Become a Writing Center Graduate Fellow

For AY 2024-2025, The Writing Center is offering Graduate Fellowships designed to contribute to fellows’ professional development while also supporting their writing efforts. This opportunity is open to all doctoral students across the university.

Writing fellows will receive training and experience in the pedagogy of one-on-one writing instruction, learn about effective writing workshop design and execution, and have the chance to design and deliver their own workshops.  They will also learn how to translate their Writing Center training and experience into various classroom settings and situations.  Their work will be supervised by Rob Patterson, director of The Writing Center, and require a commitment of approximately six hours per week.

Dissertation Support:

While The Writing Center is offering this fellowship as a way to provide training and experience useful on the job market, we are ultimately interested in supporting fellows’ dissertation and other writing progress.  To that end, all selected fellows will receive individual and group writing support.

Duration:

Fellowship responsibilities begin August 2024 and end May 2025. We will hold a 3-hour kick-off meeting in the week before fall classes begin.

Time commitment:

Approximately 6 hours per week, including a weekly group meeting for training and writing support purposes.  Weekly schedule will be flexible to accommodate fellows’ departmental and dissertation-related responsibilities.

NOTE: For the first 3-4 weeks of the fall semester, the weekly training meeting will be 2 hours each week. During that time, fellows will not be tutoring students. Once fellows begin tutoring, the weekly meetings will be 1 hour each week.

Stipend:

$4120 for the academic year

Qualifications:

• Doctoral students in good standing who have their advisors’ support in pursuing this opportunity.
• At or near the dissertation stage, though we will consider applicants at an earlier stage on a case-by-case basis.
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Enjoys working with and helping others.

Applications due April 26