Dean of Academic Success and Advising Center
Director of the Writing Collaboratory
Phone: ext. 4998
Email: Erin.Andersen@centenaryuniversity.edu

Academic Achievements

Bachelor Degree/Major/Institution

B.A., English, Writing Concentration; College of Saint Elizabeth

Masters

M.A, English; Fordham University

M.Phil., English, Composition and Rhetoric Concentration; The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Doctorate

PhD., English, Composition and Rhetoric Concentration; The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Certificates

Advanced Certificate, Women’s Studies; Center for the Study of Women and Society, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Area of Greatest Professional Interest

Writing Center Studies, Writing Program Administration, Queer and Feminist Pedagogy, Social Justice Assessment Frameworks, Assemblage Theory, Writing Ecologies, Queer and Feminist Rhetorics

Biography

Dr. Erin Andersen is the Dean of Academic Success and the Director of The Writing Collaboratory, Centenary University’s writing center. Formerly an English adjunct at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY and the developer of an online writing tutor program at Saint Elizabeth University, Dr. Andersen has dedicated her research, teaching, and administrative work to helping student writers navigate expectations of composing in the university using inclusive pedagogical frameworks.

Her research interests, focused on feminist, queer, and social justice paradigms in writing education, are evident in her dissertation, “Assessing the Cyborg Center: Assemblage-Based, Feminist Frameworks Toward Socially-Just Writing Center Assessments,” which uses archival methods and critical discourse analysis to examine a case study of one writing center’s assessment practices, making connections between writing center studies, assessment research, and intersectional feminist approaches to assemblage theory to foreground arguments for assemblage-based antiracist assessment protocols in writing centers.

Dr. Andersen can most often be found in the Academic Success Center or in the Writing Collaboratory, working with peer tutors to develop writing resources, workshops, and collaborative events with offices across the university to support student writers across all disciplines on campus. When she’s not in “the Collab”, Dr. Andersen runs a brewery with her husband in Warren County.

Publications

Spring 2023: “Faculty Writing Groups for Writing Center Professionals: Rethinking Scholarly Productivity.” Co-authored with Dr. Kara Alexander-Poe, Dr. Julia Bleakney, and Dr. Jennifer Daniel. Praxis: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, Vol. 20 No. 2.

Fall 2022: “Examining Retention at the SLAC: The Impact of Race, Class, and Resource Use on First Year Writing.” Co-authored with Dr. Lisa Mastrangelo. Writing Program Administration, Vol. 46 No. 1.

May/June 2022: “Retooling the OWC: Offering Clients Online Platform Choices During a Pandemic.” Co-authored with Dr. Sean Molloy. Writing Lab Newsletter, vol. 46, no. 9-10, pp. 3-10.

2015: “Making the Most and Best Use of Eggs: Producer-Consumers, Modernist Labor Periodicals, and the Rhetoric of The Farmer’s Wife.” From Installation to Remediation: The CWSHRC Digital New Works Showcase. Peitho, vol. 18, no. 1.

Select Presentations

2024, January: “Writing Center and Program Assessment at the SLAC.” SLAC-WPA 2024 Conference, Lafayette College, Easton, PA.

2021, March: “First Year Retention and the Writing Classroom: Assessing Concurrent Factors.” 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication, virtual. 

2019, October: “Guides, Advocates, Resources, and Evaluators: Some Practical Constraints and Opportunities in Democratizing WCs and Generating Knowledge.” Joint conference of the International Writing Centers Association and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing 2019, Columbus, OH.

2019, July: “Not Just in the State Schools: Supporting Working Class Students in SLACs.” Council of Writing Program Administrators 2019 Summer Conference, Baltimore, MD.

2019, July: “‘When Their Own Latent Power is Freed’: The Farmer’s Wife, the 1926 Farm Women’s Conference, and “Mama Grizzly” Activism, Then and Now.” Council of Writing Program Administrators 2019 Summer Conference, Baltimore, MD.

2018, October: “Peer-Tutor Collaborations and Developing Socially-Just Writing Center Assessments in the Face of Austerity.” II International Conference of The Latin American Association of Writing Studies in Higher Education and Professional Contexts (II ALES), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

2018, November: Co-Facilitator, Antiracist Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting. 2018 National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, South Padre Island, TX.

2018, November: “No Gas Money: Steering the WC Through Budgetary Constraints in the Neoliberal University.” 2018 National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, South Padre Island, TX.

2017, December: “Fail Hard and Prosper: Encouraging Exploration in Spaces of Digital Writing.” Rutherfurd Hall Centenary Invited Speaker Series, Rutherfurd Hall, Hackettstown, NJ.

2017, November: “Operation Collaboration: Uncovering Histories of Writing Center Assessment Networks.” 2017 International Writing Centers Association Conference, Chicago, IL.

2016, July: “Assessing Assemblages in the Online Writing Center: Multiliteracies and Labor Practices in a Theoretical Framework.” Council of Writing Program Administrators 2016 Summer Conference, Raleigh, NC.

Short Quote

“The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy” ― bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

“To live a feminist life is to make everything into something that is questionable.” ― Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life