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Weekly/Hourly Staff Schedule

You should notify our Program Assistant of all substitution plans and missed shifts as early as possible. You must use the current schedule and contact sheet to exhaust ALL POSSIBLE options for adequate substitution of missed shifts. You can request substitutions by posting to the discussion board, emailing and calling specific people who are not already working, or putting the request on the bulletin board in the UWC. All substitution arrangements should be finalized by you in the substitution notebook located in the reception area. When possible, please notify the consultants that you work with of any planned absences or substitutions.

Click here to view the 2007-2008 Consultant Shift Policies and Procedures
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View the Spring 2008 Schedule
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Our Writing Center Staff
Fall 2007

Dr. Elizabeth Carroll, University Writing Center Director
- PhD in English from UNC-Greensboro (major: Composition and Rhetoric; minors: Critical and Literary Theory, 20th century Women's Literature) / M.A. in English from the Univ. of Vermont (concentration: American Indian Literature) / B.A. in English from ASU (minor: Women's Studies )
- Interests: Writing Center Theory and Practice, the Teaching of Writing, Rhetoric, and Ethnography
Tonya Hassell , University Writing Center Assistant Director
- PhD candidate in Rhetoric at UNC-Greensboro (secondary area: Critical Theory; special topic: Academic Freedom and the Politics of Rhetorical Framing) / M.A. in English from ASU / B.A. in English from Winthrop University (minor: creative writing)
- Interests: Institutional-level politics, particularly the corporatization of the university, academic freedom, and ideological models of education; writing center theory and practice; critical theory, particularly cultural studies, post-structuralism, and gender theory; and philosophy, particularly pragmatism and hermeneutics
- Favorite Quotation: "i won't trade humanity for patriotism" -immortal technique
Phyllis Thrasher, Program Assistant
- Attended Campbell College and got her MRS degree in 1968
- 3rd-year Assistant in the UWC
- Interests: Spending time with her husband of 39 years, knowing what's going on in the lives of her 3 grown children and their spouses, and spending all the time she can with her two granddaughters, Sharray 11 and Sienna 16 months. She also enjoys watching HGTV and going "junking." One of her gifts is helping people. If you ever need anything, just ask her and she will do what she can.
- Favorite Quotation: "Always remember who you are and whose you are."
Mark Williams, Online Services Consultant
- M.A. candidate in English (Community College Education track) & candidate for certificate in Rhet/Comp / B.A. in Communication from Wheaton College (minor: Bible)
- 1st-year consultant
- Interests: Baseball, football, beer, girls, and books
- Favorite Quotation: "Dropping punchy quotations from brilliant authors is so lunar...shiny yet secondary." -Mark A. Williams
Kayla Combs, Administrative Support Staff
- B.A. candidate in Journalism
- 1st-year staff
- Interests: Reading, hanging out with friends, being involved in her church, cooking, and Carolina Tarheel basketball
Brandon Lewis, Administrative Support Staff
- B.S. candidate in Banking and Finance
- 1st-year staff
- Interests: Bowling in a league with friends, driving on the parkway, watching movies, hanging out, and doing what college kids do
- Favorite Quotation: "People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy."
Anna Wilson , Administrative Support Staff
- Undecided Major
- 1st-year staff
- Interests: Friends, lacrosse, church, family, movies, and music

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Faculty Consultants

Dennis Bohr, B.A. and M.A.T. in Humanities from the University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)
- Full-time instructor in Composition, Department of English
- 6th-year faculty consultant
- Interests: Writing, producing, directing and performing plays for Black Sheep Theatre (a negative-profit theatre troups he co-founded). He likes to travel, go to plays, go to movies, read books, protest against the Bush administration and agitate for equal rights and health care for everyone. He is strongly anti-war/pro-peace.
- Favorite Quotation (for today): "There are enough horrible things in the world to die of without adding war to the mix." -D. Bohr, from Macbeth: The Play That Dare Not Speak Its Name
Suzanne Ingram, M.A. in English (Community College Track) and B.S. in Middle Grades Education, Language Arts and Social Studies from Appalachian State University
- 1st-year faculty consultant
- Interests: teaching, reading, writing, my friends, my cats Patches and Eliot, yoga, wine, and food
- Favorite Quotation: “I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it." -Faulkner
Kevin Young, M.A. in English (Literature track) from Appalachian State University / B.A. in Philosophy and Classics from St. John's College
- 1st-year faculty consultant

Interests: 20th-century American literature, Czech language and literature
Favorite Quote: "Birds that scream for territory can learn to sing euphorically." -Beth Orton

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Graduate Consultants

Amy Barwick, M.A. candidate in General Experimental Psychology
- 1st-year graduate consultant
- Interests: Reading, movies, playing the Sims, anything that lets her procrastinate just a little bit longer
- Favorite Quotation: "Learn from the mistakes of others; you can't live long enough to make them all yourself." -Anonymous
Dean Blumberg, M.A. candidate in English (Literature track)
- 1st-year graduate consultant
- B.A. in English from The University of Vermont
- Interests: The works of Richard Yates & John Cheever, most Roman Polanski flicks, social justice & activism, 60's rock and 70's punk, and cold chillin' with Sara & Roxy
- Favorite Quotation: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..." -The Who
Maryanne Grimmett, M.A. candidate in English (Literature track)
- 1st-year graduate consultant
- Interests: Victorian Literature and Civil War Literature
- Favorite Quotations: "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence over society." -Mark Twain
  "I did not attend the funeral, but I sent a letter saying I approved of it." -Mark Twain
Wade Gum, M.A. candidate in English (Literature track)
- 1st-year graduate consultant
- B.A. in Journalism from Appalachian State University
- Interests: Film, graphic literature, mythology, long walks on the beach, teddy bears, and dead languages
- Favorite Quotation: "No sympathy for the devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride." -Hunter S. Thompson
Megan Lease, M.A. candidate in English (Literature track)
- 1st-year graduate consultant
- Interests: Hiking, the outdoors, running, movies, and traveling
- Favorite Quotation: "I'd prefer not to."
John LoCurto, M.A. candidate in Gerontology
- 1st-year graduate consultant
- B.S. in Secondary Social Studies Education
- Interests: Politics, history, current events, world affairs, biking(mountain and road), birding, movies, behavior, personality and sharing knowledge
- Favorite Quotation: "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." -Anatole France
Leslie Nierste, M.A. Candidate in English
- 1st-year graduate consultant
- B.A. in English with a minor in Communication from Appalachian State University
- Interests: Reading everything I can. My favorite author is Ayn Rand, and my favorite book is Atlas Shrugged. Also: running (it's my therapy), Spanish (though I don't speak it very well), movies (but I'm picky), traveling, British Literature (esp. from the Victorian Period), and coffee.
- Favorite Quote: "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
Tina Romanelli, M.A. candidate in English (Litertaure track)
- 1st-year graduate consultant
- Interests: Reading, writing creatively and academically, learning, organizing, and creating art
- Favorite Quotation: "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." -Emile Zola (1840-1902)
Becky Woodard, M.A. candidate in English (Community College track)

2nd-year graduate consultant
Interests: Russian literature of the Golden age (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Gogal,
etc.), soccer (she currently coaches a ten and eleven year old girls challenge team, and singing, especially in the shower).