Big thanks to these writers who answer your questions in the “Ask a Writer” column. This post will be updated as we add more writers to our community
Jennifer Ahern-Dodson, Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition, is Director of Outreach in Duke’s Thompson Writing Program and directs the Faculty Write Program. Her current project focuses on metacognition and faculty writers.
Monique Dufour, Ph.D. in History, is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech and Director of graduate student professional development. She runs the “You Can Write It!” program and podcast and often leads writing and teaching workshops for faculty and graduate students at Duke, where she began her career as a Mellon Writing Fellow. She is currently working on a book, Sustainable Teaching: Time Management for Passionate Educators.
Cary Moskovitz, Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, is Director of Writing in the Disciplines in Duke’s Thompson Writing Program, as well as Director of the Text Recycling Research Project and the Duke Reader Project. He is currently working on a paper entitled: Text recycling policies in STEM author-publisher contracts
Julie Reynolds, Ph.D. in biology, is Director of Biology Writes and was one of the first scientists hired to teach academic writing in Duke’s Thompson Writing Program. She currently teaches writing-intensive courses for undergraduates and is organizes writing groups for faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and staff.
Amy Sayle, Ph.D. in Epidemiology, was one of the first scientists hired to teach in Duke’s Thompson Writing Program. She is currently a science communicator at Morehead Planetarium and Science Center who, in addition to presenting planetarium shows, writes for their science blog. For fun, she writes Young Adult fiction.
