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

Publications and Presentations:

• "Marginalia: Teaching Texts, Teaching Readers, Teaching Writers" in Reader: Disciplinary Ways of Reading in English, forthcoming, June 2010.
• “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
• Email: ringer@tcnj.edu
• Office: Bliss Hall 210

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.