Formerly Director of Composition at Drew, Dr. Jamieson has also served as chair of the English Department. She earned her doctorate at Binghamton University in 1991. As Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, she works with faculty as they develop and teach Writing Intensive and Writing in the Major courses and trains and supervises Van Houten and Drew Seminar Course-Embedded Writing Fellows. She teaches a variety of Writing Studies courses in the College and Graduate School, and is the 2004 recipient of the Will Herberg Distinguished Professor Award.
Her research spans the field of Writing Studies, including Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), authorship studies, writing theory and pedagogy, the emerging writing major, and information literacy and research methods. She is a Citation Project principal investigator (a multi-site quantitative and qualitative study of student source-use practices), and is currently working on a book drawing on that research, Struggling with Sources (with Rebecca Moore Howard, 2018). Sandra has co-edited three collections, Points of Departure: Rethinking Student Source Use and Writing Studies Research Methods (forthcoming 2017), Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration across Disciplines (2016), and Coming of Age: The Advanced Undergraduate Writing Curriculum (CWPA Best Book of 2000-2001). She also published The Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the Disciplines (1994). (See her website and cv for more information).
Dr. Lloyd’s interest in writing studies and, specifically, in helping others develop their capacities as writers and communicators took root when, on a whim, he applied to be an undergraduate tutor at a writing center at the University of Washington. From there, after briefly plying his writing, editing, and mentoring skills in both for-profit and non-profit settings, he enrolled in graduate school at UC Irvine. During his graduate studies, he focused on studying the complex connections that writers and communicators forge with the locations they inhabit. For instance, he researched and wrote about how LeBron James assumed the role of regional rhetor when announcing his return to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016, how students influenced a contentious debate in the 1980s about siting the Nixon presidential library at UC Irvine, and how students from underrepresented backgrounds adapt their rhetorical habits and abilities to college campuses.
Since arriving at Drew in 2018, he has continued exploring the relationships that students have with campuses, including the recent sanctuary campus movement, and has also branched out into travel writing, publishing a piece on teaching the travel sketches of Matsuo Bashō. Reflecting these interests, he teaches courses that involve place-based writing, archival and ethnographic research, and opportunities for students to think capaciously about their development as writers and communicators in college and beyond.
Dr. Max Orsini is a professor of Writing, English, and American Studies, and serves as the University Writing Center’s Graduate and ELL Writing Support Specialist at Drew University. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Max earned his B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Washington College in Maryland in 2003, and earned his Master’s in English (2005) and his Doctorate in Arts and Letters (2016) right here at Drew. It was his graduate work at Drew that inspired Max to publish his first book, The Buddhist Beat Poetics of Diane di Prima and Lenore Kandel (Beatdom Press, 2018). In addition to 1960s literature and culture, Max’s teaching and research interests include American and World Poetry, Western Short Story, American Pop Culture and Cultural Memory, Eastern Religious and Aesthetic Thought, American Women’s Experience(s), and Folk and Rock music. Outside of class, Max is also a singer-songwriter, performer, and frequent recorder of music, partaking frequently in the local NJ music scene.
Dr. Griffin received her D.Litt from Drew University in 2015 and her M.Litt in 2011. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in English and Italian. Her scholarly interests include writing pedagogy, trauma theory, and feminist and gender studies.
