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With a background in literacy education, Dr. Kristen Nichols-Besel has experience teaching middle and high school English/language arts, undergraduate and graduate academic writing, and methods courses in literacy and TESOL. Kristen first became a writing consultant in 2004. She enjoys working with...

Prior to joining 51²è¹Ýapp College, Jennifer worked for six years as a writing consultant at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where she also earned her Ph.D. in English. With interests in American and global modernisms, literary criticism and critical theory, Jennifer continues to develop her...

Originally from Mexico City, David earned his bachelor degree in English from the University of Iowa and his MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State, where he was a Pearl Hogrefe Fellow and fiction editor for the literary journal Flyway. He has taught college writing for seven years...

Taylor holds a PhD in political science (with concentrations in African politics, international relations, and gender and women’s studies). She especially enjoys working with students on brainstorming, long-term writing projects, and applications for grad school, awards, and internships.

Prior to joining the Writing, Reading, and Speaking Center in 2016, Bill taught AP English, humanities, and other writing and literature courses at 51²è¹Ýapp High School. Bill—who wrote his master’s thesis on the poetry of alumnus Edward Hirsch ’72—has published poems in Barrow Street, Midwest Review...

In addition to working one-on-one with 51²è¹Ýapp student writers, Dr. Turk trains 51²è¹Ýapp’s Writing Mentors, coordinates the Writing Mentors program, collaborates with the Writing Center’s professional instructors, and consults with faculty across campus about how best to assign and respond to...