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Writing and Humanistic Studies
MIT, Room 14E-303
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Telephone: 617-253-7894
FAX: 617-253-6910
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Karen Boiko
Lecturer, PWHS & WAC, 14N-328 617-253-2408 boiko@mit.edu
Teaching and Research interests include Nineteenth-century Literature, non-fiction writing, the Victorian novel, literary biography, Rhetoric, genres and film. In 2008 Karen co-edited, with Lucy Marx, the first edition of Angles, the new online magazine dedicated to exemplary writing from the Introductory Writing Courses at MIT.
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- 21W.730 - Writing on Contemporary Issues
- 21W.775 - Writing about Nature and Environment Issues
- 21W.777 - Science Essay
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- "Reading and (Re-)Writing Class: Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters" - Victorian Literature and Culture (Spring 2005), "Samuel Smiles: Preaching the Gospel of Self-Help" Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies, Vol. 3 (Spring 2000)
- "Finding an Audience: The Lecture Platform, the Political Platform, and Samuel Smiles's Early Career" Nineteenth-Century Prose, Spring 2001
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Harlan Breindel
Lecturer, WAC, 12-111 617-324-3081 breindel@mit.edu
Over the past 20 years, Breindel has taught scientific and technical writing, research writing, cross-cultural communications, and interdisciplinary courses in a variety of institutions, including The American University in Cairo, Johns Hopkins, and Northeastern University. He has also worked in a number of non-traditional learning environments, such as designing a creative writing as therapy program for a New York City residential substance abuse center, and volunteer teaching in an African refugee program in Egypt. Outside of the “academy,” Breindel worked as a rare books dealer, manager of a domestic violence shelter, and a NYC taxi driver.
Classes taught at MIT Include: Earth Systems, Engineering for Sustainability, Micro/Nano Processing Technology, Computer System Engineering, Managerial Psychology Lab, Polymer Science Lab, and Design of Ocean Systems.
Research Interests: Narrative & self, WAC, the application of cognitive models to the teaching/learning of rhetoric, and representations of disability.
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Mary Caulfield
Lecturer, WAC, 12-113 617-324-3081 mcaulf@mit.edu
Before coming to MIT, Mary Caulfield had a career in the consulting and software industries as a researcher and technical writer. She received a Master of Liberal Arts in Creative Writing and a Certificate of Special Studies in Management from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College. Her current interests include community education and teaching through arts and storytelling. Over the past three years she has consulted with a non-profit group in Brazil on training and support for teachers in poor and undeserved communities.
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B.D. Colen
Lecturer, PWHS, 14E-303 617-413-1224 bdcolen@mit.edu
B. D. Colen is Harvard’s Senior Communications Officer for University Science, responsible for media relations and communications for the University’s interdisciplinary and inter-school science efforts, including the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. The editor of the HarvardScience website, he is a Pulitzer Prize-winning medical writer, science editor, columnist, author and photojournalist with 23 years experience in daily journalism at The Washington Post and Newsday.
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- 21W.736 - News Writing
- 21W.749 - Documentary Photography and Photojournalism
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- Author of ten books on medical subjects, including: OR: The True Story of 24 hours in a Hospital’s Operating Room (1993), Hard Choices: Mixed Blessings of Modern Technology (1986), Born at Risk (1980).
Links: http://www.bdcolenphoto.com
Jane Abbott Connor
Lecturer, WAC, 54-1026 617-324-3081 jconnor@mit.edu
Jane Connor’s passion is to contribute to MIT’s incredible students’ growth in confidence and mastery, both personally and in their chosen fields. Specifically, she’s interested in how to produce communication that is effective and authentic, and in how listening in its many guises guides how we write, speak, meet, lead, influence, and collaborate. Jane came to MIT after nearly 20 years in business helping very bright people, often scientists and engineers, learn to listen and communicate. She frequently heard, from some extraordinarily accomplished people, “Gee, I wish I’d learned that in college.” Professional development: Emotional Intelligence Consortium; Interaction Institute for Social Change; Harvard Program on Negotiation; and other seekers for the soul of communication. BA: English, emphasis on Medieval Studies, from Swarthmore; MA: Languages, Literature and Communication, from Columbia. Along the way,she produced documentary films, and for a time developed multimedia programs for interactive videodisc, goatskin, and clay tablets.
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Jennifer Craig
Lecturer, WAC, 33-406 617-452-3841 jcraig@mit.edu
Jennifer Craig, M.S., M.A, is a Lecturer in the Writing Across the Curriculum Program. Since arriving at MIT in 2002, she has taught primarily in Course 16, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In addition to teaching writing and oral presentation, she also addresses teamwork and collaborative issues in professional communication. Ms. Craig is also interested in ESL issues and has worked with non-native-speaking graduate students in an Engineering Manufacturing degree program based in Singapore, She also teaches ESL in community settings, most recently at Massachusetts General Hospital and Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Prior to teaching at MIT, Ms. Craig taught at the University of Maine in Orono where she directed a Minor in Professional and Technical Writing. She also collaborated with the Department of New Media and with the College of Engineering, integrating writing and communication into those curricula. Prior to teaching at the University of Maine, Ms. Craig was a freelance technical editor and writer. Ms. Craig has written poetry, non-fiction and memoir; her work has been published in a number of literary journals.
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Kathleen Delaney
CI-H Advisor, WAC, E34-558 617-324-3813 kdelaney@mit.edu
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- 21W.734J - Writing about Literature
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Nora Delaney
CI-H Advisor, WAC, 12-116 617-324-3813 ndelaney@mit.edu
Nora Delaney is a writing advisor at MIT and a lecturer in the writing program at Boston University. In addition, Nora is a founding member of the Boston Poetry Union and Pen & Anvil Press. She edits Sixty-Six: The Journal of Sonnet Studies and Charles River Journal. Her essays, poems, and literary translations have appeared in Fulcrum and Suptropics, amongst other publications. Currently, Nora is translating a novel by the Dutch writer Boudewijn Büch.
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Thomas Delaney
Lecturer, WAC, 12-113 617-253-3039 tdelaney@mit.edu
Thomas Delaney is a lecturer in the Writing Across the Curriculum program, where he has worked with courses in mechanical engineering, political science, bioethics, and the humanities. Prior to coming to MIT, he was a diplomat, serving in U.S. embassies in Africa and Europe.
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Lisa Dush
Lecturer, WAC, 12-113 617-324-3081 ladush@mit.edu
After receiving a BA in English at the College of William an Mary and an MFA in fiction writing from Virginia Commonwealth University, Lisa Dush went on to earn a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric from UMass Amherst. Before coming to MIT, she directed the Advanced Writing in the Disciplines Program at Northeastern University. At MIT, Lisa teaches primarily in the departments of Chemical, Mechanical, and Biological Engineering. Lisa's scholarly interests lie in new media composition, the history of writing technologies, and the dynamics of writing in organizations. She is also the founder and director of Storybuilders, a business that helps individuals and organizations tell their important stories with digital media.
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- Lisa Dush has published chapters recently in the edited collections Composition and Copyright: Perspectives on Teaching, Text-Making, and Fair Use and Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment.
Elizabeth Fox
CI-H Advisor, WAC Lecturer, Writing Center, 12-132 617-253-3090 emfox@mit.edu
Elizabeth (Betsy) Fox has a Ph.D. in English and American Literature and an M.Ed.from Boston University. She has taught writing and literature at Boston University and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences. Betsy works in MIT's Writing and Communication Center, in the WAC program, and at New England Conservatory of Music. Dr. Fox has been the President of the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America 2007-2008, after serving as Secretary and Program Chair.
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- Betsy Fox has published a number of papers on D. H. Lawrence and on psychoanalytic theory. She is co-editor of a forthcoming volume of papers on literature and psychoanalysis, “Encounters between Literature and Psychoanalysis”.
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Erica Funkhouser
Lecturer, PWHS, 14N-229A 617-253-4065 ericaf@mit.edu
Erica Funkhouser has been educated at Vassar (BA) and Stanford (MA). She is a 2007 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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- 21W.762 - Poetry Workshop
- 21W.771 - Advanced Poetry Workshop
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- Erica Funkhouser is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Earthly (Houghton Mifflin, 2008). Her dramatic monologue in the voice of Sacagawea (from Sure Shot, HM 1992) led her to become involved with the production of Ken Burns’ PBS documentary on the Lewis and Clark Expedition; her essay on Sacagawea appears in Burns’ and Dayton Duncan’s book Lewis and Clark (Knopf, 1997). Her short fiction has appeared in The Massachusetts Review and an essay on war poetry was published in The Harvard Review. Funkhouser’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. One of her poems is sand-blasted into the wall of the Davis Square MBTA Station in Somerville, MA.
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William Haas
Lecturer, WAC, 14N-221C 617-324-3081 wjhaas@mit.edu
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- 21W.781J - Colossal Failures
- 21W.794 - Graduate Technical Writing Workshop
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- China Voyage: Gist Gee's Life in Science (M.E. Sharpe, 1996).
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Gay Haldeman
Lecturer, Writing Center, 12-132 617-253-3090 haldeman@mit.edu
Gay Haldeman (Mary Gay Potter Haldeman) has a Master of Arts degree in Spanish Literature from the University of Maryland and another in Linguistics, from the University of Iowa. She has taught in the Writing and Communications Center at MIT every fall for more than 25 years, specializing in English as a Second Language. The rest of the year she resides in Florida, where she manages writer and professor Joe Haldeman's career, dealing with editors, answering correspondence (in Spanish and French as well as English), serving as travel agent, answering the phone, typing and filing, arranging publicity, selling Joe's out-of-print books, etc. She's a regular correspondent for the Spanish science fiction news magazine BEMonline and has taught with Joe at the Clarion SF Writing Workshops at Michigan State and Seattle. She's also an avid bicyclist who has ridden her bike from St. Augustine, Florida, to San Diego, California, as well as across England and Holland.
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Elizabeth Harris
Lecturer, Writing Center, 12-132 617-253-3090 esharris@mit.edu
Elizabeth Harris' degrees are in English and American Literature (AB from Radcliffe College, MA from Columbia). She has strong interests in history, art history, and music. She has been a performer of choral music and plays viola in string quartets. She has taught a multitude of writing and literature courses and has been a participant at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and has lectured at the Northeastern University Writers’ Conference. Her “desktop gods” are Strunk and White (The Elements of Style) for encouraging clarity and accuracy and Thoreau, for his principle Simplify! in the face of complexity and contradiction.
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Louise Harrison-Lepera
CI-H Advisor, WAC, E34-558 617-324-3813 lhl3@mit.edu
Louise Harrison Lepera is a Writing Advisor for C-I Humanities classes.
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Diane Hendrix
CI-H Advisor, WAC, 12-116 617-625-8881 dhendrix@mit.edu
After serving as coordinator for the PBS series "Evolution" in Seattle, Diane returned to Boston and lectured in media at two other Boston colleges, coming to MIT in 2004. In 2007 she served as media coordinator for www.MoveOn.org. Her BA in English literature is from Agnes Scott College, and her MA in Communications, from the University of North Carolina. She has also been a photographer and studied poetry with Robert Pinsky.
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- Ms. Hendrix is a freelance writer/producer/director and editor. She produced/wrote a NOVA film on earth and life sciences and helped produce several other PBS series: the social history of the automobile ("America on Wheels") and sustainable living ("Planet Neighborhood"), among them. Her print pieces have been published in regional arts and political journals. She especially enjoys collaborating on video and web pieces for international projects and those related to new media in emerging democracies, here and abroad.
Links: www.hendrixproductions.com
Philip Hilts
Professor, Graduate Program, E19-307 617-258-8249 philts@mit.edu
Director of Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program. Formerly with New York Times and Washington Post. Former Neiman fellow, Magee Journalism Fellow in Southern Africa.
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- 21W.825 - Advanced Science Writing Seminar
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- Scientific Temperaments: Three Lives in Contemporary Science
- Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation
- Smokescreen: The Trust Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-Up
- Memory's Ghost: The Strange Tale of Mr. M and the Nature of Memory
Links: http://www.philiphilts.com/
Robert Irwin
CI-H Advisor, WAC Lecturer, Writing Center, 12-132 617-253-3090 irw@mit.edu
Robert A. Irwin studied philosophy at Princeton University and Antioch College and earned a Ph.D. in sociology at Brandeis University. He has taught at Tufts, Brandeis, and Holy Cross. Bob enjoys helping people and, as a would-be polymath, delights in the variety of Writing Center clients.
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- Dr. Irwin's publications include the entry on “Revolution” for Protest, Power, and Change (1997), an encyclopedia on nonviolent struggle. “Violent Disobedience and Civil Resistance,” “Nonviolent Success,” and other writings can be found on the Web, including (in both English and Turkish) “Why Nonviolence? Introduction to Theory and Strategy.” Of his book Building a Peace System (1989), Noam Chomsky has written: it “lays out the choices before us clearly and accurately . . . . If it stimulates thought and action, the possibilities for human survival will be enhanced.”
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Nora Jackson
CI-Advisor, WAC, 14N-432 617-452-3597 norajack@mit.edu
Education: A.B.D. University of Brussels, Belgium, Department of Language and Literature; completing dissertation on Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s late poetry. B.A., M.A. Germanic Languages, double major in English and Dutch Language and Literature, University of Brussels, Department of Language and Literature, 1998. Thesis: “A Comparative Study of the Sublime in the Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Charles Baudelaire.” Interests: British Romantic Poetry and Prose, French Modernist Poetry and Prose, Dutch-language Poetry and Prose, Aesthetics, Editing and Translation
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- Publications: Meurs, Nora, “Resisting the Silence: Coleridge’s Courtship of the Sublime,” The Coleridge Bulletin ns 25 (Spring 2005): 40-45. Meurs, Nora, Review essay of Coleridge’s Writings, Volume 5 : On the Sublime, ed. Vallins, David, The Coleridge Bulletin ns 23 (Spring 2004): 91-100.
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Jane Kokernak
Lecturer, WAC, 12-111 617-324-2218 kokernak@mit.edu
Jane Kokernak joined MIT as a CI-M lecturer in January 2008. Previously, she oversaw the writing center at Mount Ida College in Newton and coordinated a WAC initiative at Simmons College in Boston. Jane enjoys classroom teaching and meeting with students to talk about their writing. Her work has been published in Tomorrow's Professor, Bellevue Literary Review, and Leaf-Stitch-Word, her own blog. A lifelong Massachusetts resident, she holds degrees from both Wellesley and Simmons College.
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Marilyn Levine
Lecturer, Writing Center, 12-132 617-253-3090 maynew@mit.edu
Marilyn Levine has worked for the past eight years as a teacher and editor of proposals, manuscripts, oral presentations, and numerous other written and oral academic projects undertaken by undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, staff, and faculty at MIT. Over the past 25 years, Ms. Levine has worked as a communications consultant to architects and as a newspaper journalist.
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- Ms. Levine has published non-fiction work in magazines, newspapers, and literary journals, including articles in Books and Bookmen (London) and Architectural Record (New York). She has also written and directed three films, including “Something to Do with the Wall” (aired on Cinemax) and “Life, Death & Baseball” (distributed internationally and screened at the Harvard Film Archive). Recently, her edited projects include books, grants, and scholarly articles written by Israeli architect Dr. Tali Hatuka, including two recent books: Revisioning Moments: Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv, and Urban Design and Civil Protests: A Contemporary Mediation, both published by the University of Texas Press. During this same period, she has edited professional articles in the fields of art history, economics, chemistry, music, business, urban studies, media studies, and political science. Ms. Levine is currently at work on a collection of non-fiction essays.
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- Ms. Lewitt is the author of 10 fiction novels, including: Rebel Sutra, Tor Books, September 2000, Interface Masque, Tor Books, March 1997 and Memento Mori, Tor Books, March 1995. She has over 40 short stories published in the following anthologies: The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, Kaye, ed., St. Martin's Press, 1998 and Bending the Landscape, Griffith and Pagel, eds., Overlook Press 1998.
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Lucy Marx
Lecturer, PWHS, 14N-338 617-258-6561 ltmarx@mit.edu
Lucy has taught writing at MIT since 1986. She has also taught at UMass Boston, Boston University, and in the Teachers as Scholars Program. In 2008, she co-edited the first edition of Angles, an online magazine dedicated to exemplary writing from the Introductory Writing Courses at MIT.
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- Lucy's writing includes a play, The Devil Be Familiar, performed in Rowley, Massachusetts in 1992 to commemorate the tri-centennial of the witch trials; short fiction, including a story in Wavelength; poetry and prose in Venceremos (Simon & Schuster, 1971), and a novel in progress based on the stories of Genesis.
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Janis Melvold
Lecturer, PWHS & WAC, 14N-338 617-715-5193 melvold@mit.edu
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- 21W.732 - Science Writing and New Media
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- Author of scholarly articles in linguistics, neoropsychology, and neurology in Clinical Neurology of Aging, Cortex, Boston Globe, Brain and Language, Aphasiology, and other publications.
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Kym Ragusa
Lecturer, PWHS, 14N-221C 617-253-4532 kragusa@mit.edu
Kym Ragusa currently teaches Nonfiction in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, and in the Writing and Humanistic Studies Program at MIT. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and an Ida and Daniel Lang Award for Excellence in the Humanities. She has taught Creative Writing at City College, Queens College, and Eugene Lang College in New York, and at Josai International University in Japan. The Skin Between Us was named a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Foundation's 2007 Legacy Award in Nonfiction, and was published in Italy in May, 2008.
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- Kym Ragusa is the author of The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty and Belonging, published by W.W. Norton and Company in 2006.
- Her films Passing and Fuori/Outside have been shown on PBS and at festivals throughout North America and Europe. Her video, Demarcations, had its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
- Her essays have appeared in the anthologies Are Italians White: The Making of Race in America, The Milk of Almonds, and About Face: Women Write What They See When They Look In the Mirror, as well as the journals Leggendaria and TutteStorie.
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Leslie Ann Roldan
Lecturer, WAC, 12-113 617-324-3081 lroldan@mit.edu
Leslie Ann Roldan, PhD, is a lecturer with Writing Across the Curriculum, and Executive Director of the Cell Decision Process Center, an NIH Center of Excellence in Systems Biology. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University, and a PhD in Biology from MIT, where she trained in biochemistry with Tania Baker. Prior to coming to MIT's WAC program in 2005, she was a scientific editor who commissioned and edited biology college-level text and articles for the web. She currently teaches primarily in the departments of Biology and Chemistry, and her scholarly research focuses on how students develop scientific communication skills through oral presentations and journal clubs.
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- From 2001-2005, Leslie Roldan was a scientific editor for a web-based publishing company (www.ergito.com), where she developed college-level textbooks and articles in introductory biology, neurobiology, and structural biology
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- She is coeditor of "Boston Rocks, 2nd ed," a guidebook to rock climbing in the Boston area, and she is currently researching the communication skills needed by software engineers in industry.
Links: http://web.mit.edu/ruff/www/
Pamela Siska
Lecturer, WAC Lecturer, Writing Center, 12-132 617-253-3090 pjsiska@mit.edu
Pamela has been a consultant at MIT's Writing and Communication Center for 15 years. She is also a lecturer in WAC and was a contributor to The Mayfield Handbook of Technical & Scientific Writing. She taught writing and literature courses at Boston University for many years. Pamela has an MA in English and is currently writing her doctoral dissertation on Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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- Pamela's publications include: ’The Things I So Indispensably Needed’: Material Culture as a Reflection of Mary Shelley’s Life.” In Material Women: Consuming Desires and Collecting Objects, 1750-1950, eds Beth Tobin and Maureen Goggin. Ashgate Publishing, 2009. Conroy, Thomas; Lerner, Neal; Siska, Pamela, 2009 “Graduate Students as Writing Tutors: Role Conflict and the Nature of Professionalization.” In Weaving Knowledge Together: Writing Centers and Collaboration, eds Carol Peterson Haviland et al. NWCA Press, 1998 and “The Owl or the Nightingale? Need Debate Mean Opposition?” English Language Notes, September 2001.
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Amanda Sobel
CI-H Advisor, WAC Lecturer, Writing Center, 12-132 617-253-3090 asobel@mit.edu
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Susan Spilecki
Lecturer, Writing Center, 12-132 617-253-3090 spilecki@mit.edu
Susan Spilecki received her MFA in writing and literature in 1994. She has published her essays and poetry in journals such as Quarterly West, Frontiers, and Quarter After Eight. Since 1995, she has worked at MIT’s Writing and Communication Center, where she specializes in helping writers working on application essays, theses/dissertations, and creative writing. She also does technical editing for private clients. Through her company, Flying Pig Coaching, she provides strategies for people with procrastination problems, particularly professionals and dissertation writers. She is currently pursuing an MA in theology at the Episcopal Divinity School.
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Linda Sutliff
Lecturer, WAC, 12-112 617-324-3081 lsutliff@mit.edu
Linda L. Sutliff, Part-Time Lecturer in Writing across the Curriculum. Drawing on approximately 20 years of energy experience, Linda Sutliff specializes in strategic planning, financial analysis and economic analysis of power systems. She brings to MIT more than 20 years of full- and part-time college teaching experience in English. She is the owner of a management consulting firm and has co-authored Cambridge Energy Research Associates papers on advanced combined-cycle systems and the influence of low precipitation periods on power price and supply reliability. In-progress work includes an analysis of wind power economics and of New York State power generation. She is a former assistant secretary of energy for the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Ms. Sutliff holds a BA from Baldwin-Wallace College, an MA from Bowling Green State University, and an MBA from the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. She is a member of the American Economic Association, the International Association of Energy Economists, the Association of Energy Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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Cynthia Taft
Lecturer, PWHS, 14N-229A 617-253-4065 cbtaft@mit.edu
Cynthia Taft's honors include American Associate of University Women Doctoral Fellow.
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Donald Unger
Lecturer, PWHS & WAC, 12-112 617-253-3039 donunger@mit.edu
Donald N.S. Unger, MFA, PhD is a lecturer in Writing Across the Curriculum and the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. Scholarly interests include tracking changes in the representation of men, masculinity, and fatherhood in both language use and in popular culture, and questions of mutual assessment in the writing classroom. He has done business writing for Knowledge@Wharton and its affiliated sites. His nonfiction work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Village Voice, among other places. He has done political commentary for the NPR affiliates in Amherst, Massachusetts and Albany, New York. His short fiction has been published in literary magazines in the US, Canada and Europe
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- Don's forthcoming book (Fall 2009) from Temple University Press: Men Can: The Changing Image and Reality of Fatherhood in America. Next book, currently in progress: How Can I Trust Him?: Men as Caregivers
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Kim Vaeth
CI-H Advisor, WAC, E34-558 617-324-3818 kjvaeth@mit.edu
Kim Vaeth is the author of a book of poems, Her Yes (Zoland Books, Cambridge). Her poetic texts for the orchestral works Elegies, with the London Philharmonicand American Requiem, with the Pacific Symphony are recorded with Sony Classical and Reference Records, respectively. She has taught at Simmons College, Emerson College and Boston University and now teaches in both the Literature and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs at MIT.
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- Kim Vaeth is the author of a book of poems, Her Yes (Zoland books, Cambridge). Her poetic texts for the orchestral works Elegies, with the London Philharmonic and American Requiem, with the Pacific Symphony are recorded with Sony Classical and Reference Records, respectively.
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Lydia Volaitis
Lecturer, WAC, 12-112 617-253-3039 lydiav@mit.edu
Lydia Volaitis is a full-time Lecturer in the Writing Across the Curriculum Program. Prior to joining WAC. She was principal and founder of Vox Informa, which provides human factors, usability, and program assessment consulting to private, government, and non-profit organizations. Dr. Volaitis was a Principal Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research from 1995-2001, and was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at GTE Laboratories, Inc. from 1988-1995. She holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology (with focus on Speech and Language) from Northeastern University, and a BA from Columbia University in Language Science (Linguistics, Psychology and Computer Science).
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- Prior projects, clients, and publications can be viewed at http://voxinforma.net
Links: http://voxinforma.net/
Andrea Walsh
Lecturer, PWHS, 14N-214 617-253-7894 aswalsh@mit.edu
Andrea Walsh, a historical sociologist, teaches in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and in Women's and Gender Studies. She also is affiliated with the Comparative Media Studies Program. Her teaching and research interests center on gender, social movements, and media culture in the U.S.
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- 21W.730 - Writing on Contemporary Issues
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- Dr. Walsh's publications include "Women's Film and Female Experience: 1940-1950" and various articles on gender, visual media and aging. Most recently she published a piece on the “everyday justice” practices of 19th century American women’s rights activists who participated in dress reform, marriage reform and holistic health initiatives. She is also currently writing about the portrayal of the first wave of American feminism in documentary film
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Mary Zoll
Lecturer, WAC, 12-111 617-324-3081 mzoll@mit.edu
Dr. Zoll earned an A.B. with honors from Vassar College in 1971 and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Boston University in 1980. She taught biochemistry as Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Vassar College (1980-81) and medical, scientific, and technical writing in the Masters Program in Technical and Professional Writing at Northeastern University (1990-97) and has taught technical writing in The Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1997. She has written and edited for The Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Massachusetts Medical Society and now consults as a substantive editor. She has volunteered extensively, for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Medical Writers Association, The Concord Poetry Center, The Society for Technical Communication (where she founded the Scientific Communication group), and others.
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