Stacy Wittstock

Assistant Professor of English, Writing Center Director

Bio

Dr. Stacy Wittstock is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of the Marist Writing Center. Dr. Wittstock's work focuses on a range of areas related to writing assessment, writing programs, and writing center administration with a goal of developing research-based practices and heuristics aimed at dismantling harmful institutional and ideological structures affecting marginalized students and faculty in US colleges and universities. Her passion for educational justice emerged from her post-college work with AmeriCorps as an after-school coordinator in a low-income middle school in her hometown of Spokane, WA. Her experience as a writing center tutor working with struggling undergraduate writers at Washington State University inspired a career centered on leveraging sustainable writing support to advance access to higher education for all students. In her teaching, Dr. Wittstock encourages students to draw from their existing literacy practices in their writing, including the knowledge, languages, and ways of understanding the world they have cultivated as members of increasingly diverse and digital communities. 

In 2022, Dr. Wittstock received an honorable mention from the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) Graduate Research Award for her dissertation research on the impact of a high-stakes timed writing exam on students and faculty in a cross-institutional developmental writing program. Her work has been featured in Research in the Teaching of English, the Journal of Basic Writing, and Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. Dr. Wittstock is also an Assistant Editor with the Journal of Writing Assessment and co-editor of the JWA Reading List. Before moving to Marist, Dr. Wittstock was the Assistant Director of First-Year Composition and an Assistant Professor-in-Residence at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She has also taught and coordinated writing centers at Washington State University and the University of California, Davis. 
 


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Academic School

School of Liberal Arts

Office

Fontaine 224

Email

stacy.wittstock@Marist.edu

Phone

(845) 575-3000 ext. 2585