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Center Graduate Students: Andrea Olinger
Andrea Olinger is a Ph.D. candidate in the Center for Writing Studies in the English Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Contact Information
332 English Building | MC-718
olinger3@illinois.edu
Biographical Statement
I grew up in a Chicago suburb, but it's been awhile since I've lived in Illinois. I arrived here from Los Angeles, where I got an MA in applied linguistics and an ESL teaching certificate and survived--thrived--without a car. Before that, I did the "recent college grad" thing in DC, working for a research firm that got English majors like me hooked on social scientific methods and literacy research. (Photo credit: Jennie Slade)
Research Interests
style/voice/register, multimodal discourse analysis and other methods of discourse analysis, language and literacy ideologies, WAC/WID, WPA, second language writing, composition pedagogy
Courses Taught
- Rhetoric 233: Through the Fog, Into the Clearing: Writing Styles in Academic Discourse
- Rhetoric 105: Principles of Composition
- RW 400: Reading and Writing (UIUC Intensive English Institute)
- ARW 500: Academic Reading and Writing (UIUC Intensive English Institute)
- ESL 33C: Advanced English for Academic Purposes (UCLA)
Other Positions Held
- Assistant Director, Center for Writing Studies
- Resource Partner, Language Partners, Education Justice Project
- Copyeditor, Research in the Teaching of English
- Rhetoric Tutor, Undergraduate Rhetoric Program
- Writing Consultant, Writers' Workshop
- Co-Editor, Issues in Applied Linguistics
- Co-Editor, Crossroads of Language, Interaction, and Culture
- Writing Consultant, UCLA Graduate Writing Center
- Research Associate, American Institutes for Research
- Writing Tutor, Dartmouth College Student Center for Research, Writing, and IT