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Meet the Staff
Tracy Santa, Director
Tracy Santa received BA and MA degrees from San Francisco State in English/creative writing, an EdM from Harvard, and a PhD in composition/rhetoric from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has directed writing centers at Loyola University ( New Orleans), the United States Air Force Academy, and the American University in Bulgaria, taught college composition since 1989, and written for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Reader, and Salon.com. His historical reading of error in composition, Dead Letters, is in press (Hampton Press, 2007). Tracy teaches GS 200 Writing Practicum, GS 300 Theory and Practice of Peer Tutoring, and GS 395 Peer Tutoring Practicum, assists the Writing Program Director and individual faculty in development of writing curriculum and pedagogy, and offers group consultation and individual tutorials across the graduate and undergraduate student body.

Molly Gross, Assistant Director
Carol Emmer, ESL Specialist
Janelle Dozar, Coordinator of Advising & Tutoring Services

 

Student Consultants:

Michael Bonner, Class of 2010
Major: Religion, Fiction
Minor: French
Tutoring Specialties: Brainstorming, Final Drafts
Favorite Book: Dune by Frank Herbert

Kristina Caffrey, Class of 2009
Favorite Books: Lord of the Rings, The Great Gatsby

Ryan Casserly, Class of 2009
Major: Neuroscience
Minor: Spanish
Tutoring Specialties: Brainstorming, outlining, Science/lab papers
Favorite Book: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Laura Cottingham, Class of 2008
Major: English
Minor: Environmental Studies
Tutoring Specialties: Analytical Writing, Close Readings
Favorite Book: Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Stacy DuClos, Class of 2009
Major: Anthropology
Minor: English
Tutoring Specialties: Final drafts, voice, social sciences
Favorite Books: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marcquez and Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck

Julia Head, Class of 2009
Major: Biology and Art
Minor: fun
Favorite Book: Matilda by Roald Dahl
Sara Hildreth, Class of 2009
Major: English
Tutoring Specialties: Organization, brainstorming, final drafts, analytical papers
Favorite Book: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Lauren Hughes, Class of 2009
Major: Sociology
Minor: Italian, Art Studio
Tutoring Specialties: Brainstorming, outlining

Phoebe Jiang, Class of 2009
Major: IPE and History
Minor: Asian Studies
Tutoring Specialties: Brainstorming, organizing, sentence structure/syntax, vocabulary
Favorite Books: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling

Tara Menon, Class of 2009
Major: Comparative Literature and English Creative Writing
Minor: Religion
Tutoring Specialties: Thesis and outline formulation, brainstorming
Favorite Book: The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky

Brian Mulhern, Class of 2009
Major: Biology
Juna Muller, Class of 2010
Major: Undecided, possible Religion
Tutoring Specialties: Brainstorming, Final Drafts
Zak Randell, Class of 2009
Major: International Political Economy
Tutoring Specialties: Brainstorming, planning, analytical essays, thesis development
Favorite Book: Be Here Now by Ram Das

Wiley Skewes, Class of 2008
Major: Mathematical Economics and Geology
Tutoring Specialties: Brainstorming, Reorganization/organization, Econ papers and presentations
Favorite Book: 1984 by George Orwell

Ella Street, Class of 2009
Major: Political Science
Alex Stiller-Shulman, Class of 2010
Major: To Be Announced
Tutoring Specialties: Social sciences, organization, picky grammar questions
Favorite Book: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No Good Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Brenna Swift, Class of 2009
Major: English
Minor: History
Tutoring Specialties: Planning, brainstorming, History and English papers, research and longer papers
Favorite Books: Grapes of Wrath, Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Virginia Trueheart, Class of 2009
Major: English
Favorite Book: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami