Staff
Meet the operational leaders and support staff in the Department of Writing Studies.
Department Chair
Administrative Staff
Graduate Program Staff
Fernando Sánchez
he/him
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies, (Ph.D, MA, MS, and Certificate)
Specialties
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine; Political Rhetoric; Scholarly Research and Publication; Community Engagement
Allie Cooperman
she/her/hers
Graduate Programs Coordinator
Specialties
Graduate education administration and support; Graduate student career support; Test fairness; Latent variable modeling; Measurement of change
Undergraduate Program Staff
Dan Card
he/him/his
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Specialties
Rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine; Communication design; Writing & Information Technology; Computational Rhetorics
Brigitte Mussack
Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies
First-Year Writing Program Staff
Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday
she/her
Director of First-Year Writing
Specialties
Critical Writing Pedagogies; Feminist Methods and Pedagogies; Sociolinguistics