Lynn Badia is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She studies nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and the history of science. Lynn teaches undergraduate composition and academic writing at UNC, and she has tutored ESL participants in Duke's Sanford Institute State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs program. She received a B.A. in English from Pomona College in Claremont, California. (Fall and spring tutor)
Bradley Burroughs is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. His work focuses on Christian theological ethics, modern social philosophy, and contemporary theories of virtue, interests that his dissertation seeks to integrate in order to articulate a constructive Christian political ethic. He holds an M.Div. from Duke Divinity School and has taught masters-level courses designed to develop critical thinking and writing abilities. (Fall tutor)
Jacqueline (Jackie) Cowan is a third-year Ph.D. student in Duke’s English Department. Her studies include seventeenth-century literature, and she is particularly passionate about early modern science and cosmology. Jackie currently fosters cats for Independent Animal Rescue and has taught English to junior secondary school students in Ghana. She received her H.B.A. from the University of Toronto. (Fall tutor)
Heidi Scott Giusto is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Duke. She studies early American and Caribbean history, the Atlantic World, legal history, and early modern slave societies. Her dissertation examines slavery, war, and the legal culture of South Carolina, 1670-1763. She received a B.A. in History and Political Science, an M.A. in History, and a Certificate in Historic Preservation from Youngstown State University. Read more about Heidi at DukeWrites. (Fall and spring tutor)
Patrick Horn is a Ph.D. candidate in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His major fields of interest include African American and (U.S.) southern literature. Prior to graduate school, he served as a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer in Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and East Africa. He is currently working on his dissertation examining narrative empathy in 19th- and 20th-century American literature. Read more about Patrick at DukeWrites. (Spring tutor)
Beth Long has 15 years of experience teaching and tutoring ESL. She has taught ESL in Germany, at Penn State University, at Central Carolina Community College, and in public schools. She has tutored undergraduate and graduate students, as well as visiting scholars, in ESL writing and conversation. Beth received an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language and a B.A. in English from Penn State University. Read more about Beth at DukeWrites. (Fall and spring tutor)
Jessica Martell is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also teaches academic writing. Her fields of study include nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature, modernism, Irish studies, and postcolonialism. She has an M.A. in English from UNC, an M.A.T. in English Education from City College CUNY, and a B.A. in Writing and Italian from Northwestern University. Before graduate school, she taught English at Louis D. Brandeis High School in New York City. (Spring tutor)
Fran McDonald is a third year Ph. D. candidate in Duke ‘s English Department. Her research areas include contemporary American literature and film, science fiction, and theories of the human. She holds an M.A. in American and Canadian Literature from Oxford University and received her B.A. from the University of Nottingham, UK. (Fall tutor)
Celia Mellinger completed an M.A. in International Education Policy at the University of Maryland and also holds a M.A. in Theological Studies from Emory University. Her interests include international student programming, immersion cross cultural education, and service learning. In what seems like another life, Celia received a B.A. in Physics from Goshen College. She has also taught ESL in Chad and in Edmonton, Alberta. Read more about Celia at DukeWrites. (Spring tutor)
Alex Ruch has a Ph.D. in literature from Duke University and a B.A. from the University of Minnesota. His academic interests include modernist literature and intersections between literature and philosophy. He has published articles on Simone de Beauvoir’s travel writing and Wyndham Lewis’s writings on corporate patronage of the arts. His most recent research examines depictions of the afterlife in twentieth-century European fiction. At Duke, he has taught courses on psychoanalysis, late modernism, and comic books. Read more about Alex at DukeWrites. (Fall and spring tutor)
Margaret Swezey holds a Ph.D. in medieval English literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she wrote a dissertation on courtship and marriage in Middle English romance, taught writing and literature, and tutored at the Writing Center. She received a B.A. in History from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Read more about Margaret at DukeWrites. (Fall and spring tutor)
Elizabeth Terry is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Duke University and specializes in the vocal-symphonic compositions of Gustav Mahler. She has taught on topics ranging from Bach to Hollywood film music. She graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Music in piano performance and a Bachelor of Arts in German and European Studies. She spent a postgraduate year at the University of Leipzig, Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship and continues to work on projects that center on German language and culture in music. Elizabeth is an active performer of choral and solo vocal music and performs regularly with the Choral Society of Durham and the Vocal Arts Ensemble of Durham. (Fall and spring tutor)
Zackary Vernon is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches American Literature and several First-Year Composition courses. He studies 20th Century American Literature, particularly the literatures of the American South. Vernon is currently working on a dissertation that explores issues of ecocriticism, ecoterrorism, and neo-Agrarianism in American Literature. (Fall and spring tutor)
Sean Ward is a third-year graduate student in Duke’s English Department. His academic interests include 20th-century transatlantic literature and critical theory, with a particular interest in literary representations of war and violence. He received his M.A. in English from the University of Toronto and his B.A. from the University of Montana. (Fall tutor)
Shilyh Warren teaches film and women's studies at NCSU and Duke. She completed her Ph.D. in the Graduate Program in Literature at Duke in 2009. She previously taught EFL in Argentina, Spain, and Morocco. (Fall and spring tutor)
Timothy Wright is a doctoral candidate in the Duke’s English Department. His major fields of interest are global Anglophone literature, modernism, and the theory of the novel. He is currently completing a dissertation on disconsolation in the late 20th century global novel. He previously studied Architecture. (Fall tutor)