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Teaching Professor in English; Director of the Writing Program

Laurie Nardone joined Northeastern’s Department of English in 2008 to teach in the Writing Program. From an undergraduate study on the representation of the Salem Witch Trials in literature, Laurie focused her graduate work on film theory and gender …

Associate Teaching Professor in English; Director of First Year Writing

Dan Metzger is a critical practitioner-researcher whose scholarship focuses on improving first-year student experience through gateway writing instruction. His research applies Black feminism and Foucauldian social theories to student experience and …

Teaching Professor; Director of Advanced Writing in the Disciplines

Laurie Edwards teaches Advanced Writing for the Health Professions, Advanced Writing in the Sciences, and Writing to Heal. She is the author of two books on chronic disease: Life Disrupted (Walker, 2008) and In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social Histo…

Assistant Professor of English; Coordinator of Multilingual Writing

Dr. Qianqian Zhang-Wu’s research focuses on multilingual writing, translingualism and raciolinguistic ideologies. Her work appears in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, Written Communication, Research in the Teaching of Eng…

English PhD Student; Assistant Director of the Writing Program

Angela Muir is a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at Northeastern University, where her research centers on feminist rhetorics, justice-oriented pedagogies, feminist memory studies, visual culture, and archival praxis. Her published work…

English PhD Student; Assistant Director of the Writing Center

Corie Mesa (she/her) is a PhD student in the English Department at Northeastern University, focusing on rhetoric and writing studies and digital humanities. Her research interests lie in classroom pedagogy and literacy studies, particularly as they p…