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Directors

Dr. Daniel J. Weinstein

Director, Kathleen Jones White Writing Center and Coordinator, BA English Programs
Research Interests: Composition, Online Writing Pedagogy, Contemplative Writing Pedagogy, Creativity

506-T Leonard Hall

724-864-8528 (cell)

daniel.weinstein@iup.edu

Willa Black

Willa's focus areas include APA formatting, offering feedback on articles, and thesis/dissertation formatting.
Willa's research interests include digital game-based language learning and quantitative research for her dissertation. Her in free time, Willa enjoys playing video games, learning new crafts, and baking too many sweets. 

Ashley McClelland

Associate Director
Composition & Applied Linguistics PhD

Ammar Mahmoud

Ammar is passionate about teaching and learning and enjoys working with students.

He is completing a doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction at IUP and has a master’s in teaching English as a foreign language. Ammar has been teaching since 2015 and has experience with different age groups in different countries. His research interests include teacher-student relationships, role modeling, and social and emotional learning.

Emeritus Director

Dr. Dana Driscoll

Director
Dr. Dana Lynn Driscoll is a Professor of English and the Director of the Jones White Writing Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

ddriscol@iup.edu

She has offered numerous keynotes, consultations and workshops on writing centers and supporting advanced writers globally, including in Oman, Bangladesh, and the Czech Republic.  She has also published over 50 articles on learning theory, writing development, writing centers, and writing expertise.  In the Jones White Writing Center, she has developed innovative strategies for STEM writers, business and technical communicators, multilingual writers, and dissertation writing support.  She teaches writing for publication, research methods, and writing center administration in the Doctoral Program in Composition and Applied Linguistics at IUP.  She recently served as a co-editor of the open-source textbook series Writing Spaces (reaching millions of students each year) and, while finishing her Ph.D. at Purdue, also ran the world-famous Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), one of the largest and oldest writing-related websites in the world. 

Dr. Ben Rafoth

Emeritus Director

Current Tutors

Isisi Akogun

Isisi's focus areas include brainstorming, article editing, flow, and style.
Isisi believes "tutoring is a transformative journey of empowerment and knowledge-sharing, where students discover their potential and soar to new heights". 

Amiranda Adams

Focus areas include formatting, crafting outlines, creating research writing plans, paper organization, and brainstorming.
Amiranda's interests include digital pedagogy and rhetoric, crocheting, knitting, playing video games, and spending time with her husband and her cat, Charlie. 

Zhigang Bai

Focus areas include thesis and dissertation formatting, graduate editing, and iThenticate.
Zhigang is a Ph.D candidate in the Composition and Applied Linguistics program. As a tutor, Zhigang enjoys working collaboratively with tutees in order to uncover opportunities for learning and improvement. 

Willa Black

Willa's focus areas include APA formatting, offering feedback on articles, and thesis/dissertation formatting.
Willa's research interests include digital game-based language learning and quantitative research for her dissertation. Her in free time, Willa enjoys playing video games, learning new crafts, and baking too many sweets. 

Madelyn Carroll

Madelyn serves as the Graduate Writing Groups coordinator. Her focus areas include first-year writing, graduate writing, and thesis and dissertation formatting.,
Madelyn's research interests include writing center theory, best practices for tutoring, writing, and composition theory.

Audrey Confer

Audrey specializes in flow, grammatical errors, and structuring in undergraduate work.

Jaimeson Ernst

Jaime's focus areas include thesis and dissertation formatting, graduate editing, and iThenticate.

Ericka Garlinger

Ericka aspires to become a middle school math teacher or elementary school teacher. Her areas of focus include thesis papers/thesis statement development, transitions, and flow.
In her free time, Ericka enjoys crocheting, diamond painting, rock painting, and restoring her 1956 Chevy 210 with the hopes of making it into a hot rod. 

Haleigh Hayes

Haleigh serves as the veterans outreach coordinator for the writing center. Her areas of focus include flow and style, MLA and Chicago formatting, professional development documents, and writing across all disciplines.
Haleigh is a classical Greek mythology expert and military historian who enjoys ancient Greek history, modern superhero literature, Soviet literature, being overcaffeinated, writing poetry and books, and ranting when the mood strikes. 

Jacklyn Heslop

Jacklyn's focus areas include researching memes and social media, linguistics, synthesizing sources, and APA and MLA formatting.
Jacklyn's hobbies include video games, tarot cards, DIY projects, planning Dungeons & Dragons sessions, and spending time with her cats, Oberon and Obsidian. 

Alexandra Krasova

Focus areas include brainstorming, structure and flow, developing introductions and conclusions, proofreading, content, and grammar.
Alex research interests include helping multilingual students explore their identities through digital storytelling, digital writing, rhetoric and composition, and literacy. Alex enjoys helping students develop their composition and literacy skills. 

Danning Liang

Danning believes tutoring sessions are conversations and collaboration between readers and writers that happen during any writing stage, and for any writing.
Danning is a Ph.D. candidate in Composition and Applied Linguistics and she received MA in TESOL from Kent State University. She comes from Nanning, China. When Danning is not dissertating or tutoring, you can find her enjoying cooking, baking, drawing, watching TV, and photographing.

Ammar Mahmoud

Ammar is passionate about teaching and learning and enjoys working with students.

He is completing a doctorate degree in curriculum and instruction at IUP and has a master’s in teaching English as a foreign language. Ammar has been teaching since 2015 and has experience with different age groups in different countries. His research interests include teacher-student relationships, role modeling, and social and emotional learning.

Mahmoud Othman

Mahmoud's focus areas include TESOL, undergraduate writing, and graduate writing.
Mahmoud enjoys working with students on improving their writing skills by fostering transfer talks and power dynamics in order to create a collaborative environment. 

Ryan Mahokey

Ryan focuses on undergraduate writing, graduate writing, and MLA formatting.

Loughlin Pagnucci

Loughlin serves as the business writing credential coordinator, and his specialties include business, professional, technical, and research writing.

Caleb Roadcap

Caleb's areas of focus are lab reports, scientific articles, research papers, and thesis papers.
Caleb is an avid outdoorsman and car enthusiast who enjoys petting every dog he meets and caring for the many pet fish that he owns. He also loves cooking and trying new recipes.

Hailey Warzel

Hailey's focus areas include creative writing, narrative essays, and writing detailed descriptions and dialogue.
Hailey is a psychology major and writing minor. In her free time, Hailey enjoys creative writing, reading, and figure skating. 

Tutor Alumni

Rajwan Alshareefy

Nouf Alshreif

Jun Akiyoshi

Graduate

Sean Barton

Sarah Beecham

Cassidy Black

Undergraduate

Jared Burkhardt

Undergraduate
Online Writing Center Coordinator

Victoria Cassell

Nicole Catalfamo

Alicia Chabon

Bee Chamcharatsri

Alyssa Chesnutwood

Koga Chilume

Graduate

Hillary Clark

Toni Corosu

Melissa Cowan

Wenqi Cui

Focus areas include thesis and dissertation formatting, graduate editing, and iThenticate.
Wenqi's interests include coffee, hiking, and watching movies. 

Rachael Curtis

Cody Dreibelbis

Undergraduate

Becky Driscoll

Kelsey Durham

Dr. Ron Emerick

Retired faculty

Jenna Enright

Sheila Farr

Zachary Fish

Dana Formaini

Diana Forry

Jaron Fox

Nikki Gardner

Nick Gati

Katlyn Glaser

Alyssa Godfrey

Jawad Golzar

Alicia Gordon

Erin Guydish

Tom Hamilton

Kara Hannold

Stephanie Hilliard

Kelsey Hixson-Bowles

Maddie Hornstein

Katie Hynes

Ciara Irwin

Daewoo Jin

Casey Kelly

Shana Kennedy

Rachel Krueger

Victoria Loch

Meghan Lupole

Melissa Lutz

Valerie Makowieki

Shepard Maderer

Megan Marshall

Jacie Martin

Undergraduate

Michael (Miguel) McKeegan

Marissa McKinley

Marie Mencher

Lauren Miller

Dennis Miranda

Mir Abdullah Miri

Julia Mohn

Jonathan Montgomery

Morgan Moran

Alexandra Murphy

Tori Murray

Onesmo Mushi

Graduate

Emily O'Donnell

Alex Papadoplos

Hometown: Lancaster, Pa.

Year: Senior

Major: Accounting and Management Information Systems

Activities outside of the Writing Center: Skateboarding, biking, hiking, bass guitar and listening to music

Favorite quote about writing: "If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them." —George Orwell

Amanda Peterson

Harri Pokhiel

Jess Potash

Roger Powell

Angie Prencipe

Asher Rehn

Undergraduate

Jackie Rudisill

Andrea Sanders

Krista Sarraf

Marina Seamans

Danielle Snead

Ian Sonafelt

Alex Staszkiewicz

Amber Stewart

Gabrielle Stigliano

Larry Sugisaki

Larry specializes in tutoring students with learning disabilities. Larry is able to assist students using verbal, visual, or kinetic tutoring methods across all disciplines.
Larry's hobbies include watching sports (Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Mariners, Gonzaga basketball), cats, perfume, collecting Funko Pops, buying sneakers, late night internet impulse shopping, and stress eating. 

Jim Swider

Christopher Taylor

Rodney Taylor

Matti Thornton

Savannah Thorpe

Brittany Vaught

Emily Weber

Rob Welch

Laura Wick

Naria Willis

Claire Wisneski

Adelay Witherite

Omar Yacoub

Assistant Director
Omar's focuses include business writing, STEM writing, workshop development, and workshop presentation.
Omar's research interests include STEM writing, business writing, refugee literacy, and writing transfer.

Andrew Yim

Assistant Director

bhmcc@iup.edu

Ebenezer Ylonfoun

Graduate

Jiawei Xing

Amber Zinno

Havva Zorluel Ozer

University College
  • Kathleen Jones White Writing Center
  • Stabley Library, Room 203
    431 South Eleventh Street
     Indiana, PA 15705
  • Phone: 724-357-3029

Office Hours

Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.