Teaching in a Writing Center Fall 2021

  Hey everyone, my name is Tommy Mira y Lopez and I'm a first year student in the MFA in Literary Translation. I'm from New York City originally, but was most recently living in Cleveland (Let's Go Mets...sigh). I'm teaching Rhetoric 1030 and, though I haven't worked in a writing center, I've spent time tutoring writing and editing. I'm working on translating a book of stories from the Brazilian writer Jose J Veiga; I'm also a nonfiction writer, with a couple projects in various stages. Highlight of the summer? Any day it was under 80 degrees and being able to go out for a drink on a patio. And starting classes!

  Howdy,   My name is Spencer TL Wilkins and I’m a first-year student in the Nonfiction Writing Program. I worked for three years in my high school’s writing center and am ecstatic to join the UI Writing Center. Outside of workshop tables, I can be found birding, chopping records, or agonizing over orange and blue sports teams (go Knicks). A summer highlight would be learning archery. Currently, I’m working on a piece about the Soundcloud rap era in Trenton, New Jersey.  

Hey ya'll, I'm a first year in nonfiction! I'm teaching one GEL course this semester, and I've never worked in a writing center before. The highlight of my summer was getting to spend some time with my grandparents in person again after being away for college for the last couple years, and not being vaccinated for the first several months that I was in town with them and quarantining separately. My latest writing project has been about E-sex culture on Club Penguin circa 2008, and also a more stable piece about growing up in the tattoo industry. 

Hiya,  My name’s Mason Hamberlin (they/them), and I’m a second year in the Nonfiction Writing MFA. I’m a from all over, but central North Carolina is the closest place to home. Some small joys of mine: floating on rivers, trail running, thrifting clothes, cursed earrings, Eastern BBQ, basement shows, and queer theory. This semester, I’ll be teaching two section of GEL, so I have about fifty-ish undergrads to rally 😅 In the past, I’ve taught GEL over Zoom, edited for Chautauqua Literary Journal, and worked with students ages 8-18 to play and experiment with creative writing, but this’ll be my first time (tentatively) teaching in-person at a university level. One highlight of my summer was getting to road trip back home, by way of the Appalachian mountains. I haven’t been able to jump into a body of water in a while, so it was fun to reconnect with old friends and sail a boat around on mountain lake.  I’m a lil all over the place with my writing, but lately I’ve been collecting stories

 Whoops, accidentally posted a comment instead of a post! Anyway, hi all, I'm Erel (they/them), NWP 2023. I'm working as a GA this semester, so not teaching any classes. I taught Gen-Ed Lit last year, which was nice. I've never worked in a writing center before.  I'm working on completing the manuscript I've started over the Summer, which touches upon pedagogy a little. I think the highlight of my summer was that I got to start learning Japanese, which has been a wish of mine for a while now. 

Hi New Tutors--I'm Carol Severino, a prof in the Rhetoric Dept. and Writing Center Director. I've got a B.A, in Spanish, a Master's in Linguistics/TESOL and a Ph.D in English with a specialization in Rhetoric and Writing. The other courses I teach are Writing Theory and Practice for the Writing Fellows, some of whom you'll meet, an Honors First Year Seminar in Travel Writing, and Topics in Second Language Acquisition: Writing.  The highlight of my summer was when my brother and sister and my nephew and niece came from NY to visit us during Memorial Day weekend and got to know my granddaughters. My latest big writing project is a  learning-journal-based self-study on Writing to Learn Spanish--a kind of hybrid between creative non-fction and an academic research article, which I had a great time writing this summer. It was based on my experience in an undergrad Spanish Journalism course I took last spring during my research leave.  The course, focusing on investigations o