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Writing Lab for
Engineering Students
Faculty and Staff:
About the Director:
Writing Program Director, Harriet Levin Millan, is the prize winning author of The Christmas Show (Beacon Press), which received the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America for a manuscript-in-progress and was chosen by Eavan Boland for a Barnard New Women Poet’s Prize after having been a finalist or semi-finalist in nearly twenty first book competitions. Recent work appears in Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Kestral, Dragonfire and other journals. She has been selected as a PEW Fellowship for the Arts disciplinary winner in poetry, two Pushcart Nominations, writing residencies at Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Arts, and a winner of a Writer’s Grant from the Vermont Studio Center. Her work has been selected by printmaker, Patricia A. Smith for a collaboration entitled, The Crocodile’s Smile, which was installed at the University of the Arts, and by composer Shawn Crouch, who wrote the song cycle, This Morning, based on her poetry that was performed at Yale University and at the Tanglewood Music Festival. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, she has taught writing for over twenty-five years from pre-school to adult level and has been a writer-in-residence at workshops at The University of Iowa, Hartwick College, St. Mary’s College, The Philadelphia Writer’s Conference, Rosemont College, New York University, and The University of Pennsylvania. She serves on the boards of Philadelphia Stories, Saturnalia Books, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the National Conference in Peer Tutoring in Writing. In addition to her poetry, she has published and presented widely on the teaching of writing across the disciplines, specifically as a co-founder of DrexelWrites, a Drexel University consulting group, and in engineering education. Her groundbreaking paper on teaching poetry to engineering students, published in the Journal of Engineering Education, has become a landmark approach.
Links:
http://www.epoetry.org/issues/issue5/text/cnotes/hl.htm
http://www.dfire.org/x1963.xml
http://www.asee.org/publications/jee/author.cfm
About the Associate Director:
Dylan B. Dryer holds a Ph.D. in Composition Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research interests include genre theory, composition pedagogy, and the discursive construction of urban spaces.
About the Assistant to the Director:
Ryan Roderick is a junior majoring in English. He enjoys working with a variety of different people and being exposed to the multitude of perspectives that converge in the Writing Center in the interest of English composition. A few of his responsibilities as the Assistant to the Director during Fall 2006 and Winter 2007 terms include organizing tutors’ assignments to writing intensive courses, monitoring the WITS progress with their course, and facilitating the advertising for Writing Center events. In his spare time, Ryan writes, records, and performs music, reads and writes fiction, thinks, eats, sleeps, talks, jogs, and plays soccer when the weather allows it.
About Prof. Cheryl Sucher: is the author of the novel THE RESCUE OF MEMORY (Scribner) for which she was awarded a National Endowment of the Arts Creative Fellowship in Fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in such publications as NEW WOMAN, NEW LETTERS, THE HAWAII REVIEW and MIDSTREAM as well as the online journals KILLING THE BUDDHA.COM, MSNBC.COM and WOMEN IN JUDAISM.COM. Ms. Sucher graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa with University Honors from Wesleyan University and has a Masters of Fine Arts in Fiction from the Iowa Writer's Workshop where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. She received a full fellowship to pursue her doctoral studies in Modern Thought and Literature at Stanford University, where she was a teaching assistant in the celebrated short story class taught by Nancy Packer and wrote her master's thesis on the political literacy of Hannah Arendt. Her awards include the Lawrence Foundation Prize for the Short Story awarded by THE MICHIGAN QUARTERLY REVIEW, the John H. McGInnis Memorial Award from THE SOUTHWEST REVIEW, the KENYON REVIEW Award for Literary Excellence and Runner-Up (out of 3500 entrants) in the celebrated Mademoiselle Fiction Writing Competition (first Prize was awarded to Maris Nichols, her friend whom she told to apply.). Over the years, she has been honored with residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers and the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain. Recently, she won a residency at the Colorado Art Ranch on the basis of work excerpted from her new novel LOST CITIES. In July 1999, Ms. Sucher married a Kiwi (native New Zealander) and since then divides her time between Manhattan and Dunedin, New Zealand. In recent years, her essays and book reviews have appeared in the NEW ZEALAND SUNDAY STAR-TIMES, THE NEW ZEALAND LISTENER, THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD and the OTAGO DAILY TIMES. She is also the New York Correspondent for Radio New Zealand's Saturday Morning Show with Kim Hill, which is a national institution.
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