.A. from Westmont College in 1994, and my M.A. from American University in 2004.  For eight years, I taught English as a Second Language to non-native speakers in California, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Italy.  Before coming to Dickinson, I worked at American University’s Writing Center and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.