University Writing Program

Faculty and Instructors

Faculty

Casey Andrews
Casey Andrews
Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program
Rabb Graduate Center 222
Pronouns: she, her, hers

TYP 8A & 8B: Writing for Social Justice

Collin Cook
Collin Cook
Lecturer, University Writing Program
Rabb Graduate Center 227
Pronouns: he, him, his

UWS 66B — Sports, Money, and Power
UWS 66B — Travel and Self-Discovery

Paige Eggebrecht
Paige Eggebrecht
Director of the Writing Center
Lecturer, University Writing Program
Goldfarb Library Mezzanine 232
Pronouns: she, her, hers

UWS 09A — Crowded Futures: Population Horror in Dystopian Film
UWS 25A — The Good, the Bad, and the Slimy: Aliens of Sci-Fi
UWS 56B — Tracking the Digital Self
UWS 71A —Like, But Not Like: The Uncanny Futures of Robots, Cyborgs, and Androids
ENG 55A — Smoke and Brick: Working-Class Literature of the Mechanical Age

Katrin Fischer
Katrin Fischer
Senior Lecturer
Interim Director of First-Year Writing
781-736-5850 Rabb Graduate Center 216
Pronouns: she, her, hers

UWS 17B — Bodies of Evidence: Forensic Science in Fact and Fiction
UWS 43A — Storytelling in Business
UWS 52B — Environmental Justice

elissa jacobs
Elissa Jacobs
Senior Lecturer, University Writing Program
781-736-2168 Rabb Graduate Center 224
Pronouns: she, her, hers

UWS 02A — Darwinian Dating: The Evolution of Human Attraction
UWS 37A — The Biology of Morality

Ethan King
Ethan King
Lecturer, University Writing Program
Rabb Graduate Center 226
Pronouns: he, him, his

UWS 64B — The Resistance Mix-Tape: Music and Social Justice
UWS 65A — Everyday Apocalypse; or Living Through the Long Emergency

doug kirshen
Doug Kirshen
Lecturer and Administrator, University Writing Program
781-736-4006 Rabb Graduate Center 205
Office Hours: Mon, Thu 8:00–12:00; Tue-Wed 12:00–4:00
Pronouns: he, him, his

CSEM-01A — Composition Seminar
UWS-16A — Sex and Advertising
UWS-65B — Coming to America

joshua lederman
Joshua Lederman
Lecturer, University Writing Program
781-736-2571 Rabb Graduate Center 217
Pronouns: he, him, his

CSEM-01A — Composition Seminar
UWS 69A — Hip-Hop as Social Commentary
UWS 69B — The Ethics of True Crime

Scott Moore
Scott Moore
Associate Director, English Language Programs
781-736-2628 Rabb Graduate Center 372
Pronouns: he, him, his

CSEM 1A — Composition Seminar

marsha nourse
Marsha Nourse
Lecturer, University Writing Program
781-736-3318 Rabb Graduate Center 215
Pronouns: she, her, hers

CSEM-01A — Composition Seminar
UWS-34A — Reading and Writing Boston
UWS-45B — Environmental Literature: Ecocriticism and Writing
UWS-67B — Music, Protest, and Social Change in the 1960s

Matthew Paskell
Matthew Paskell
Lecturer, University Writing Program
Rabb Graduate Center 223
Pronouns: he, him, his

UWS 73A  From Leptons to Neurons: The Science of Free Will
UWS 73B  The Ethics of Technology

Sophia Richardson
Sophia Richardson
Lecturer, University Writing Program
Rabb Graduate Center 218
Pronouns: she, her, hers

UWS 70A — Beautiful People: Myths, Models, Makeovers
UWS 70B — Clones and Copies in Art, Literature, and Science

lisa rourke
Lisa Rourke
Associate Professor
Interim Director, University Writing Program
781-736-2739 Rabb Graduate Center 225
Pronouns: she, her, hers

UWS 01A — Stories of Illness
UWS 04A — Medical Ethics
UWS 13B — Business Ethics

Instructors

Rafael Abrahams
Rafael Abrahams
PhD Candidate, History
Rabb Graduate Center 219
Pronouns: he, him, his

UWS 72A — Autobiographical Comics

Sarah Beth Gable
PhD Candidate, History
Rabb Graduate Center 222
Pronouns: she, her, hers

UWS 71B — Zombies and Society

James Heazlewood-Dale
James Heazlewood-Dale
PhD Candidate, Musicology
Rabb Graduate Center 219
Pronouns: he, him, his

UWS 62A — Video Games, Gamers, and Gaming Styles

Anja Parish
PhD Candidate, Politics
Rabb Graduate Center 222
Pronouns: she, her, hers

UWS 72B —Driving Change: Student-Led Social Movements