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Center Graduate Students: Andrea Olinger
Andrea Olinger 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
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.
Research Interests
writing development across the lifespan, WAC/WID, style/voice, talk and writing, second language writing, applications of corpus linguistics for teaching writing, writing program administration, methods of discourse analysis
Courses Taught
- ESL 33C, Advanced English for Academic Purposes (UCLA)
Other Positions Held
- 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