Thomas Polk, PhD
Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
Innovation Hall, Room 433
[email protected]
Thomas Polk serves as the Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at George Mason University where he also teaches writing and rhetoric in the English department. Tom regularly facilitates professional development events on writing-enriched teaching and learning and has published on writing development, assignment design, mentoring, and research methodologies in writing studies. His scholarship appears in College Composition and Communication, WAC Journal, SPUR among other venues. His current research projects focus on (1) leadership and changemaking in higher education and (2) access and development in undergraduate research programs. These projects emerge out of research interests in WAC/WID, writing development, assessment, career preparation, professional development, and authenticity in education.
Katherine Miscavige, PhD
Senior Faculty Associate, Writing Across the Curriculum
[email protected]
Katherine Miscavige serves as Senior Faculty Associate for Writing Across the Curriculum and term Associate Professor in the English Department, where she most frequently teaches online sections of English 302: Advanced Composition. Because of that experience, she is deeply interested in writing pedagogy for online learning, as well as the impact of AI on the profession. Her current research projects focus on this intersection: how AI impacts faculty decision-making in writing assignment design, how both students and faculty in writing-intensive courses are using (or avoiding) AI, and how AI is influencing feedback practices. A medievalist by training, she also occasionally teaches a class on the legends of King Arthur.