Writing Center

West Chester University

Dr. Karen Fitts
Associate Professor of English
214 Lawrence Center
610-430-5664
kfitts@wcupa.edu


 

Staff Profiles

Writing Center Administrators

Dr. Karen Fitts, Writing Center Director and Associate Professor of English

Dr. Fitts's scholarship and teaching expertise is in composition and rhetoric, writing pedagogy, writing center praxis, and rhetorical and critical theory.  She has advised students at the undergraduate and graduate levels who plan to teach, and she is a former co-director of WCU's composition program.

Timothy Ballingall, Assistant Writing Center Director

Tim Ballingall earned a BA in English/Professional Writing from Kutztown University.  He calls Downingtown home, and will be commuting from there during his enrollment in West Chester's MA in Literature program.  Tim's research focuses on visual rhetoric and writing center pedagogy.

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Administrative Assistants

Briana Griffin

Briana is from Philadelphia and attended Cardinal Dougherty High School.  She is a fourth year student here at West Chester University majoring in Social Work.

Joann Terwilliger

Joann is a freshman Secondary Education major in English Literature.  She is from Shohola, Pennsylvania, and attended Delaware Valley High School.

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Writing Consultants

Brittany Hull

Brittany graduated from Lincoln University in May 2011 with a BA in English Liberal Arts. She is in the MA English Literature (thesis) program and plans to pursue her PhD at Princeton, Columbia, or New York University in African-American Literature.

Kate Mulhollem

Kate is originally from Altoona, PA.  She earned her BA in English Literature and Professional Writing at Slippery Rock University.  Currently on the Writing, Teaching, and Criticism track, she plans to pursue her PhD possibly out of state.

Katie Galtere

Katie is from Reading, PA and is currently pursuing her B.S.Ed in Secondary Special Education and English Writing.  In addition to working at the Writing Center, she currently works with Writing Zones and tutors at Kennett High School.

Monica Montes

Monica Montes is a third year student going for her BSEd in English.  She is from Eagleville, PA.  In addition to studying English, she is interested in learning other languages and cultures.  She knows a fair amount of Spanish and hopes to learn more Chinese.

Ryan Fernandez

Ryan graduated from West Chester University in December 2011 and is now a graduate student pursuing his MA in Literature.