Writing Faculty & Staff

Mary Goldschmidt

• Director
• Phone: (609) 771-2864
• Email: goldschm@tcnj.edu
• Office: Green Hall 109

Degrees Earned:

• Ph.D. English and Women’s Studies, Emory University (Atlanta, GA) 1992
• B.A. English, La Salle University (Philadelphia, PA) 1987

Teaches:

• WRI 101
• WRI 102
• First Seminar

Presentations and Publications:

• “Improving Student Writing,” American Association of Colleges of Nursing Master’s Education Conference, Newport Beach, CA, February 22, 2008.

• “Ditto, What They Say”: Using They Say / I Say in a First Year Academic Writing Course to Teach Argumentation” New Jersey Writing Alliance, May 21, 2007.

• “Teaching Depression Memoirs: A Region Off Limits?” College English Association, San Antonio, Texas, April 6, 2006.

• “Autobiology:  Self-Representations of Depression in Black and White Women,” Maine Women Writers Conference, Women, Health, and Representation, University of New England, June, 2004
• “Self-Disclosure or Self-Creation?  The Ethics of Using Autobiography in the Composition Classroom,” CEA Critic 57.1 (Fall 1994):  98-110.  Won “Best Article of the Year” Award for CEA Critic.

Also at TCNJ:

• Serves on the Liberal Learning Program Council and the First Seminar Coordinating Committee.

Personal:

• Mary is avid cyclist and a hospice volunteer

Nina Ringer

• Coordinator of WRI 101
• Phone: (609) 771-2506 or (609)771-2864
• Email: ringer@tcnj.edu
• Office: Bliss Hall 203

Degrees Earned:

• M.A., English. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
• A.B., English. University of California, Berkeley, CA

Teaches:

• WRI 101
• WRI 102
• First Seminar

Presentations:

• “Reading a Film and Tutoring Students Through the Drafts.” New Jersey Writing Alliance Conference. Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ. May 2007.

• “Writing Across the State: A New Jersey High School/College Writing Collaboration.”  With Barbara Hartnett and Donna Anderson, Lacey Township High School. New Jersey Writing Alliance Conference. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. April 2005.

Previous Teaching Appointments/Positions Held:

• Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY, teaching in New York State Correctional Facilities.
• SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
• New York University, New York
• John Jay College, New York

Also at TCNJ:

• Assessment and Placement reader (2003-present)
• Member, Writing Program Committee (2003-2008)
• Faculty Advisor. Peer Mediation Club (2002-2005)
• Member, Rhetoric Committee (2000-2003)

Personal:

• Nina joined the TCNJ faculty in 1998. Her research interests include film, politics, and teaching writing through themes.

"I have two masters degrees from TCNJ/TSC (MAT and English) and a business background from a previous life. I like to incorporate politics and social justice issues into class readings and discussions when possible. Come write with me! "

Janet Hubbard

• Phone: (609) 771-2296
• Email: hubbard@tcnj.edu
• Office: Bliss Hall 206

"If the act of writing charts the process of thought, it's a process that leaves a trail, like a series of fossilized footprints. Other art forms can last and last --painting, sculpture, music-- but they do not
survive as voice."

--Margaret Atwood
 

Kelsey Maki

• Phone: (609) 771-2969
• Email: maki@tcnj.edu
• Office: Bliss Hall 210

"I've worked as a professional writer for more 20 years on three different continents, including Australia. I've written for newspapers, magazines, web sites, trade journals and women's health books. I often encourage my students to choose their own topics for my academic writing course. Writing about a topic that engages them often fires my students' creativity with a passion that teaches them just how powerful the written word can be. "

Janet Mazur

• Phone: (609) 771-2969
• Email: jmazur@tcnj.edu
• Office: Bliss Hall 210

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"We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is to see what's behind it, to see the bleak unspeakable stuff, and to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words but if we can, into rhythm and blues. You can't do this without discovering your own true voice, and you can't find your true voice and peer behind the door and report honestly and clearly to us if your parents are reading over your shoulder."

-- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

Tina Morse

• Phone: (609) 771-2296
• Email: morse2@tcnj.edu
• Office: Bliss Hall 206

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."

-- Chinese Proverb

Janet Nielsen

• Phone: (609) 771-2969
• Email: nielsen@tcnj.edu
• Office: Bliss Hall 210