Administration
I bring a critical approach to disciplinary communication and a community awareness to my administrative work. I served as an Assistant Director for the Center for Writing Studies, an interdisciplinary unit with a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) mission at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I collaborated with CWS stakeholders to connect writing support services across campus, as well as to develop teacher trainings around alternative assessment and multimodal pedagogy.
As a Center for Writing Studies Assistant Director, along with the Director, Associate Director and my fellow Assistant Director, I:
Redesigned and facilitated the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Teaching Assistant (TA) Seminar, which provided writing pedagogy support to TAs teaching advanced composition courses. The seminar focused on developing course goals around writing, designing writing assignments, practicing feedback and assessment skills, and empowering multilingual and neurodiverse writers.
Developed and led new professional development events, including a two-week multimodal pedagogy seminar and a workshop on alternative assessment.
Led follow-up discussion groups with seminar TAs implementing writing instruction across disciplines
Coordinated presentations and panels featuring graduate students and faculty on various topics, including social justice approaches to writing program administration, introductions to academic publishing, and academic job market reflections.
Collaborated with a graduate student committee to plan and coordinate the annual Gesa E. Kirsch Graduate Student Symposium.
Led monthly instructor meetings, maintained instructional archive, and provided support for the Informatics/Writing 303: Writing Across Media course.
Developed promotional materials and planned events for prospective students.
Advertised and supported graduate student reading and data workshop groups.
Trained incoming ADs and updated position guides and documents to maintain institutional memory.
Maintained the Center website, listservs and social media accounts.
One particularly memorable event I developed with my co-AD, Bri Lafond, allowed me to connect my experience with alternative assessment to social justice and multilingual approaches to writing instruction:
The CWS AD role also gave me the opportunity to compile resources and bibliographies on writing pedagogies across disciplines for instructors, including these examples: