Graduate Faculty

Anna Rita Napoleone, Lecturer and Writing Center Director and Site Director of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project, B.A., New York Hunter College, 1995; M.A., Long Island, 2002; Ph.D., Massachusetts Amherst, 2017. Chapter in Out in the Center: Public Controversies and Private Struggles; article in Pedagogy Journal.

Bruce M. Penniman, Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of Writing Coordinator, B.A., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1971; M.A., 1974;Ed.D., 1985. His book Building the English Classroom: Foundations, Support, Success, was published by NCTE in 2009. He was the 1999 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year.

Donna LeCourt, Associate Professor of English, B.S., Fitchburg State, 1985; M.A., Washington State, 1987; Ph.D., Ohio State, 1993. Her book, Identity Matters: Schooling the Student Body in Academic Discourse, was published by SUNY Press in 2004, and her co-edited collection, Rewriting Success in Rhetoric and Composition, was published by Parlor Press in 2012.

Western Massachusetts Writing Project Teacher-Consultants: Some courses in the Certificate in the Teaching of Writing program are co-taught by WMWP teacher-consultants from regional schools and colleges.