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Graduate Writing Fellows

FASANT Anthropology

Elena is a PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology with a focus on environmental humanities. Her research combines phenomenological concepts with ethnographic research and writing to explore human experiences in the Arctic environment. Her extensive background in international and intercultural communication makes her well-suited to addressing the challenges of international and multilingual students. She has also contributed as a peer reviewer for academic and student journals and served as a Teaching Fellow at Yale. Elena has a strong interest in incorporating ethnographic and creative non-fiction writing into scholarly texts. As a GWL Fellow, she is committed to assisting students with their academic writing and developing strategies for analyzing and critically responding to diverse types of literature and visual sources.

 

DRAADM Administration

Ryan Adelsheim is a doctoral candidate in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism at the School of Drama. Their research focuses on contemporary queer and trans performance and the archive. Ryan is the associate editor for Theater Magazine and has served as a conference dramaturg for the New Harmony Project and on pieces including their co-adaptation of Sarah Waters’ AFFINITY, among others. Before coming to Yale, Ryan freelanced as a new play dramaturg and editor and produced for theater companies including Steppenwolf, Baltimore Center Stage, 2nd Story, and Victory Gardens Theater. Ryan received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 and is thrilled to work with academic and creative writers in the humanities at all stages of their work!

 

 

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ACACWS College Work Study

Akshat Agarwal is a doctoral (J.S.D.) student at Yale Law School. His current work focuses on the changing law of parenthood and its implications for the recognition of non-traditional families. Before coming to Yale, he practiced law in India and worked in the non-profit/development sector. He holds a master of law from Yale and a bachelor of arts and law from the National Law School in Bengaluru. He has experience in academic writing, abstracts, research agendas, applications, and research proposals. He looks forward to helping students in all stages of their work.

 

FASEAS Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Anjali is a third year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Her research focuses on developing noninvasive wearable sensors for understanding and monitoring human motion patterns in everyday settings. Before coming to Yale, she completed her B.S. in biomedical engineering with a minor in materials science and engineering at Boston University. Anjali has experience writing scientific manuscripts and fellowship applications and is a NSF GRFP fellow.  She looks forward to helping students at any stage in their academic writing.

 

History of Science and Medicine

Kamil Ahsan is a 5th-year doctoral student in history at Yale University, with a prior doctorate in biology from the University of Chicago. His current work focuses on the intellectual histories of “reef” ontologies in peripheral reef regions, specifically Sri Lanka, Belize, and the Gulf of Mexico. Working at the intersection of environmental, intellectual, energy, and labor history, his work is an attempt to understand how ways of seeing reefs formed and commodified across the 20th century to the present. He is also a writer and critic. He is the Editor of South Asian Avant-Garde, and his work has appeared in NPR, The Nation, the L.A. Review of Books, Dissent, the Boston-Globe, and The Baffler, among others.

 

FASENG English

Shubi is a 3rd year PhD student in English. Her research focuses on novels about environmental illness in the postcolonial tropics. She received an MA in Postcolonial Studies from SOAS, University of London and a BA from Williams College. She is enthusiastic about working with other students on their writing goals, and welcomes them to consult with her at any stage of their writing process,  from brainstorming ideas to editing final drafts.

 

EASBME Biomedical Engineering

Shoham is a third year PhD student in the Biomedical Engineering department. Her research focuses on maternal immunity during pregnancy and mechanobiology. Prior to Yale, she completed her Sc.B in biomedical engineering at Brown and worked as a clinical lab researcher at NYU Langone. Shoham is an NSF GRFP fellow and excited about working with graduate students on their scientific writing. 

FASHIS History

Kate is a 5th year PhD Candidate in the History Department. Her research focuses on the arms trade and gun clubs in the British and American Empires. She holds a BA in History from University College London and an MPhil in History from the University of Cambridge. Kate has experience giving feedback on a wide range of writing projects and particularly enjoys offering folks a place to share their early-stage work in a low-stakes environment.

 

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MEDMBB MB and B

Elizabeth is a 6th year PhD candidate in the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Department. The goal of her current work is to define noncanonical roles for DNA damage repair proteins in cell division. Before starting at Yale, she received a B.S. in Biology from Wake Forest University. She is has experience preparing NIH and NSF fellowship applications, and is excited to help others refine their work and grow as writers.

 

 

FASENG English

Ruthie is a 2nd year PhD student in English and African American Studies. A graduate fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM), Ruthie studies histories of Black print culture, with a focus on Black feminist literature, archival practice and book history. Prior to starting graduate school, they worked in the editorial department at Beacon Press. With experience supporting writing projects for both academic and public audiences,  Ruthie is eager to collaborate with students toward a wide range of goals. They are especially excited to support interdisciplinary work and creative writing projects.

 

 

FASAMS American Studies

Candace is a 6th year PhD Candidate in American Studies and African American Studies. She received her BA in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. Her work centers around the intersections of race, gender, class, and public housing in urban centers in the mid-20th century, specifically in St. Louis, Missouri. As an arts educator and curator, she has worked at the Yale University Art Gallery, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and is the inaugural Community Curator at the Washington University in St. Louis Special Collections. She enjoys supporting students as they translate their ideas and research into writing.

 

FASMUS Music Department

Nicole is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Music Department and a consultant for the Yale Digital Humanities Lab. Her research aims to understand how artificial intelligence technologies influence contemporary music making, music listening, and music scholarship. Before starting at Yale, Nicole earned an M.A. in Music Theory from CUNY Queens College and a B.A. in Music from Stony Brook University. She looks forward to supporting fellow students on all types of writing projects, especially those that engage interdisciplinary topics.

 

FASHIS History

Jess (she/her) is a fourth year PhD student in the History Department. She researches the Latin American and Caribbean Right, cultures of reactionary exile violence and its many economic and political connections to Miami, Florida. She was born and raised in Hialeah, Florida and is a First Generation, Low Income Student (FGLI). Jess graduated with a BA in both History and Spanish & Latin American Cultures from Barnard College in 2020. She is passionate about making any step in your research and/or writing process one that centers engaging with readers and audiences outside of academia and/or outside of your field or discipline. Jess enjoys helping students work through writing out their research on social media platforms or through other public-facing mediums like podcast scripts for example. She looks forward to supporting students at any stage of their writing including brainstorming ideas! Please feel free to reach out to her at jess.cruz@yale.edu if you have any questions.  Jess is also able to give feedback on drafts written in Spanish.

 

Shefali Das is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in African American Studies and Film + Media Studies. Her research focuses on state funded military propaganda film, state funded art, and collective memory and consciousness. She holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in African American Studies and Political Economy. Shefali loves the writing process, and always looks forward to editing hers and her friends’ work, in any capacity – from op-eds to academic research, creative writing to poetry, the process of writing is something that she is deeply passionate about. She is so excited to work together, and really looks forward to reading your work!

 

 

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FASMUS Music Department

Taryn Dubois is a 6th year PhD student in the department of music. Her research on nineteenth-century Italian ballets sits at the intersection of musicology, dance history, and opera studies, uncovering unexpected connections between theatrical dance with industrialization, sport, and technology. She holds an MA from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Music in trumpet performance from Brandon University. She looks forward to another semester of writerly and scholarly conversations with other graduate students through the GWL.

 

 

FASHIS History

Breeanna is a fifth-year doctoral student in the History of Science and Medicine Program. She received her A.B. in History and African and African American Studies from Harvard College and earned her teacher licensure from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2015. Her doctoral research emphasizes the role of ancestral spirits in histories of regional pharmacopeia and bioprospecting by recognizing them as active and independent political agents in the cross-cultural negotiations of health, healing, and illness in the Western Indian Ocean. Her methodologies include ethnography, archival research, oral history, and ethnobotany, and she works across the disciplines of anthropology, history, and science and technology studies. She is eager to work with writers at all stages in their academic writing, with a special interest in grant and fellowship applications.

 

 

 

FASHIS History

Lauren (LG) Fadiman is a second-year PhD student in history. Her research focuses on the collaboration of political, penal, and psychiatric institutions during the Interwar period, as well as the legacy of early-20th-century socialist and anarchist groups. Previously, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with degree in folklore and mythology from Harvard College, and is now a practicing folklorist whose work for popular audiences on conspiracy theories, contemporary legends, American religious life, and the cultural periphery, has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including The Baffler, Jacobin, Current Affairs, Orion, and Real Life. 

LG has experience working with advanced students of all ages on structure and style in academic writing, but is especially excited about the process of converting academic work into writing for popular audiences.

 

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FASSLA Slavic Languages and Literatures

Alana Felton is a 5th-year PhD student in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her research focuses on contemporary Belarusian technologically mediated protest art and culture. Alana has extensive experience advising students writing fellowship application essays and has worked for the Yale Fellowships office for several years. She also enjoys reading and discussing dissertation chapters and academic articles, but is happy to provide feedback on any kind of writing! Alana previously worked as an Acquisitions Editor and copy editor at Academic Studies Press, an independent academic press and is passionate about helping young academics publish. During the 2024–25 academic year, she will be in Europe on a Fulbright Schuman Scholarship, working on her dissertation. Prior to coming to Yale, Alana was a Fulbright ETA in Viciebsk, Belarus in 2018–19 after getting her BA in Slavic Studies from Brown University in 2018.

 

 

Aida is a 6th year doctoral candidate in the German department, where she explores the relationship between description and human experience in 20th century literature and philosophy. Alongside her dissertation, she enjoys working on projects related to history of science, ecocriticism, critical theory, and cultural studies. Aida holds degrees in Biology and German Studies from Brown University and worked as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Germany before arriving at Yale. As a GWL Fellow, she looks forward to helping other graduate students develop and articulate their ideas in a variety of academic and professional settings.

 

ENVOTH Other

Manuel is a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Yale School of the Environment. His research is focused on secondary forest regeneration in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.  He has an undergraduate degree in Ecological Restoration and Forestry from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in plant biology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Manuel has experience in academic writing such as grant writing and scientific publications and he enjoys helping people develop their applications for graduate programs and grants. 

 

MEDMBB MB and B

Sara Gelles-Watnick is a 5th year PhD candidate in the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (MB&B) department and is a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA F31 predoctoral fellow. She performs research on the molecular mechanism of herpesvirus encapsidation. Sara earned a dual BS/MS degree from Brandeis University. She has experience writing and giving feedback on qualifying exam proposals, research manuscripts, review articles, and fellowship applications. She enjoys collaborating with and supporting trainees throughout their writing processes.

 

FASHOA History of Art

Elizabeth Keto is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the History of Art. Her research focuses on the art and material culture of the Reconstruction era in the United States South. Elizabeth graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College (2018) with a degree in History of Art and Architecture. She was the recipient of a 2018 Marshall Scholarship, and she holds master’s degrees in the history of art and in curating from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She looks forward to working with students on all types of writing projects in the humanities, as well as fellowship applications.

 

 

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FASAMS American Studies

Alison Kibbe is a 7th-year PhD candidate in American Studies and African American Studies. Her research focuses on Black mobility and cultural production in the Caribbean and the Americas, particularly on the relationship between Black migration and the corporation plantation in the early 20th-century Caribbean. Her methods include family history, oral history, ethnography, food studies, and performance studies.  Alison is passionate about supporting writers in building their own personalized writers toolkits and strategies. She helps writers achieve clarity and access their creativity (yes, it is possible within academic formats!) by exploring and experimenting with strategies that break writing projects into a series of practices. As someone with ADHD, she embraces a neuro-inclusive approach that honors the varied ways we process and communicate information. She also has a passion for working with multi-lingual writers. She has taught undergraduate writing courses and coached writers at the Yale College Writing Center. Before coming to Yale, Alison worked as an independent artist, producer, and cultural organizer. She holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University.

 

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Jennifer is a 4th year Ph.D. student in the School of the Environment and Center for Industrial Ecology. Her research focuses on utilizing life cycle assessment to characterize carbon removal strategies, primarily enhanced weathering. Before coming to Yale, Jennifer received her B.A. at Rice University in Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and worked as a Baccalaureate Fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.. She has experience in academic and non-academic writing and communication, and looks forward to working with fellow graduate students on a variety of writing projects. Jennifer is also a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and would be happy to help others with their applications!

 

 

 

MEDMPA Microbial Pathogenesis

Mara is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis. Her research focuses on investigating the host-vector-pathogen interface, with a particular emphasis on the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Before coming to Yale, she completed her B.S. and M.S. in Biochemistry at Virginia Tech. She is excited to help students at any stage of their writing process, from planning to refining.  Mara is able to give feedback on essays written in Russian.

 

FASHIS History

Eva is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in History. Her research explores colonial British America and the wider early modern Atlantic World, with a focus on political economy. She is also interested in the integration of network analysis, spatial analysis, and other digital methodologies in humanities projects. Eva received her B.A. in History from Yale College in 2017. Before returning to New Haven for graduate studies, she worked as an education policy researcher and freelance editor. She looks forward to supporting humanities and social science students at any stage in the writing process.

 

 

FASRST Religious Studies

Joseph (Sang Wuk) Lee is a fifth year PhD student in Religious Studies (within Early Mediterranean and West Asian Religions or EMWAR) and a Yale Divinity School graduate (MDiv). Their/his dissertation looks at Christian heresy-writers in the ancient Mediterranean from the perspective of ethnography, monsters, and disability/crip. Joseph is open to meeting students from all backgrounds and disciplines and discussing their work. Consultations with Joseph aim to be friendly, open-minded, and confidential.

 

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Jacqueline Ly is a 7th year PhD candidate in the History department. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century Belize. She holds a M.A./M.Sc. in International/World History from Columbia University and the London School of Economics and a B.A. from New York University. She enjoys talking and commiserating about writing at all stages of the process, but she particularly likes to work with writers on brainstorming. Jacqueline has experience working with writers on artist statements, diversity statements, dissertation chapters, and dissertation abstracts.

 

 

EASCEE Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Susanna Maisto is a 4th year PhD candidate in the department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Her research focuses on developing novel techniques for removing toxic emerging contaminants from drinking water. She received her B.S. in chemistry from the College of William and Mary. Before starting at Yale, she spent a year as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health. She enjoys helping students clearly communicate interdisciplinary research to broad audiences.

 

FASPSC Political Science

Anne is a doctoral candidate in the Political Science department with a focus on political theory. Her research examines contestation over identity, political ideology, and American values through the lens of 20th century U.S. educational discourse and policy. She holds an M.Phil. in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in Philosophy from the Gallatin School at NYU.

 

FASAAS African American Studies Dept

Jeania Ree Moore is a 5th year Ph.D. candidate in African American Studies and Religious Studies. Her research uses religion and theology to analyze a range of intersections and interests in African American history and culture, most recently romance novels. She holds an M.Phil. in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, an M.Div. from Emory University as a Woodruff Scholar, and a B.A. in Humanities from Yale. Prior to returning to Yale for doctoral studies, Jeania Ree worked in legislative advocacy in Washington, D.C., where she was also a contributing writer for Sojourners magazine and authored a bimonthly column. Jeania Ree has experience with writing for academic and public audiences, and enjoys working with students on various projects – research paper, cover letter, sermon, fellowship application, op-ed, and more.

 

FASHIS History

Jacob Morrow-Spitzer is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of History, and is also an affiliate of Yale’s Jewish Studies Program. His research focuses on the intersection between modern Jewish history, American race, and political history. He received his B.A. in History and Jewish Studies from Tulane University, and worked as a peer tutor at the Tulane Academic Success Center throughout his undergraduate years. Before starting at Yale, he worked in the non-profit and public-facing research world. Jacob has experience editing personal statements, journal articles, conference talks, fellowship applications, book reviews, public-facing scholarship, encyclopedia entries, and many, many course papers.

 

 

MEDCEL Cell Biology

Layla Nassar is a sixth-year PhD student in the Department of Cell Biology. Her research investigates why a subcellular organelle called the lysosome moves and how lysosome movement is related to the metabolism of specific amino acids. Layla holds a MPhil from Yale University in Cell Biology as well as a BS in Neuroscience and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from University of Miami. She is a recipient of a 2018 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. One of Layla’s greatest joys since starting her PhD has been in communicating research through writing, and she hopes to help others find the magic in meeting their writing goals.

 

 

EASCEE Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Kevin is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on transport phenomena in ultrahigh pressure reverse osmosis, an emerging desalination technology for brine management applications. He holds an M.S. in Environmental Engineering at Yale University, along with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.A. in English at Case Western Reserve University. He is an National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient and has previously worked as a science writer and editor for the CWRU Observer. Kevin has written for both academic and public audiences, and is eager to help writers in the sciences develop their ideas.

 

MEDGEN Genetics

Yanixa is a 6th year PhD student in Genetics and a recipient of a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA F31 pre-doctoral fellowship. Her thesis work focuses on dissecting molecular and phenotypical differences of KRAS variants in cancer. Yanixa obtained her BS in Biology with an emphasis in Genetics and Biomedicine from the University of Puerto Rico in Aguadilla. As a GWL Fellow, she is eager to help fellow graduate students develop their grantsmanship and science communication skills.

 

FASRST Religious Studies

Naila is a PhD cadidate in Religious Studies, with a specialization in ancient Judaism and Late Antiquity. Her research centers on the intersection of historiography, exegesis and ancient language politics during the Hellenistic and early Roman periods. She is interested in competing conceptions of primeval language, ancient idenity construction, and the transmission and reception of ideas and texts beyond antiquity. She also seeks to bring the field of biblical and early Jewish studies in conversation with late antiquity and early Islam. She received her MA in ancient Judaism from Yale Divinity School and her BA in Near Eastern History from the University of Connecticut. She has experience working with various genres and is excited to assist students with any writing projects at any stage for academic or general audiences in the Humanities and social sciences.

 

FASEEB EEB

Alison is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Her research focuses on using ecological theory to study how interactions between environmental stressors, thermal tolerance, and temperature regimes shape extinction, persistence, and evolution. She holds a BA in Environmental Studies and Mathematics from Williams College and works as a freelance writer in science communication. Alison particularly enjoys helping others frame their ideas in engaging ways and clarify their writing style to most effectively get their messages across.

 

FASPSC Political Science

Chetana is a fourth year student in the Political Science department. She is broadly interested in state formation processes, gender and sexuality politics and political violence. Her research project looks at various states’ gender ideologies and their association with enforced hierarchies of different sexual relations (e.g. marriage, relations involving “sex workers”, same-sex relations, etc.). Her work draws insights from various disciplines, ranging from anthropology to economics. Outside of research, she enjoys reading contemporary fiction and watching mindless TV shows. As a Fellow, she is excited to work with graduates on their writing projects, and help them discover their writing styles.

 

 

 

 

FASAST Astronomy

Zili Shen is a fifth year Ph.D. student in Astronomy. Her research focuses on faint and diffuse galaxies. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BSA in physics and astronomy and a certificate in the philosophy of science. She has multiple first-author peer-reviewed scientific articles and has won prizes for conference talks and presentations. She was the third place winner of the 2023 Yale Three-Minute Thesis competition. Zili is an author for the astronomy blog Astrobites, and she is a speaker for Astronomy on Tap. She looks forward to working with students on scientific writing.

 

 

 

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FASCHM Chemistry

Sydney is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Chemistry. Her work focuses on label-free imaging techniques such as vibrational microscopy with an aim to understand how cells adapt their metabolism and proteins to stress and disease. She holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Middlebury College and spent two years as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health after graduation. Sydney excels in writing scientific papers and grants, and she enjoys assisting students in finding their writing voice in the sciences. Outside of academics, she is an avid hiker and U.S. National Park enthusiast, having explored 26 parks so far.

 

FASMUS Music Department

Chloe Smith is a fourth year PhD candidate in Music History. Her research focuses on folk and popular music in the U.S. South, and her dissertation considers sound and musical performance as dimensions of Confederate Civil War memory. She holds an M.A. in Music History from Yale University and a B.A. in History and Music (violin) from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Chloe has experience with both academic and public-facing writing, and she is excited to collaborate with students at all stages of the writing process. Some of her favorite writing consultations include brainstorming outlines and workshopping rough drafts. She looks forward to helping graduate students shape their writing voices and clearly communicate their arguments to any audience.

 

 

Alan Mendoza Sosa is a 2nd Year PhD Student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His research interests are on Mexican and Latin American literary, film, and cultural studies; queer studies, postcolonial and decolonial theory, Latinx literature, translation, and poetry. He holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University and a Master’s from The University of Cambridge. He has 5+ years of experience as writing fellow for high-school, college, graduate, and professional students, and is passionate about empowering diverse individuals to become confident and effective writers.  Alan is able to give feedback on essays written in Spanish.

FASSOC Sociology

Adora Svitak is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the joint program in Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is interested in gender, power, and intimate life. For her dissertation, she conducts qualitative research on US elites’ romantic relationships. Prior to Yale, she worked in communications for the non-profit that operates Wikipedia. She received her B.A. from UC Berkeley, majoring in Development Studies and minoring in South Asian Studies and Creative Writing. Because of her experience with public writing, she is particularly excited to work with students on ideas to reach audiences outside of academia.

 

MEDOED Other Education Programs

Sofia is a 6th year Ph.D. candidate in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program. She is currently investigating the molecular mechanisms of Batten Disease, a devastating form of pediatric neurodegeneration. Before beginning her studies at Yale, Sofia earned a BSc in Biology from Haverford College and worked at NASA on the BioSentinel Mission. Sofia enjoys working with students on scientific manuscripts, fellowship applications, and personal statements. She is as passionate about reading good fiction as she is about writing for the sciences.

 

 

ENVOTH Other

Samantha is a 3rd year PhD student at the Yale School of Environment. Her research focuses on stress hormone response and the developmental plasticity of amphibians in response to climate change. She holds a Masters of Environmental Health from Harvard University and a Bachelors in Biology and Psychology from UNC Charlotte. Samantha has experience working with scientific communication to non-science audiences and working on grant and admissions essays, including the Fulbright grant. She enjoys helping students find their original writing voice and focuses on clear and concise writing.

 

Minh is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a Graduate Certificate in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. Their research examines everyday material cultures of discard, decay, and decomposition amidst the ongoing aftermaths of U.S. empire and war. They hold bachelor’s degrees in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Yale University. Across consultations, workshops, and peer-review groups, Minh enjoys  learning with and from colleagues in the humanities, working with them on whatever piece of writing at whatever stage of the process.

 

 

FASENG English

Ciru is a 5th year PhD Candidate in the English department. Her research considers meter in West Indian poetry at midcentury. Largely, she delights in the humor and mischief of several women poets. She is familiar with a broad range of critical theory, literary and otherwise. Moreover, Ciru is a dedicated peer reviewer and editor with a firm grasp of the elements of good, clear writing.