Assistant Professor of Instruction in The Cook Family Writing Program; Director, The Writing Place
PhD, Northwestern University; MA, Georgetown University; BA, Georgia State University
Email: meaghan.fritz@northwestern.edu
Meaghan Fritz directs the Main Library Writing Place, which is staffed by juniors and seniors and primarily serves Northwetsern undergraduates. Meaghan received her PhD in English from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences in 2018. As a graduate student, Meaghan worked closely with the Writing Program, serving as a Graduate Writing Fellow for four years. During her time as a fellow she held hundreds of one-on-one writing consultations with graduate students across disciplines, facilitated interdisciplinary writing groups, and led writing workshops. She is thrilled to continue this work as an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Writing Program with responsibilities in the operation of both the Writing Place and the Graduate Writing Place. She currently co-teaches Eng 304: Practical Rhetoric, a course designed for undergraduate students preparing to begin their work as tutors at the Writing Place. She also facilitates interdisciplinary writing groups and dissertation boot camps for graduate students.
Meaghan’s work in the Writing Program and Writing Place centers on the belief that the best writing occurs in collaboration. Despite romanticized fictions of the writer as a solitary genius hacking away at their art in isolation, Meaghan’s experiences as both a writer and a teacher of writing routinely shatter this myth. She deeply believes in the power of conversation about one’s writing to unblock writer’s block, ease writing anxieties, and to inspire ideas that the writer might never have gotten to on their own.
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