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sara berrey

After a three-year hiatus, I am happy to return to the Center for Writing as a TWW TA. Putting pedagogy in practice, I work with faculty and graduate students both in-person and on-line. My work with our Pedagogy Discussion Group and Writing Instruction Workshops is complemented by my reinvigoration of the TWW section of our website. Please email me with any concerns about your teaching with writing or any suggestions about our website.

I am also a PhD Candidate in the English Department finishing my dissertation, “Generations in Print: Revision in American Literature 1850–1900.” In my scholarship I examine authorial and editorial revision practices during a key moment in American history when printing technologies multiplied publishing formats and widened reader access to printed materials. I analyze how those revisions negotiate reader communities, including juvenile readers, elite coteries, and broadly national audiences. Examining textual and material revision practices provides an index to the dynamics of nineteenth-century American literary culture and pictures readers and writers in action. My research in revision provides a stimulating historical backdrop for my current work at TWW balancing writing instruction and writers' strategies.