University Writing Center Tutors

She/Her/Hers

Major: English, Minor in History

Writing Expertise/Interests: MLA Style, creative writing, argumentative essays, literary analyses, grammar, and punctuation

Language Spoken: English, Some Spanish

Favorite Quote: "You just gotta keep livin', man, L-I-V-I-N." - Matthew McConaughey

Favorite Book: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

She/Her/Hers

Major: English, Psychology, and Minor in History

Writing Expertise/Interests: Academic essays, outlines/pre-writing, APA citations

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

Favorite Book: Dracula by Bram Stoker

He/Him/His

Major: Honors Psychology, Political Science, and Philosophy

Writing Expertise/Interests: Argumentative, academic, and research essays

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "A problem shared is a problem halved. A joy shared is a joy doubled." - Old Adage

Favorite Book: Saint Augustine's Confessions 

He/Him/His

Major: History

Writing Expertise/Interests: Research papers, argumentative essays, and creative writing

Language Spoken: English and German

Favorite Quote: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." - J.R.R. Tolkien

Favorite Book: Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

He/Him/His

Major: English and Journalism

Writing Expertise/Interests: Journalistic, academic, and literary analysis

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all." - lyrics from "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"  by Neutral Milk Hotel

Favorite Book: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

She/They

Major: Honors Psychology and English

Writing Expertise/Interests: Literary analysis, fiction, literature reviews, formatting, punctuation, content & clarity

Language Spoken: English and some Spanish

Favorite Quote: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou

Favorite Book: The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson

He/Him/His

Major: Psychology and Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests: Technical writing, argumentative essays

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "The mountains are calling, and I must go. " - John Muir

Favorite Book: East of Eden by John Steinbeck

She/Her/Hers

Major:Psychology and Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests:Academic writing, psychology research papers, HONORS papers, poetry

Language Spoken: English and non-fluent Korean

Favorite Quote: "Don't measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated." - Charlie Mackesy

Favorite Book: Kim Jiyoung, Born in 1982

He/Him/His

Major: English, Minor in Theater

Writing Expertise/Interests: Argumentative essays and poetry

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "It is this eternal dance that separates human beings/From angels, from demons, from gods/And I must not forget, we must not forget/That we are human beings" - "Hi Ren" song by Ren Gill

Favorite Book: The Seven and A Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

He/Him/His

Major: Communication, Minor in Dialogue, Conflict Resolution, and Mediation

Writing Expertise/Interests: Speeches, academic, writing, and creative writing

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still." - Exodus 14:14

Favorite Book: Single, Just Because by Bridget Gee

She/Her/Hers

Major: Psychology, Minor in Intergrative Human Biology and Honors Integrated Minor in Health

Writing Expertise/Interests: Literary analysis and argumentative, research-based essays

Language Spoken: English and Vietnamese

Favorite Quote: "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition form mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

Favorite Book: Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

She/Her/Hers

Major: Honors English, Minors in Drawing and Printmaking

Writing Expertise/Interests: Academic writing, fiction, literary analysis, and poetry

Language Spoken: English and Russian

Favorite Quote: "So intimitely, out there/at the pen's point or brush's tip/ do world / and spirit wed" - Howard Nemerov

Favorite Book: If We Were Villians by L.M Rio

She/Her/Hers

Major: Criminology and Spanish Minor

Writing Expertise/Interests: Research papers

Language Spoken: English 

Favorite Quote: "Don't die before you're dead." - Scott Stambach

Favorite Book: The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

He/Him;They/Them

Major: Honors English, German, and Music

Writing Expertise/Interests: Creative writing, Songwriting, Literary analysis

Language Spoken: English and German

Favorite Quote: "I love you. I'm glad I exist." - From The Orange by Wendy Cope

Favorite Book: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

He/Him/His

Major: Psychology and Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests: Proposals, academic essays, literary analysis, research papers (IMRAD), APA style, content & clarity.

Language Spoken: English and Korean

Favorite Quote: "An educated person is one who through the travail of his own life has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture, that make him a bearer of its traditions and enable him to contribute to its improvement." - Mortimer J. Adler

Favorite Book: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

She/Her/Hers

Major: Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests: Creative writing, grant proposals, technical writing, and grammar

Language Spoken: English, Portuguese, and Conversational Spanish

Favorite Quote: "We accept the love we think we deserve." - Stephen Chbosky

Favorite Book: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

She/Her/Hers

Major: Sociology, Minor in Parks, Recreation and Tourism, and a certificate in Social Justice Advocacy 

Writing Expertise/Interests:Personal essays and creative writing

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious." - Jack Kerouac

Favorite Book: Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

She/Her/Hers

Program: Creative Writing Ph.D. in Prose

Writing Expertise/Interests: Creative Writing, personal statements, argumentative essays, and literary analyses

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "Isn't it pretty to think so?" - Hemingway

Favorite Book: Anything by Virginia Woolf

She/Her/Hers

Program: Ph.D. student in Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests: Thesis development, content and clarity, grammar; Professional, Technical, Expository, Argumentative, Informative, and Research-based Essays; Identifying sources and citations.

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "There is greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you" by Maya Angelou

Favorite Book: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

She/Her/Hers

Program: Writing and Rhetoric Studies

Writing Expertise/Interests: Disability, legal, and medical rhetorics

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy." – John Green

Favorite Book: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

She/Her/Hers

Program: Ph.D. student in Writing & Rhetoric

Writing Expertise/Interests: Argumentative Research papers, APA/MLA, Editorials, reviews of music and theatre, decolonial theory, creative writing, and education.

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "Education is not a process of assimilating 'the truth' ... a process of learing to 'take a hand in what is going on' by joining 'the conversations of mankind" - Kenneth Bruffee 

Favorite Book: Anxious people by Fredrik Backman

She/Her/Hers

Program: Au.D. in Audiology

Writing Expertise/Interests: 

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "Knowing what it feels like to be in pain is exactly why we try to be kind to others" - Jiraiya

Favorite Book: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

He/Him/His

Program: Ph.D. student in Literacy & Cultural Studies

Writing Expertise/Interests: Math and science writing; technical writing; research in the humanities and social sciences. 

Language Spoken: English

Favorite Quote: "If to us, today, the bear no longer seems to be a transcendent being, we can nonetheless see that, deep in our unconscious, where language 'means' in multiple ways, the bear's sacredness is still a part of our lives" - The Sacred Paw

Favorite Book: Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon