Hi! I'm Tyler Gillespie, and I teach first-year writing in the FASTrack learning community at the University of Mississippi. I'm a poet, journalist, and (former) comedian. My academic scholarship focuses on first-year composition and queer rhetorics.


About this Site

This site serves as my ePortfolio of work/research started or completed as part of the 2021 University of Mississippi Writing Project Invitational Leadership Institute for Teachers. I've organized this site/content by UMWP's portfolio suggestions as connected to my roles as a Teacher who is also a Writer, Researcher, Instructional Leader, Reflective Practitioner, and Reader. My full teaching portfolio can be found at TylerGillespie.com.

Get in touch: tmgilles@olemiss.edu