Expert Support

Writing Program faculty, research methodologists, and librarians are available for 1-to-1 help at the retreat. They’ll help you identify important issues and needs for your dissertation, and offer outstanding support and encouragement.

You know what the obstacles are. We can help you overcome them.

Stone Shiflet, PhD

Writing Across the Curriculum Coordinator

  • PhD, English Literature, University of South Florida
  • Certificate, Rhetoric and Composition, University of South Florida
  • MA, English, Western Carolina University

Leslie Olsen, MA

Writing Center Coordinator

  • MA, English Language and Rhetoric, University of Washington

Andrea Luna, PhD

Writing Program faculty

  • PhD, Reading and Writing Instruction, University of New Hampshire
  • MA, English/Writing Poetry, University of New Hampshire

Kim Surkan, PhD

Writing Program faculty

  • PhD, English, University of Minnesota

James Meredith, PhD

Writing Program faculty

  • PhD, English, University of Georgia
  • MA, English, St. Louis University

Gwen Nagel, PhD

Writing Program faculty

  • PhD, English, Tufts University
  • MA, English, Pennsylvania State University

Irving Buchen, PhD

Writing Program faculty

  • PhD, Johns Hopkins

Pamela Robinson, PhD

Writing Program faculty

  • PhD, Education, Capella University
  • MA, Counseling Psychology, Ball State University

Richard Schreck, PhD

Writing Program faculty

  • PhD, Education, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
  • MA, Teaching English as a Second Language, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Jill Hackett, PhD

Writing Program faculty

  • PhD, Communications, Union Institute and University
  • MA, Education–Human Development, Harvard University Graduate School of Education

Sandra Kostere, PhD

Research Methodology faculty

  • PhD, Union Institute and University
  • MA, Center for Humanistic Studies
  • PsyS, Center for Humanistic Studies

Bill Percy, PhD

Research Methodology faculty

  • PhD, Union Institute and University
  • MA, Goddard College

Jeff Shen, PhD

Research Methodology faculty

  • PhD, St. John's University
  • MS, St. John's University

Barry Trunk, PhD

Research Methodology faculty

  • PhD, Ohio State University
  • MA, California State University

Kim Kostere, PhD

Research Methodology faculty

  • PhD, Clinical Pyschology, The Union Institute

Erika Bennett

Information Literacy and Instruction Librarian

  • MLIS, Dominican University via the College of St. Catherine

Sommer Berg

Reference Librarian

  • MLIS, University of North Texas

Erin Brothen

Reference Librarian

  • MLIS, Dominican University via the College of St. Catherine

Julie Pohlman

Supervisor of Access Services

  • MLIS, University of Arizona
  • MA, Art & Religion, Yale University

Jennie Simning

Reference Librarian

  • MLIS, Dominican University

Kim Staley

Reference Librarian

  • MLIS, Dominican University via the College of St. Catherine

Robin Veal

Reference Librarian

  • MLIS, Dominican University