Liz Fenton, Graduate Writing Center Coordinator & Professor of English
Liz (she/they) joined the Graduate Writing Center in the Fall of 2023 and has been a member of the UVM faculty since 2007. She teaches courses in colonial American and early U.S. literatures, as well as Book History. She has two small printing presses on campus and enjoys working with students on letterpress and bookmaking projects. Her research explores the intersections of literary and religious texts, and for the past decade she has been working on topics related to the Book of Mormon. She holds bachelor’s degrees in English and Women’s Studies from UVM, and a Ph.D. from Rice University.
April Christenson, Program Coordinator
April (she/her) joined the Writing in the Disciplines Program in 2016. As Program Coordinator, she provides operational and budget support, coordinates events, and manages communications, including program materials and the websites, for WID and the UVM Writing Centers. April holds a BA in biology from the University of Vermont. Prior to coming to this position at UVM, she provided medical office support and owned her own business.
Graduate Writing Consultants
Meet the consultants who staff the Graduate Writing Center.
Holly Painter, Interim Graduate Writing Center Coordinator 22/23 & Lecturer of English
Holly (she/they) joined the faculty at UVM in 2016. She teaches in the English department and the Honors College, as well as in programs including the Liberal Arts in Prison Program, the First-Year Seminar Program, the Liberal Arts Scholars Program, and the Arts & Creativity Learning Community. Holly holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand and is the author of four collections of poetry. Prior to coming to UVM, Holly worked as an academic copy-editor and volunteered at the K-12 creative writing non-profit 826michigan. Holly is the Interim Coordinator for the Graduate Writing Center for the 2022/23 academic year.
English Department, Old Mill
Email: Holly.Painter@uvm.edu
Nancy Welch, Emeriti Professor of English & Past Graduate Writing Center Coordinator (2015-2022)
Nancy taught at the University of Vermont from 1995 to 2022. Her recent scholarship includes Composition in the Age of Austerity (Utah State University Press, 2016), Unruly Rhetorics (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), plus articles on public writing and social movement rhetoric in College English, Pedagogy, and the Community Literacy Journal. With the Graduate Writing Center's peer consultants, she is especially interested in helping graduate student writers in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities grasp the rhetorical features and explore the rhetorical possibilities of the academic genres in their fields.