Writing Center Tutors '07 - '08


The Writing Center Tutors are Haverford students who have been nominated by faculty and selected for their writing and tutoring abilities. They represent a wide range of majors and are trained to help you at any stage in the writing process, with writing in any discipline or course.

Some things that tutors will do: brainstorm with you about an assignment; help you refine your argument; give advice on grammar and style; help organize and sharpen your thoughts; give constructive feedback

Some things that tutors won't do: act as a proofreading service; rewrite your paper; fix all your typos; guarantee you higher grades

Meet the peer tutors
Meet the non-peer tutors
Make an appointment

Dan Arnstein ’09 is a psychology major and economics minor. Despite his questionable athletic talent, Dan is a member of the fencing team and enjoys basketball in his spare time. Dan has been looking for a backgammon opponent at Haverford since freshman year, so he will probably ask you if you know how to play.

 

Elana Bloomfield is a senior from Charlottesville, Virginia, majoring in religion. When she's not studying, she is most likely searching for that ever-elusive, perfect coffee shop where she can settle in and read a great book. At the moment, a few of her favorite books/plays are The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein, Sula by Toni Morrison, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.

Jillian Bunyan is a senior English major from Colesville, MD. She loves postcolonialist poetry and novels with intricate lyrical style. She is delighted to have the chance to help people love writing as much as she does. Jillian spends her free time being Oxford Blues president, Lunt Café manager, and finding the time to enjoy Haverford to the fullest.

Jacob Carroll '09, an art history and English major, was born and raised in Rome, Italy and will therefore be celebrating the Old Country's victory in the World Cup for the next four years. Though interested in such historical figures as St. Simeon the Stylite and his followers, Jacob is far from adopting the life of a hermit in light of his equal enjoyment of travel, theater, concerts, and witty banter.

Philip Edmundson is a senior from Houston, Texas. He graduated from St. Thomas high school in 2004 and is currently studying philosophy and Latin as he prepares for medical school. He enjoys reading sci-fi novels written by William Gibson, Neal Stevenson, Frank Herbert and Gene Wolfe.

Sophia Khan '08 is an English major and a sociology minor. She grew up mostly in Islamabad, Pakistan, but has lived here, there and everywhere since moving to America in her senior year of high school. She enjoys showers, inventive cookery and, of course, reading. Her current passion is trashy romance novels, which she collects for their lurid covers and general brilliance.

Nick Lotito, a sophomore from Southern California, plans to major in the social sciences. He enjoys singing with the Haverford Humtones a capella group and giving campus tours for the admissions office. Nick loves learning about foreign cultures and playing sports in causal, low-achievement settings.

Julia McGuire is a junior from Bethesda, MD. She is a comparative literature major (Spanish and English) and a concentrator in Latin American Studies. Julia plays field hockey for Haverford and also serves on the editorial board of the Haverford Journal.

Nina Morton is a senior from Northern California majoring in chemistry and English. She likes to see any theatre she can get tickets to, run, play the flute, and read Austen, Dickens, Sayers, and Harry Potter.

Max Rosen-Long is a junior English major, minoring in Political Science. He is from Brooklyn, NY and proud of it (of course). He is a member of Haverford's fencing team and enjoys being overly idealistic. He has a bad habit of judging books by their covers (at least the ones with really cool covers).

Dan Sacks is a senior from Belmont, MA. He's currently an economics major, and formerly a history major. He hopes to go on to study economics in graduate school. He reads a wide range of novels but especially enjoys everything in The New Yorker and the food criticism in The New York Times.

Fay Strongin is a sophomore from Brookline, MA, and will likely major in Political Science. She likes sparkly things, including dance parties, Montreal, thrift store bling, and Political Science. Although Fay is passionate about literature, she doesn't typically re-read books; two notable exceptions are The Maggie B. and Bread and Jam for Frances.

Daniel Studenmund is a senior math major who hails from Evanston, IL. His hobbies at school include messing around with the Honor Code and poking around places that he probably shouldn't. He also loves games, puzzles, juggling, whistling, and words that start with "meta."
Sarah Walker is a senior from Wilton, Connecticut majoring in English and planning to get certified to teach. She is also on the field hockey and track teams, and plays oboe in the orchestra. She enjoys reading almost anything, but her most recent favorite is 1984.
Jane Weber is a senior at Haverford majoring in anthropology. She is from Chicago and runs Cross Country and Track for the college. She loves meeting new people and hopes that all of you will stop by the Writing Center very soon.
Want to make an appointment with one of these tutors? Click here!
Aaron Wile is a senior history major from Wilbraham, MA. His favorite book is As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, but he'll read almost anything he can get his hands on. Aaron finds writing a difficult but rewarding process, so he sympathizes with the pain that comes with trying to write a paper. He also enjoys tennis.
The Emergency Tutor will come to your dorm with writing assistance at any hour of day or night. If only!

 

 

NON-PEER TUTORS

 

In addition to our talented staff of peer tutors, the Writing Center is pleased to introduce our non-student tutors.

Joshua Brooks holds an M.S. in Education from Lesley College and has extensive experience working with multilingual undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania's English Language Program, Princeton University's English Language Program, the Youngdo English School in Seoul, Korea, and other institutions. Josh taught a Writing Seminar at Haverford last semester that focused on transcultural perspectives on justice.

Josh will be in the Writing Center at Zubrow on Wednesdays from 5 to 7 and from 8 to10 p.m. Make an online appointment with Josh. You can make an appointment at other hours by emailing Josh at jbrooks@haverford.edu.

Cedric Tolliver will be working primarily with senior thesis-writers and with juniors starting to engage with challenging work in their major. Cedric is completing his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. His interests include African diaspora literary and intellectual history, Francophone literature, and postcolonial literary theory. His dissertation is entitled "Brothers without Borders: The Cosmopolitan and Transatlantic Cultures of the African-Americas, 1944-1967."

If you would like to work with Cedric, please contact Kristin Lindgren (klindgre@haverford.edu) or Alisa Hartz (ahartz1@haverford.edu), co-directors of the Writing Center.

Make an appointment
Back to Writing Center main page