College Writing Program
Meet the Writing Center Consultants
The Writing Center Coordinator
Stefanie Sydelnik is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English who specializes in 19th-century American Literature. She has been teaching and tutoring with the writing program for four years and is currently the College Writing Center Coordinator. She enjoys tutoring students with writing from all disciplines.
Please email her at: cwc@mail.rochester.edu
The Writing Center Consultants
Heidi Bollinger is a Ph.D. student in English. She studies 20th century American literature. As a writing consultant, she especially enjoys brainstorming and reverse outlining drafts. She especially likes working with application essays and argumentative papers in the humanities.
Dustin Hannum is a Ph.D. student in English, and studies 19th century American literature and aesthetics. He also teaches in the Writing program, and while he has the most experience working with 105 and 105E students, as a consultant he enjoys reading and talking about students' writing in all disciplines.
Leah Haught is a Ph.D. candidate in Department of English who specializes in medieval literature. She teaches in the Writing Program and enjoys working with students on writing from any and all disciplines.
Ann Marshall is a reference librarian in Rush Rhees Library with subject specialties in political science and law. She is familiar with many disciplines, especially political science, economics, anthropology and women's studies. In addition, she enjoys working with any type of writing. She has been a librarian at University of Rochester since January of 2003 and a librarian-writing consultant since spring of 2005. She received her Master's in Library of Science in 2002, her Ph.D. in the Social Science Program in 2001, and her Master's in Political Science in 1997, each from Syracuse University.
Matt Moynihan is second year Ph.D. student in Chemical Engineering. Matt enjoys working with students on science writing projects.
Jonathan Petruccelli is a Ph.D. candidate in Physics and Optics. He has been involved in tutoring writing at the College Writing Center for over two years, both as an undergraduate and a graduate student. Jon has experience in writing for professional science journals, but enjoys working with writing in all disciplines.
Shirley Ricker is a reference librarian who specializes in Linguistics, Religion and Classics. She teaches library research sessions for some of the 105 and 105E writing courses in the College Writing Program. Shirley is especially interested in working with writers who have questions about finding and using good sources for a research paper. She is currently enjoying taking classes in writing short stories and essays at Writers and Books.
Katie VanWert is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English who studies contemporary American Literature. She teaches 105 and 105E in the Writing Program.
Julietta Wolf-Foster, Senior Consultant, focuses on writing as process, and as a result enjoys working with writers of all levels in all subject areas—although she has a particular fondness for application essays. She has done graduate work in English, education, and theology and is a former T.A. in the Simon School’s management communications program.