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Center Graduate Students: Lauren Marshall Bowen
Lauren Marshall Bowen is a Phd candidate in the Center for Writing Studies in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Contact Information
210 English Building | MC-718
lmarsha4@illinois.edu
Biographical Statement
I came to the CWS having almost run the complete circuit of English studies at the University of Maine, where I majored in English with a concentration in creative writing (fiction), and then earned my MA, specializing in gender and literature. My experiences as a peer tutor at the writing center and as a graduate instructor of first-year writing at Maine confirmed my love of writing, texts, and literate practice. After a year in administrative work for UMaine’s Honors College, I exchanged pine trees for cornfields and came to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to pursue a PhD.
Research Interests
Digital literacy, access and the digital divide, gender, aging, and literacy, materiality in literate practice
Awards
Illinois Distinguished Fellowship, 2007
Courses Taught
- Rhet 105: Principles of Composition
- Engl 290: Issues in Tutoring Writing (with Libbie Morley)
Other Positions Held
- Assistant Director of First-Year Rhetoric
- Research Assistant, Peter Mortensen
- Writers' Workshop consultant
- Summer Bridge composition tutor