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Administrative Team

J Palmeri is professor of English and Director of the Writing Program. Palmeri coordinates the first-year writing program and also provides support to faculty across campus in integrating writing into their courses in ways that enhance student learning. As a scholar, Palmeri focuses on the history and theory of writing pedagogy, multimodal rhetorics, digital humanities, and LGBTQ+ literacies. Palmeri has published two books about the technologically-mediated history of English instruction: Remixing Composition: A History of Multimodal Writing Pedagogy (Southern Illinois UP, 2012) and 100 Years of New Media Pedagogy (University of Michigan Press, 2021). They can be reached at j.palmeri [at] georgetown.edu.

Elizabeth Catchmark is Assistant Teaching Professor and the Director of the Writing Center. Catchmark previously served as an assistant director of the University of Maryland’s Academic Writing Program and a faculty fellow for the Professional Writing Program. She also independently developed and delivered a tutor-training program for the Petey Greene Program, which supports incarcerated learners. Catchmark received her B.A. from Penn State University and her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Her work in writing program administration focuses on linguistic justice in the teaching and tutoring of English, while her doctoral work examined health justice in the long Black freedom struggle. She has research expertise in linguistic diversity, Black studies and the medical humanities.

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