John Katunich
Director of the Writing Program
Specialist for Multilingual Writers
katunicj@dickinson.edu
Phone: 717-254-8390
Office: Norman M. Eberly Writing Center,
Waidner-Boyd Lee Spahr Library
I arrived at Dickinson College in 2018 as the Associate Director of the Writing Program and multilingual writer specialist, and from July 2023 I’ve served in the role of Director of the Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center and Writing Program. My teaching experience has been broad and varied: writing center consultant, English teacher abroad, community college composition and ESL teacher, and language teacher educator. Since coming to Dickinson, I’ve found it to be a wonderfully multilingual place where students’ full linguistic repertoires are valued, and in my work as Director I am deeply committed to supporting all students in their development of writing, whether it is in English or in one of the ten world languages that our center supports. As someone who believes that teachers of writing must be writing themselves, some of my recent publications include co-editing (with Jay Goulah) the collection TESOL and Sustainability: Language Teaching into the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-editing (with Noreen Lape) the special issue and digital edited collection The Post-pandemic Writing Center (2023), and contributing to the forthcoming book Intersections of Environmental and Linguistic Justice. Outside of the writing center, you may find me cooking (and eating!) some of the amazing food that I get from Dickinson College Farm CSA box.
Lucy McInerney, PhD
Assistant Director of the Writing Program
mcinernl@dickinson.edu
717-254-8003
Office: Norman M. Eberly Writing Center,
Waidner-Boyd Lee Spahr Library
I joined Dickinson College as the Assistant Director of the Norman M. Eberly Multilingual Writing Center and Writing Program in the fall of 2024. This was a return home for me in many ways, since I graduated with a BA in Classics from Dickinson in 2015, before pursuing an MPhil and then PhD in Classics from the University of Oxford and Brown University respectively. At Brown I managed the Writing Fellows Program, the first of its sort in the country (founded in 1982) and the model on which our Writing Associates are based. I worked in the Writing Center at Dickinson while a student, and have been delighted to return in this new role and discover how the Writing Center has evolved. The core principle here remains one of tutoring through empathy, an attitude that I try to embody in all of my professional roles. When I’m not agonizing over my own writing, you’ll typically find me working with my horse, Mijo, who made the trip with me all the way from Rhode Island to Carlisle!
Carol Wetzel
Coordinator of the Writing Program/Writing Center
wetzelc@dickinson.edu
Phone: (717) 245-1620
Office: Norman M. Eberly Writing Center,
Waidner-Boyd Lee Spahr Library