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Adam Pellegrini Adam Pellegrini holds a BA from Binghamton University and an MFA from the University of Maryland, where he served as assistant director of the Writing Center and taught academic and creative writing. He currently teaches in Lehman's College Now program and Baruch's Writing Center. He is also poetry editor for Sakura Review. Specialties: American literature, British literature, fiction, grammar, job search materials, Lit Hum, MLA style, personal statements and application essays, poetry, thesis writing, literary non-fiction Alexander Landfair Alexander holds a MFA in writing from Columbia and a BA in religious studies from the University of Florida. As a UWP instructor, a corporate writing consultant, and a magazine editor, he has experience working closely with students and professionals at all stages in their development as writers. Specialties: business & professional writing, ESL, fiction, grammar, job search materials, poetry, publishing, University Writing, long projects, literary non-fiction, documentation styles Allen Durgin After graduating summa cum laude from the University of Virginia, Allen Durgin worked as a professional actor in New York for nearly ten years before returning to academia. Currently a lecturer at Baruch College and a doctoral candidate in English at The Graduate Center--City University of New York, Allen has spent the better part of a decade teaching writing and literature to a wide range of undergraduate and graduate students. He has experience working with students from a variety of disciplines, from public policy to law, from anthropology to economics. He particularly enjoys working with master's students and doctoral candidates on their theses and dissertations. Specialties: American literature, British literature, comparative literature, dissertation writing, fiction, film, grammar, job search materials, linguistics, Lit Hum, MLA style, personal statements and application essays, philosophy, poetry, political science, theatre, thesis writing, University Writing, long projects, literary non-fiction, American studies, women and gender studies Carolyn Wilsey Carolyn holds a BA in American literature from Middlebury College and an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. In addition to her work at Columbia, she is a writing consultant at two other colleges in Manhattan. Her classroom instruction experience includes teaching first-year composition and leading an ongoing creative writing workshop. Prior to working in education full-time, Carolyn held posts at a wide variety of magazines and newspapers. Her publication credits include Publishers Weekly and NBC's The Feast, and she has evaluated stories for Esquire, Woman's Day, Swink, Open City's Rofihe Trophy, and the Vilcek Foundation's 2011 Literature Prize. She continues to write freelance journalistic pieces on occasion, serves as a reader for an annual fiction contest, and is the managing editor of the literary site Anderbo.com. Specialties: American literature, fiction, journalism, MLA style, Web writing, thesis writing Cynthia-Marie O'Brien As an assistant director of the Writing Center, Cynthia-Marie O'Brien (MFA, Columbia University; BA, Dartmouth College) aims to promote sustainable writing communities, foster cross-cultural and interdisciplinary learning, and enable all writers to take part in language as an evolving phenomenon. She has mentored students from more than twenty countries and numerous linguistic backgrounds. Cynthia-Marie has taught academic and creative writing at the undergraduate and graduate level in the United States and Europe; her writing center philosophy evolves from experiences working in four writing centers. Her scholarly and writing interests include collective memory and the law, concepts of home, narratives of exile, the representation of mental illness in popular culture, trends in higher education, the writing center as hub of learning transfer, and literary translation. She especially enjoys working with students to craft application materials, brainstorm, structure, or revise long projects, and negotiate the integration or adaptation of writing styles from other languages to the academic conventions of American English. Cynthia-Marie writes lyric essays, biographies of place, and literary criticism. She received a notable citation in Best American Essays 2011. Her writing appears in Bellevue Literary Review, Killing the Buddha, Publishers Weekly, Stonefence Review, and Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, where she is a contributing editor. Specialties: American literature, APA style, British literature, business & professional writing, Chicago (CMS) style, comparative literature, dissertation writing, education, ESL, fiction, job search materials, journalism, law, MLA style, personal statements and application essays, proposal & grant writing, science writing, thesis writing, University Writing, long projects, literary non-fiction, English as a second language, American studies Iris Cushing Iris Cushing is a poet and editor residing in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and is a founding editor of Argos Books, an independent poetry press. In 2011, she was a writer-in-residence at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, her former home. Her poems and criticism can be found in the Boston Review, Bomblog, Two Serious Ladies, and Artinfo, among other places. Specialties: American literature, art history, business & professional writing, comparative literature, ESL, grammar, MLA style, web writing, music, poetry, proposal & grant writing, publishing, Spanish, theology, American studies, women and gender studies Jason Takayuki Ueda Jason Takayuki Ueda teaches composition at Hunter College and Empire State College. His interests include modern and contemporary poetry, Japanese medieval history, labor studies, media and culture, cooking, and bike riding. Jason received a BA from Hunter College and an MFA in poetry from The New School. Specialties: American literature, Art Hum, British literature, comparative literature, East Asian studies, grammar, Lit Hum, MLA style, personal statements and application essays, poetry, University Writing, long projects, American studies Katie McIntyre Katie McIntyre graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in philosophy and a minor in English and is currently a fifth-year PhD student in the Philosophy Department at Columbia, where she earned her MPhil in 2011. Her focus is on 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy, though she has served as a TA for a variety of courses in the Philosophy Department, most with a heavy emphasis on paper writing. Specialties: academic paper writing in the humanities, CC, grant and proposal writing, personal statements. Kirkwood Adams Kirkwood Adams earned his MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Currently he teaches composition at the College of Staten Island. He has a BFA from Emerson College in writing and literature. While living in Boston, Kirkwood taught in several capacities, including as a docent at the Museum of Fine Arts. He writes poems and makes collages. Specialties: American literature, art history, Art Hum, British literature, Lit Hum, poetry, theatre Linh An Linh An is a doctoral student at UCLA. Her dissertation research is on Chinese American women who provide caregiving to a family member who has been diagnosed with a mental illness. She also works with the New York State Psychiatric Institute on research that aims to develop culturally competent treatment models for limited English proficiency patients. Linh has served as a TA for various introductory anthropology courses and has taught upper-division cultural anthropology courses at UCLA. Specialties: anthropology, proposal & grant writing, thesis writing Matthew Rossi Matthew Rossi is a graduate of Columbia's MFA Writing Program, where he focused on fiction. Before coming to Columbia, Matthew worked for a theater company that specialized in collaboratively made work. As a result, he loves the process of brainstorming to helping students discover new pathways for their ideas. He has published work in NY Tyrant magazine and Mudlark, and is currently at work on his first novel. Specialties: American literature, art history, astronomy, Chicago (CMS) style, fiction, grammar, medicine & nursing, University Writing, literary non-fiction Max Uphaus Max Uphaus is a fourth-year PhD student in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. He completed his BA in English at the College of William & Mary and his MA in literature at American University, where he also worked in the Writing Center. He has taught in the University Writing Program at Columbia for a year. Max is working on a dissertation on modernist British literature and the sea; his first article, on a short story by James Joyce, is being prepared for publication. Specialties: British literature, history, MLA style, personal statements and application essays, University Writing, literary analysis Phoebe Collins Phoebe Collins holds an MA in English literature from Saint Louis University and BA in cultural studies from SUNY Empire State College. She taught undergraduate English at Saint Louis University, and ESL in France, Spain, and Korea. She has worked as an acquisitions editor for Liguori Publications and the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency, edited a nursing journal for Sage Publications, and published articles in Ambassador Media, Aishti Magazine, Divine Wine, and Cinematheque, as well as contributing writer for two non-fiction books. Specialties: American literature, Art Hum, British literature, Business & professional writing, ESL, Fiction, Film, Grammar, Job search materials, Lit Hum, Medicine & nursing, Personal statements, Publishing, Theatre, Thesis writing, Long projects, Literary non-fiction Sue Mendelsohn Sue Mendelsohn is the Writing Center's director. She has more than a decade of writing consulting experience. She regularly presents her research on multimodal composing, visual rhetoric, and composition history at national conferences and has published articles on writing center theory and administration. In addition to her own scholarly work, Sue teaches University Writing. She earned her PhD in English with a specialization in rhetoric and composition from the University of Texas at Austin. Specialties: American literature, APA style, business & professional writing, job search materials, MLA style, multimedia composing, personal statements, University Writing. Tejan Waszak In addition to working as a writing consultant, Tejan Waszak has taught at the university and high school level for six years. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Long Island University and a BA in journalism from Hunter College with a minor in theatre. In her spare time, she enjoys performing in community theater productions. She is currently working on a book of poetry and short stories. Specialties: African-American studies, Caribbean studies, gender studies, American literature, ESL, fiction, film, journalism, personal statements, poetry, theatre, religious studies, Literary non-fiction, mixed-media projects |
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