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Check out the bios below to find a consultant who fits your needs - or just for fun!
Every consultant has different ways of writing and every consultant provides different values and it is important to have different opinions. Overall, every consultant provides different values for my writing.
Amanda H Dance, Linguistics, & English Undergraduate Student
Amanda is an undergraduate student from Massachusetts. Her interests include anything in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. She loves to dance, paint, read psychological thrillers, travel, study foreign languages, and listen to true crime podcasts. Amanda plans to perform as a professional dancer after college, then pursue a graduate degree in linguistics. In the writing center, she enjoys meeting students from diverse backgrounds and learning from them and their experiences.
Amy G English Doctoral Student
Amy loves teaching science writing, and her current research focuses on the connections among different forms of popular genre fiction. Her other research interests include literary postmodernism, Derridean philosophy, the history of science, and animal studies. In her spare time, she's a dedicated cat whisperer.
Antonio C English Undergraduate Student
Antonio is an undergraduate, studying English literature and the crafts of poetry and prose. If he isn’t currently writing, he’s definitely planning on it. His other interests include building LEGO, drinking coffee, and thinking too hard about Star Wars
Ava H. English Doctoral Student
Ava studies transgender writing at the boundary between text and image. She is also interested in disability justice, mad pride, neurodivergent rights activism, and niche online communities. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys playing obscure video games, making music visualizers, and spending time with her cats.
Botan D Philosophy Doctoral Student
Botan studies philosophy, and his main research interests are the nature of agency and reasoning. He also studied psychology as an undergraduate. Some of his non-academic goals are to produce electronic music, learn to speak German, and become an amateur astronomer.
The CEW celebrates translingualism. Botan is fluent in Turkish and happy to work with Turkish-speaking students.
Brandon B History Doctoral Student
An old boss once told Brandon that being able to write a good email would lead to easier jobs and less time unloading trucks. Brandon never forgot that advice. He no longer has that job and is now a PhD candidate in History studying how the possible decimation of beaver populations during the early fur trade era might have affected the Seneca in the 17th century. He also likes breakfast and woodworking.
BreAnna R English Doctoral Student
BreAnna's research interests include African American literature, Black feminist thought, and contemplative pedagogy. She enjoys pilates, yoga, singing, reading, and biking in her free time. She co-hosts a writing group for graduate students of color every Sunday from 1pm-4pm.
BreAnna’s consulting style uses contemplative pedagogy which involves teaching mindfulness, reflection, creativity, and compassion when writing.
Carissa D Doctoral Student English
Carissa's research interests include 20th/21st century postconflict literature, trauma studies, postcolonial studies, and science fiction. She holds an MA in psychology from the University of Denver, and an MA in English from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Cassidy P Classics Doctoral Student
Cassidy is a native Floridian pursuing her PhD in the Classics Department. Her research focuses on Roman ceramics in the Arno Valley. Outside of school, she loves cooking and baking bread, vegetable gardening, and taking her dog Baco on adventures.
Ciara F English Doctoral Student
Ciara is currently a second-year PhD student in the English Department at UB. Her interests vary from "pop" Shakespeare adaptations and appropriations to comic books, graphic novels, and cultural studies. In her free time, Ciara enjoys running, fangirling over any and all Marvel and DC content, and taking care of her three cats, Tasha, Bruce, and Peaches (pictured).
Duncan M Engineering Education Doctoral Student
Duncan is a PhD candidate in Engineering Education, studying specifically how future engineering faculty consider learning and teaching. He enjoys reading fantasy novels, staying inside and looking at the snow with his cats, and strategy video games. Duncan also has been described by friends as a social butterfly, and has embraced that reputation.
Emily A Linguistics Undergraduate Student
I am a Linguistics undergraduate student. I have a huge interest in learning more about different cultures. I am also taking Korean language classes and planning to study abroad in the future; I am fluent in all areas of Spanish as well. In my spare time I enjoy knitting, playing violin and ukulele, as well as baking sweet pastries and painting. I like reading, collecting rare coins from around the world and sleeping :) I have a Mini-Pin named Mia and lastly my favorite flowers are daisies.
The CEW celebrates translingualism. Emily is fluent in Spanish and happy to work with Spanish-speaking students.
Eric V English/Computer Science
Eric is interested in new ways of reading various avant-guard, experimental, and liminal textual practices, particularly those dealing with scientific discourses and atypical fiction writing methodologies. His dissertation focuses on the fiction of William S. Burroughs.
As a CEW consultant, he enjoys working on graduate-level papers, dissertations, and peer-reviewed articles in STEM fields.
Farrah G Business Administration Undergraduate Student
Jade D English Undergraduate Student
Hello my name is Jade Dennis, an undergraduate senior studying English here at UB. Writing has transformed the way I market myself to professionals and everyday interactions. That said, I aim to help students enjoy the writing process and develop skills that carryover to real life.
Jermaline C Law Student
Hello fellow writers! My name is Jermaline and it is my pleasure to work with you and help you with your writing. I am a law school student who came to UB to learn the law and how to best practice it. A few months ago I graduated from St. John Fisher University located in Rochester NY, but originally, I am from Brooklyn, NY and I am Haitian American.
Jake S English Doctoral Student
Jake's research interests include nationalism and national identities in twentieth-century British and Irish fiction, literature and social sciences, transnational literature relating to migration, and film studies. He enjoys photography, visiting museums, biking, and cooking.
Juntralai (Jun) M Environmental Studies Undergraduate Student
Jun is currently a third-year undergrad studying Environmental Studies with a minor in Studio Art and Earth System Science. Their career interests include horticulture, conservation, and environmental education. She is highly involved in the LGBTA club as Event Coordinator and loves to plan events. In her spare time, she likes to spend time on a variety of creative projects like doll making, crochet, and fine arts.
Schedule an appointment with Juntralai
Lianzi (Lily) O Education Leadership & Policy Doctoral Student
Lily is currently focusing on her dissertation proposal and her research interests in education policy, racial discrimination, comparative studies, gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, critical race theory, and queer theory. Writing is one of her passions. As a qualitative researcher, she enjoys observation and interaction with different people of diverse backgrounds. In the Writing Center, she loves to learn from others and seeks to sharpen her skills further.
The CEW celebrates translingualism. Lily is fluent in Mandarin and is happy to work with Mandarin speaking writers.
Maria A Environmental Studies Undergraduate Student
Maria is an undergraduate in Environmental Studies, as well as an amateur connoisseur of teas and birdwatching.
Maya P English Education (UB Teach) Master's Student
Maya is a part of the UB Teach program, studying English Education with the intent of becoming a high school English teacher. She has a background in working with non-native English speakers and is interested in learning about diverse perspectives while making important interpersonal connections. In her free time, she enjoys playing soccer, traveling, and writing poetry.
The CEW celebrates translingualism. Maya is fluent in Spanish and is happy to work with Spanish-speaking students.
Nehal V Art History Undergraduate Student
Nehal is an undergraduate student studying art history at UB. They've always had an interest in English and enjoy getting to work with other students at the center. In their free time they enjoy reading, crochet, horror movies, going for walks, and spending time with their friends.
Ryan B English Doctoral Student
Ryan is a writer and musician from Florida. As a PhD student in English and Poetics at UB, his current research examines uses of the voice in 20th-century experimental music and poetry.
Sherika C Social Psychology Doctoral Student
Sherika holds a bachelor's degree in psychology, a master's degree in social work, and is now a second-year doctoral student studying social psychology. Her research interests are loosely based on understanding how people are psychologically and personally impacted by sociohistorical factors. When Sherika is not working as a research lab manager, writing consultant, co-facilitator of a writing group for graduate students of color, and chair of the student committee at The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, she enjoys dancing, music, reading, swimming, yoga, and good laughs with great people.
Spencer W English Doctoral Student
Spencer Williams is currently a PhD student in Poetics at UB. Her research interests include contemporary trans poetics, documentary poetics, queer theory, and film theory. She received her MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University-Newark.
Tommy M. Doctoral Student English
Tommy is a 1st year PhD Student in the Poetry and Poetics program. They are currently focused on contemporary experimental poetry, post-colonial poetics, ecopoetry and ecocriticism, new materialism, performance studies and sound studies. They received their BFA in Performance, Writing and Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020. Outside of school they are a muscial and an artist, and they enjoy cooking, traveling, hiking, and spending tiem with friends.
Schedule an appointment with Tommy.
Yan H. Masters Student in Education
Yan Hoang is currently in the Education Studies program pursuing an EdM. Yan also is highly interested in translation. They enjoy translating overseas media and subtitling cartoons and typesetting comics.
Yan also can understand Mandarin and is fluent in Cantonese, and welcomes working with bilingual/ENL writers.
Yueqiu (QQ) Z Learning and Instruction (LAI) Doctoral Student
Yueqiu, who also goes by QQ, was born and raised in China. She is getting her doctoral degree in Education, with a research interest in the second language writer’s engagement with on-script feedback. She’s also working on research projects to enhance inclusion in higher-ed for international students. QQ has organized or been involved in programs and activities to advocate for international students and to enhance the quality of their experience at UB. She craves road trips, and there are three must-go sites on her travel checklist: a museum, National State Parks, and an outdoor market.
The CEW celebrates translingualism. QQ is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and is happy to work with Mandarin Chinese-speaking students.
All of our consultants are students! We employ undergraduate, MA level, and PhD level consultants. While our consultants come from a variety of disciplines and are at different stages of their academic journeys, they share one thing in common: they are passionate about their own development as writers, and they find working with hardworking, engaged fellow writers to be rewarding work.
Undergraduate consultants take a semester-long preparation course for working at the Center in which they look at theories of learning and writing development, as well as practical strategies for helping writers.
Many of our graduate consultants have experience and coursework related to teaching or help us to extend our disciplinary knowledge about writing.
Our goal is that our CEW community be as diverse as our student community. That means we love to hire students from different racial, ethnic, linguistic, national, socioeconomic, and gender backgrounds. Consultants who have experience overcoming adversity, coping with learning differences, studying outside of their native languages, add to our overall understanding of how to best support all UB writers.
CEW consultants regularly share perspectives and learn new concepts and skills through our professional development program. Your feedback is also vitally important for our continuous improvement.