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Director Kathleen Shine Cain was elected to the board of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing at the organization's June 2011 conference in Limerick, Ireland.

Student News

The National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing was held at Florida International University, Biscayne Bay, on the weekend of November 4-6, 2011.Writing Center tutors Emily Achilles and Jodie Gurry gave a  presentation titled "What Harry Potter Taught Me About Working in the Writing Center: Using Pop Culture to Make Sense of the Writing Center Experience; tutors Glenna Mugavero and Jennifer Pytel gave a presentation titled "Writing Professors, Writing Fellows, and the Teaching of Writing: Complex Relationships in a Writing fellows Program." Both presentations were exceptionally well received by an audience of peer and professional tutors, faculty, and Writing Center directors from all across the United States and countries as distant as Sweden and Japan. The tutors were accompanied by Writing Center Directors Kathleen Shine Cain and Kathryn Nielsen-Dube, and School of Liberal Arts Dean Michael Rossi.