Staff

Dr. Jennifer Phillips-Denny
Coordinator of Tutoring

Welcome to the Write Site! I have been the coordinator of the Write Site at Texas Woman’s University since January of 2011. I also teach composition and literature courses in the English Department. I have a variety of teaching experience gained over the past 21 years, including teaching numerous college English courses at TWU, UNT, Grayson College, and Colorado State University. My other experiences in higher education include managing course redesign projects, instructional design, learning technologies, and assessment. I received in B.A. in Sociology from Texas Tech in 1995, an M.A. in English from UNT in 1998, and a Ph. D. in English in 2001. My areas of scholarly interest are Victorian literature, popular culture, and writing center theory and practice.

In my free time you’ll find me hanging out with my husband and son, David and Devin, spoiling our rescue pets, and playing both video and table top games.

I love managing the Write Site, working with our awesome writing consultants, and TWU students!

Charles Dyer
Senior Secretary

Hello! I’m an Arkansas transplant with a degree in English - Creative Writing and an emphasis in Politics that I earned from Hendrix College in 2019. I'm a political junkie, and I’m passionate about journalism. For the past several years, a lot of my time and energy has gone toward political communications. Here in Texas, I spend most of my time helping out the Write Site and the English, Speech, and Foreign Languages department wherever I can. On the weekends, I freelance for local newspapers, and the rest of my time I spend looking after two gerbils, Ellen and Tater, and a rescued cat named Bids. In the time in between I relax with my partner and try to squeeze in a political drama or two on Netflix.

I truly am a believer that good writing can do anything in the world. I suppose it’s fitting I’ve found myself here in the Write Site.

Writing Consultants

Cameron
Graduate Assistant, PhD Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies

Writing focus/interests: Queer theory, gender theory, feminism/womanism, horror film studies, literary analysis
Favorite Quote: “To write is to confront one’s demons, look them in the face and live to write about them.” —Gloria Anzaldúa, Speaking in Tongues

Carli
English

Writing focus/interests: MLA, research papers, personal statements, literary analysis, creative writing, narrative writing, communication sciences, literacy.
Favorite Quote: “I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Chanel
Graduate Assistant, MA English

Writing focus/interests: MLA, APA, Exegesis, Eisegesis, Poetry, Critical Analysis, Research Papers, Analytical Essays, Creative Writing, Art History, Theater, Movies, African American Literature & Studies, and Psychology Science.
Favorite quote: "JUST DO IT." — Nike

Daehyun
Graduate Assistant, PhD English

Writing focus/interests: Storytelling, Digital rhetoric, Multicultural literature, Poetry analysis, Thesis Statements, Research papers, Creative writing, ESL studies
Favorite quote: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Etta
Graduate Assistant, MA English

Writing focus/interests: Women's studies, rhetoric, true crime, film/television analysis, short stories, video games, all things creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky
Favorite quote: “'If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. So blow your nose.'”― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

Lillian
English

Writing focus/interests: MLA formatting and citations, Native American literature, Multicultural literature, Storytelling, Theatre, Psychology, and Research papers.
Favorite quote: "Writing to me, is simply thinking through my fingers." — Isaac Asimov

Lindsey
Graduate Assistant, MA English (Rhetoric)

Writing focus/interests: feminism, research papers, literary analysis essays, narrative essays, and MLA, APA, and Chicago citations and formatting.
Favorite quote: “I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.” ― Margaret Atwood

Mickie
English (Writing and Rhetoric)

Writing focus/interests: MLA and APA formatting and citations, literary analysis, overall organization, brainstorming/outlining, and rhetoric.
Favorite quote: "The car goes where the eyes go." — Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

Stephanie
Graduate Assistant, MA English (Rhetoric)

Writing focus/interests: metacognition in writing and varied writing processes
Favorite quote: “Be afraid and do it anyway”— Anonymous

Taylor
Graduate Assistant, MA English

Writing focus/interests: multicultural women's and gender studies, feminism, MLA, rhetoric, brainstorming and outlining, research papers, film analysis
Favorite quote: “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ― William Faulkner

Terra
English

Writing focus/interests: MLA formatting, literary analysis, research papers, multicultural literature, personal narratives, and brainstorming.
Favorite quote: "What we do in life echoes in eternity."— Anonymous

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