Writing Program Contacts

Directors and Staff

Kurt Spellmeyer

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• Title: Director of Writing Program
• Email: kurt.spellmeyer@rutgers.edu
• Office/Office Hours: MU 108

Becker, Brian

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• Brian Becker
• Title: Placement Test Writer, 100 Coordinator, Assistant Director
• Email: brian.becker@rutgers.edu
• Office/Office Hours: 43 Mine Street Room 201

DiGiacomo, Mark

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• Mark DiGiacomo
• Title: Assistant Teaching Professor, Director, Graduate Writing Program
• Email: mark.digiacomo@rutgers.edu
• CV: Mark_DiGiacomo_CV_October_2018.docx
• Office/Office Hours: 43 Mine St Room 204
• About: Mark DiGiacomo directs the Graduate Writing Program. He has a PhD in English from Rutgers, where he was a CCA fellow and a Mellon fellow. His writing has appeared in Modernism/modernity and Comparative Literature Studies. In addition to his scholarship, he has worked at an academic science journal and in the health nonprofit field. He is at work on a book entitled Resistant Forms: African Art and the Making of Literary Modernism as well as a writing guide for graduate students across the disciplines.
• Awards: Rutgers Writing Program Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2016 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2013-2014 Rutgers English Department Summer Research Grant, 2013 Edward Kassakian Award, 2013-2015 Rutgers Graduate School-New Brunswick Conference Travel Grant, 2013 Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis Fellowship, 2012-2013 Mellon Foundation Summer Grant, 2012 Rutgers English Department Mellon Summer Travel Grant, 2012 Rutgers English Department Conference Travel Grant, 2012 Graduate Fellowship, Rutgers English Department, 2011-2012 Mellon Foundation Summer Grant, 2011 Rutgers English Department Mellon Summer Travel Grant, 2011 Rutgers English Department Symposium Award, 2011 Phi Beta Kappa, 2001
• Education: PhD, English, Rutgers (2014) MA, English, University of Sussex (2005) BA, International Affairs, The George Washington University (2003)
• Courses Taught: Writing the Dissertation: Writing for Publication Graduate Writing Expository Writing Basic Composition Basic Composition with Reading Exposition and Argument Research in the Disciplines

markjd@english.rutgers.edu

Goeller, Michael

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• Michael Goeller
• Title: Associate Director
• Email: michael.goeller@rutgers.edu 
• Office/Office Hours: MU 108B

Reardon, Abigail

• Abigail Reardon
• Title: 101 & 103 Coordinator, Assistant Director
• Email: reardon@english.rutgers.edu
• Office/Office Hours: Murray Hall 026

Schmidt, Melissa

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• Melissa Schmidt
• Title: Placement Coordinator
• Email: Melissa.schmidt@rutgers.edu
• Office/Office Hours: MU 108E

Sillitti, Katie

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• Katie Sillitti
• Title: WP Secretary
• Email: katie.sillitti@rutgers.edu 
• Office/Office Hours: MU 108
• Phone Number: (848) 932-7570