CONTACT INFORMATION

Ekstrom Library, Room 312
Belknap Campus
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky-40292

Phone: 502-852-2173
Email: writing@louisville.edu

MEET THE STAFF

2011 Writing Center Administrators

Bronwyn T. Williams, Director

I love to write and to teach writing. I have been involved in some form of writing or teaching of writing for all my professional life and I never get tired of it. So I am delighted to have the opportunity to work in the University Writing Center. Writing is the way we connect our ideas, emotions, and lives with one another. It is essential to the intellectual life and to communicating our common humanity. As a teacher I believe that the only way to teach effectively is to listen carefully to what students have to say and work with their writing so it expresses their ideas, not ours.  Our goal as writing teachers is to help students develop a rhetorical awareness that will allow them to negotiate the unfamiliar writing and reading situations they encounter both inside the university and beyond. I also believe that writing can be pleasurable and fulfilling, even as it is hard work, and I hope that my teaching provides opportunities for students to realize such moments and achievements. I have had a broad range of teaching experiences in composition and rhetoric, literature, creative writing, popular culture, and journalism. My department webpage is located at https://louisville.edu/faculty/btwill02 and my professional blog at http://bronwyntwilliams.com. 

Adam Robinson,  Associate Director
Adam attended the University of Louisville and has worked for the University since 2006 as a Writing Center Consultant, Part-time Lecturer in the English Department, Academic Counselor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and now as Associate Director of the Writing Center.  When he has time, Adam likes to hike, play guitar, and play softball.

Robin Blackett, Program Assistant, SR.
Robin is a longtime Louisvillian by way of Los Angeles. She enjoys reading mysteries and cooking. She considers it great fun working in the Writing Center and meeting all the diverse people who work in and use the Writing Center.

Andrew Holladay, Virtual Writing Center Assistant Director

Drew received his MA in English from the University of Louisville in 2009.  Since graduation, he has taught first-year Composition and worked as a Writing Center consultant.  Along with a number of soporific academic interests, he enjoys pouring hours and hours of free time into his Netflix queue and making noise with a guitar.  Drew and his wife, Beth, live in Germantown and maintain an ever-growing number of household and gardening projects.

Barrie Meadows, Assistant Director

Barrie has an MA in English from the University of Nevada, Reno. She developed a love for reading and writing as a young child while living in Mexico and Brazil, where her parents refused to subscribe to cable (thus forcing her to seek entertainment in books rather than on television).  When she’s not teaching, consulting in the Writing Center, or taking classes of her own, you can usually find her backpacking in the mountains.

Laura Detmering, Assistant Director

Laura is currently working on her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition at UofL, having completed her MA in English at Ohio University and her BA in English at NKU.  She has taught courses in English composition and literature at UofL since the fall of 2008.  She currently resides in Louisville with her husband.

2011 Writing Center Consultants

Megan Bardolph

Megan is a second year doctoral student in the Rhetoric and Composition program. Originally from Grand Rapids, MI, she recently spent two years living in Chattanooga, TN earning her Master of Arts degree. She currently enjoys teaching English 101, 102, and 105 at U of L. A few of Megan’s favorite things include ice cream, exploring Louisville, reading the newspaper, traveling, summers at Lake Michigan, the Detroit Tigers, and Pudge (her cat).

Ashly Bender

Ashly Bender is working on her PhD in Rhetoric and Composition. Before attending Louisville, Ashly went to school at Texas State University and New Mexico State University. In rare moments when she's not hiding under a pile of books, she enjoys action and sci-fi movies filled with plenty of one-liners, fights, and explosions. Also, ice cream and salsa, but not together.

Nia-Alyese Boyd

The little bit about me that relates to my presence at U of L is my commitment to lifelong learning.  I believe that education is a never-ending, cyclical process of learning and teaching, of experiencing and growing, and finally, of reflecting and expressing.  I realize this belief while acting as a mother, a teacher, a student, a worker, a citizen, and a friend.  My intent is to leave every situation and circumstance better because I was there.   

Whitney Brown

Originally from Taylorsville, Kentucky, Whitney recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from Centre College, a liberal arts college in Danville, Kentucky.  She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and the Dramatic Arts.  Whitney is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies.  She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in English at the University of Louisville.  Her interests include Early Modern Literature, drama of the English Renaissance, Post-modern drama and Fairy Tale Literature.

Lizzy Carraway

Lizzy is an English master student and graduate teaching assistant at University of Louisville.  She graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor’s in English and a minor in women’s studies.  Before arriving at University of Louisville, she taught English as a second language at a private academy in Seoul, Korea.  She also served as Program Coordinator at the YMCA Arcadia, where she tutored, taught, and mentored high school students from African countries. 

Lauren Dimmer

Lauren has a BA in Creative Writing from Florida State University. She spends most of her free time writing sonnets, listening to rock and roll, and exploring Louisville. She asks kindly that you don't spoil the mystery of snow until it finally happens, and maybe for a spare winter coat.

Sean T. Flynn

Sean Flynn was born in Neunan, Georgia on July 7th, 1988, and has been rocking and rolling ever since. He has two sisters, a brother, and a beautiful baby niece and nephew (both of whom he misses very much). He hails from Ohio, having lived in Toledo as a child. He grew up primarily in Chandlersville, which is a very small country town in southeast Ohio. Sean has a passion for coffee, people, music, dancing, cooking, and of course, literature. His favorite genres to read are science-fiction, fantasy, memoir, Modern, and Postmodern texts. He’s an amateur, non-aspiring artist who works in mixed sketching mediums. He attended Ohio University in Athens, where he earned his baccalaureate in English, and a certification in Women’s and Gender Studies. His aspirations are to become a professor of English and publish both literary criticism and, hopefully, his own creative writing. While at the University of Louisville, he wants to specialize in identity in literature from the 1900’s to today.

Emily Regina Freund

Emily grew up in the Louisville metro area and received her B.A. degree from Indiana University with majors in English Literature and Anthropology.  Her particular interests are Victorian Literature and literature's influence and interaction with Physical Anthropology, particularly evolution.  She worked at an educational publishing firm in Bloomington, Indiana, before returning to Louisville for graduate studies.  In her free time, Emily enjoys spending time with her friends and family, jogging, developing her burgeoning interest in football, and watching comic book superhero movies.

Rebecca Hallman

Becky is from Louisville, KY.  She graduated from Transylvania in 2009 with a BA in English.  While at TU, Becky spent time abroad in both the Philippines and England.  In her free time, she loves to read literature and poetry, run, spend time outside, and listen to live music.  Becky worked as a writing consultant in Transylvania's writing center for three years and feels that it was one of her valuable experiences as an undergraduate.

Hannah Harrison

Hannah hails from Greensboro, North Carolina--a city that is cooler than it sounds. She received her B.A. in Literature with a Concentration in Creative Writing from UNC Asheville in 2009, which--if you've ever heard anything about the mountain town of Asheville--is as cool as it sounds. Now, as a 1st year MA student at the University of Louisville, she finds herself in another Ville, which is way cool. When she's not tutoring in the Writing Center, sitting in class or reading/writing, Hannah likes to be active as possible. Trail running, backpacking, communing with nature, biking, dancing, going to see live music, gardening, petting dogs, cooking, eating and talking are among her fave activities. Someday, Hannah hopes to own a small-scale sustainable ag farm or homestead, and also a pony (which is not exactly sustainable, but a girl can dream.)

Jennifer Marciniak

Jennifer is a second-year doctoral student in Rhetoric and Composition.  She is from Corpus Christi, Texas, and received her Master’s degree in English from Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi.  Her other academic interests include literature of the Borderlands, as well as rural and place-conscious writing.

Jennifer Miles

Jennifer is from Louisville.  She just graduated from the University of Kentucky with B.A. degrees in Journalism and English.  Her hobbies include marching band color guard and playing with her tabby cat, Justin. She’s excited to work at the Writing Center this year.

Erin Pinkerton

Erin earned her B.A. in English in 2009 from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, where she worked for two years as a writing consultant in the IPFW Writing Center. Erin likes taking walks, eating sweets, and traveling, and like any true northern Indiana native, she enjoys a good game of euchre or cornhole. One of Erin’s all-time favorite things is receiving mail in her mailbox, not just her inbox.

Ellen Snell

After graduating from DePauw University with a BA in English Literature and Spanish, Ellen Snell decided the best way to maintain sanity would be to proceed directly to graduate-level studies. When she is not doing homework, consulting in the Writing Center or attempting to discover Narnia, Ellen enjoys reading, movies, internet memes, music, cooking, and predicting what her insane dog Ed will eat next.

Mark Williams

Mark is from Wheaton, Illinois. He studies Rhetoric and Composition here at U of L. He's not much on sharing personal information, but he does feel comfortable letting you know that he writes poetry, plays softball, and lives in the Highlands.  You can also know his favorite album is "Sports" by Huey Lewis and the News.