The Writing Center

Jennifer Albanese (Director)

Jennifer Albanese is the Director of the Writing Center and the former Associate Director of the Writing and Rhetoric Program where she has taught for almost twenty years. She has developed workshops and writing courses for the Graduate Chemistry program, the IACS, and the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University. 

Ashley

Ashley is a double major in English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Ashley has an extensive research background and specializes in thesis statements, analysis, and argumentation. Writing interests include literary and film analysis, philosophy, and politics.

Bernie

Bernie is a PhD student in the English department pursuing the writing certificate. While familiar and willing to help with a wide range of academic and "real world" writing, his primary strengths are research based papers pertaining to the study and analysis of Literature (send those Shakespeare and Milton papers my way), History, Philosophy, Writing and Rhetoric, and Culture.  Go Yankees!

Coral

David

Deanna

Deanna is currently majoring in English (Honors) and Biology. She can help tune and develop all types of academic writing but specializes in research based papers and lab reports. Her strengths include  organization, research, and developing a writing plan. Deanna is looking forward to helping students with all sorts of papers and at any stage in the writing process.

Didi

Didi is a senior who is pursuing her Bachelor's degree in English. She has a passion for romantic and fantastical literature, as well as poetry, and is eager to help students with all sorts of papers.  In her spare time she likes to draw abstract pictures and watch fantasy television, seeing the world come alive instead of just imagining it.

Dylan

Dylan is an English major in his senior year with a Creative Writing minor, who hopes to eventually pursue his PhD, unsurprisingly also in English. Dylan loves 16 ^th  century literature, absurdist theater, and Oxford commas. Dylan wants to one day become a professor, and pass his love of the Oxford comma unto a new generation of uninterested students. Dylan enjoys writing about himself in the third person because it makes him feel important.

Hayley

Hayley is a Psychology and Sociology double major with a minor in Health, Medicine, & Society, while pursuing the non-academic hobby of stress-baking cupcakes. Experienced in writing research papers for a variety of subjects, Hayley also enjoys working with creative non fiction pieces as well, especially personal statements. She is looking forward to helping students find their voice through writing.

Holly

Holly is an English major with Honors and is minoring in Sustainability Studies. She is a second year undergraduate student and is most experienced with writing textual analyses; her strengths include organization, structure, and brainstorming sessions. She also has experience in creative writing and enjoys working with students of all disciplines.

Jake

Jake is an English major in the Honors program at Stony Brook. His interests include critical literary and linguistic theory, dramatic literature, and poetics. Having spent two years at a conservatory as a violinist, he also enjoys playing, discussing, and listening to a broad range of music. 

Jamie

Jamie is an English major studying to become a high-school teacher. He has plenty of experience with literary analysis and  research papers, and has tutored writing in a variety of disciplines.  When he is not reading and writing for class, he is doing so for fun; when he is not reading or writing at all, he is most likely telling himself that he should be. Jamie looks forward to helping students understand the art of writing.

Jon

Jon is an English PhD student and is currently working toward certificates in writing and in women, gender, and sexuality studies. While his academic interests have rarely strayed outside of humanities departments, he enjoys reading the whole gamut of writing brought to his attention.

Lissette

Mary Rose

Mary Rose is a third year student double majoring in Psychology and English. Her passion for the educational learning process led her to Stony Brook University’s secondary teaching program for English. In addition to her time spent tutoring in the Writing Center, she maintains a part time position with The Office of Commuter Student Services and she is a proud Resident Assistant in H-Quad. 

Nick

Nick is a student of English in both the Education and Honors programs. His writing experience ranges from creative poetical endeavors to intensive research papers on invasive arthropods. Accordingly, he is well equipped to offer assistance with assignments of all sorts.  

Rida

Rida is a senior enrolled in the accelerated BA/MA program in English. Her writing interests are focused on technology and medicine and she enjoys writing/reviewing contracts and patents. She plans on going to law school to become a patent lawyer after she completes her MA. She enjoys good books, and her favorite is Vonnegut's  Slaughterhouse Five . 

Ryan

Ryan is an English major and a writing minor in his fourth year at Stony Brook. To be honest, he spends more time doodling in the margins and thinking about writing than actually writing. Even so, he’s a capable writer with a knack for sentence rhythm and tone. Send him anything—your text analyses, your research papers, your creative nonfiction, or even your obscure fanfiction—and he’ll take a look. In addition to the Writing Center, Ryan serves as a TA in the English Department (shout-out to Dr. Huffman). Outside of the classroom, Ryan spends his time drawing, hiking, and trying not to think about his future.

Sachin

Samara

Sampson

Sampson is an undergraduate Chemistry major with a minor in Professional Writing. He enjoys seeing growth in others' work, and believes that uplifting another also reinforces one's own writing abilities. In his free time Sampson co-facilitates the Stony Brook RhetComp blog, and serves as treasurer for the Stony Brook rowing team.

Sara

Sara is a PhD student in the English department, with a certificate in writing. Her research focuses on biopolitics, neoliberalism and ecocriticism in contemporary fiction, specifically how the human is re/defined through the intertwining of capital, technology and environment. When she isn't reading abstruse theory, she teaches writing, marathons Battlestar Galactica and pretends to be funny on Twitter.

Sarah

Sarah is an English PhD student pursuing graduate certificates in Writing and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Having taught English and history in a STEM program, she enjoys conferencing with students on a wide variety of writing assignments and has familiarity with several citation styles. Her pedagogical experience includes serving as a teacher consultant for the National Writing Project.

Sharmilah

Tenzin

Teri

Tiara

Uma

Victoria

Victoria is a Psychology and Applied Math & Statistics double major with a minor in Writing & Rhetoric. Despite branching out in her collegiate career to analytical and research-oriented pieces, Victoria has always had a passion for creative writing, particularly storytelling.  When she's not in the Writing Center, you can find Victoria studying, painting, listening to music, or online shopping.   

Vignesh

William

William is a Junior majoring in English. His gnawing and lifelong urge to write has led him, not only to his major, but also to a position as Content Writer for Odyssey Online. He reads far more non-fiction (particularly history) than fiction, and has a fascination with primary sources. William complements this love of literature with a strong passion for video production, which he directs towards his role as President of the Student Media Organization SBU-TV. 

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