Director and Associate Professor of Instruction, The Cook Family Writing Program; Director, The Writing Place
PhD, Northwestern University; MA, Columbia University; BA, Tufts University
Email: e-lenaghan@northwestern.edu
Elizabeth Lenaghan directs the Graduate Writing Place, which provides writing consultations to graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, and faculty at Northwestern. She received her PhD in Media, Technology & Society from the School of Communication in 2012. In her role at the Graduate Writing Place, Elizabeth manages a group of PhD candidates who serve as graduate writing fellows and provide assistance about writing in a variety of genres, including coursework, dissertation proposals and chapters, fellowship applications, and manuscripts for publication. She also facilitates writing workshops, interdisciplinary writing groups, and dissertation boot camps for graduate students. In 2014, Elizabeth earned a Graduate School Service Award for her work. She is currently the faculty-in-residence in the Elder Residential Community.
Elizabeth’s work in the Writing Program and the Writing Place is inspired by a desire to help students grow to become the best writers they can be while cultivating healthy attitudes toward writing as both a product and a process. She thinks it is especially important for doctoral students to embrace writing as part of their identity–a means through which ideas are cultivated, but also a mode of thinking and creating knowledge that matters in particular disciplines and fields.
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