writing consulting & teaching

At The Writing Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, I support doctoral writers in deepening their process awareness: what writing looks like for them, how to make their practice sustainable given the conditions of their lives, and how to step into more agency in bringing their work to life. Academic cultures often instill a host of myths about the writing process—that writing is solitary, that only some are gifted writers, that everyone should have mastered common genres by the time they get to graduate school. A good deal of our work at The Writing Center is in debunking those myths, laying bare the real challenges most writers face at some point in their process, and making the form and function of academic genres more transparent, accessible, and workable.

Across this work is an enduring curiosity about how to deep metacognitive reflection on the writing process: how to help doctoral writers sharpen their awareness of how they think about their writing. A whole host of accumulated myths, inner critics, and unsustainable dictums often hover over the practice of writing, and deepening metacognitive awareness allows writers to be more deliberate in what works for them—and what really doesn’t.

Overall, I approach scholarly writing as a creative endeavor as much as an intellectual one, emphasizing how curiosity, play, dwelling in ambiguity, and imagining beyond persistent norms can spark new relationships to writing, both in what one produces and how writing enables a deeper understanding of the questions that matter most.