Dr. Claire Mischker is the Graduate Writing Center Director as well as a Lecturer of Composition for the Department of Writing & Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi.
Biography
Dr. Claire Mischker earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English from Winthrop University in South Carolina and completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Mississippi with a concentration in Modern American Literature. Her literary research focuses on gender theory in the novels of William Faulkner, and she has participated in various regional, national, and international conferences on Writing Center theory. She has worked in Writing Centers at both Winthrop and UM and has been working extensively with graduate writers since 2013.
Courses Taught
- Engl 222 Survey of World Literature since 1650
- Engl 223 Survey of American Lit to the Civil War
- Engl 391 Jr Seminar: Major Authors of Amer Lit
- Liba 102 First Year Seminar
- Writ 101 First-Year Writing I
- Writ 250 Advanced Composition
- Writ 310 Writing in Professional Contexts
- Writ 370 Editing and Proofreading
Education
B.A. English, 003456 WINRHROP COLLEGE (1996)
M.A. English, 003456 WINRHROP COLLEGE (2000)
Ph.D. English, The University of Mississippi (2013)