Writing Center Tutors

To make an appointment with one of the Writing Center tutors, visit the Tutoring Schedule.

Carol
Carol has a BA in literature from UCSC and an MFA in literature and creative writing from Mills College. She currently teaches English at Merritt College, and also gives private piano lessons in her home. In all her spare time, she writes short stories, swims lots of laps, and devours "The Soaps."

Gwen
Gwen teaches a variety of writing classes at GGU, at the undergraduate and graduate level. A strong advocate of the Writing Center, she recommends that students visit the Center "early and often." She began teaching at Bay Area community colleges in l990 and came to GGU and the Writing Center soon after, in 1991. She obtained her masters in writing from Mills College in l989. When she is not teaching, tutoring, or grading papers, she takes care of her daughter, Emily, and her son, Cameron.

Janet
Janet is the coordinator of the Writing Center. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and Mills College, she has been teaching and tutoring at GGU for several years. She has also taught at Mills College, JFK University, and for Peralta Community College District. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in literary magazines and academic journals.

John
John has earned the equivalent of a master's degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley and is currently at work there on a PhD dissertation treating mathematics and linguistics as it is figured in select, experimental modern novels. John has taught literature and composition at both Cal and UC San Diego and can currently be found splitting his time between Berkeley and the GGU Writing Center and the Online Writing Lab. In addition to his academic interests in world literature, contemporary and historical linguistics and the history of science, John also has a passion for cats, his surfboard, his Golden State Warriors, and Bob Dylan.

Jonathan
Jonathan has been tutoring at Golden Gate University since May. He is completing a master's degree in literature and a certificate in composition at San Francisco State, where he has been studying since the dawn of time. He is also working toward a certificate in teaching ESL at UC Berkeley Extension. During those rare moments when Jonathan is not preparing for one of his classes or dwelling on thesis ideas, you are likely to find him tutoring at one of several Bay Area colleges. If he is not to be found at either place, perhaps he is reading, watching a movie, playing tennis, or riding his motorcycle up the coast. Jonathan is an eager learner and particularly appreciates the experiences that foreign students are eager to share. Blessed (cursed?) with an unquenchable wanderlust, he loves to travel and looks forward to seeing more of the world. He is, however, notoriously difficult to track down . . . but fortunately you can find him in the Writing Center.

Julianne
In addition to tutoring at the GGU Writing Center, Julianne teaches English composition at the Peralta Community College District. In her spare time she writes poetry and studies feline linguistic behavior and its effect on the human psyche. Studies show the cat's purr has a calming effect on humans and can even lower a person's heart rate. Julianne is certain that the Writing Center's friendly, constructive atmosphere has been known to produce the same stress-reducing effect on GGU students!

Katherine
Katherine Powell Cohen has degrees in English from Bryn Mawr College, New York University, and the University of Rhode Island. She has taught English at GGU since 1988 and has tutored in English at the Delores St. Shelter since 1995. Dr. Powell Cohen is also a theology student at the General Theological Union in Berkeley. Her book of poems Years to Heaven was published in the spring of 1998 by Mab Press.

Peg
Peg has a BA in English and Rhetoric from Binghamton University and an MA in Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Buffalo. She has been teaching courses in composition, technical writing, business writing, public speaking, business communication theory, linguistics, and literature at colleges and universities for 10 years. She's been teaching in the online format for CyberCampus for over 5 years now.

Rachel
Rachel has degrees in comparative literature and French, and has been tutoring English at the Writing Center since l992. She lived and studied in France and has traveled throughout Europe and North America. In her spare time, when she is not refereeing fights between her jealous cats, she reads, paints, and plays piano.

Tim
Tim, a graduate of UC Berkeley and Mills College, has been tutoring at the Writing Center since 1990. He has also taught composition at Canada College and GGU. In addition to tutoring, he works as a controller for a manufacturing company. He lives in Berkeley.