About Us

The Writing and Rhetoric Program at UVA offers a wide range of first-year writing courses and a growing selection of courses for undergraduates beyond the first year.  Our program also helps prepare faculty and graduate students to teach writing in disciplines across the college curriculum, and we participate in efforts to improve the teaching of writing in local area secondary schools. 

For undergraduates, the program offers a variety of courses that fulfill the First Writing Requirement, including the single-semester ENWR 1510 as well as a year-long course, ENWR 1505/1506. All of these courses approach writing as a form of critical inquiry that enables students to reflect on complex problems in light of how others have attempted to address them.  We also offer a set of advanced writing courses that meet the Second Writing Requirement and give students a chance to engage in particular forms of writing they find especially useful or  interesting. 

For graduate students who teach first-year writing, the program offers a Pedagogy Seminar (ENGL 8900) each spring and a series of workshops on writing instruction throughout the year.  We also offer a week-long Faculty Seminar on the Teaching of Writing each May for UVA faculty in any school or department who wish to improve their writing instruction, writing assignments, and response to their students’ written work.

Administrators

 

T. Kenny Fountain, Director of Writing & Rhetoric - tkf3bb@virginia.edu

Steph Ceraso, Associate Director of Writing & Rhetoric - slc7wd@virginia.edu

Dylan Kellum, Administrative Assistant - dck4bqc@virginia.edu 

Claire Chantell, Writing Center Co-Director - cc2de@virginia.edu

Kevin Smith, Writing Center Co-Director - kgs8th@virginia.edu

Heidi Nobles, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum - hn3dg@virginia.edu 


2023-2024 Mentoring Team (September - May)

 

Coordinator of Graduate Student Pedagogy Programming

John Modica

 

Mentor Coordinators

Mary Ruth Robinson

Eyal Handlesman Katz

Courtney Watts

 

Mentors

Peyton Davis

Katherine Churchill

Seanna Viechweg

Stephen Hager

Viola Cozzio