Graduate Writing Center Consultants
Outreach Coordinator
Haixia He, GWC TA
haixia.he@wsu.edu
Ph.D. Student, Language, Literacy, and Technology, WSU
Research Interests: Blended/Hybrid Teaching
and Learning, Student Engagement, Academic
Writing, Second Language Teaching, and Learning
GWC Consultant
Melanie Thongs
melanie.thongs@wsu.edu
Ph.D. Physics, WSU
MFA, Creative Writing, Nonfiction, University of Idaho
Editor, WSU Professional Editing Service Center
Instructor, WSU Writing Program
Former Instructor, First-year Composition and Creative Writing, University of Idaho
GWC Consultant
Henry Landis
PhD student, School of Biological Sciences, WSU.
Research interests: oak systematics, hybridization, reticulate evolution, ecological adaptations.
GWC Consultant
Chris Duke
christopher.duke@wsu.edu
Ph.D. Biological Sciences, WSU
MS Biology, Syracuse University
BS Biology/Zoology, Western Washington University
Research Interests: Restoration & Conservation of Endangered Ecosystems; Fish Physiology, Phenotypic Plasticity, & Genomics; Aquaculture Systems
GWC Consultant
Bill Engels
william.engels@wsu.edu
Ph.D. English Literature, Saint Louis University
International Instructor of Writing and Literature 1998 – 2014
Former Principal of English Medium School in Bangladesh
Instructor of English at WSU’s Intensive American Language Center
Instructor of Writing at Spokane Falls Community College
GWC Consultant
Richard Fiordo
richard.fiordo@wsu.edu
Ph.D. Communication, University of Illinois MA Speech, San Francisco State College BA English, Northern Illinois University
Professor Emeritus, University of North Dakota
Major Research and Publications Fields: Semiotics, Rhetoric, General Semantics, Media Criticism, Intercultural Communication, Propaganda Analysis, and Medical Education
GWC Consultant
Gavin Doyle
Ph.D. student, Rhetoric and Composition, WSU
M.A., Rhetoric and Composition, California State University, San Bernardino
Instructor, ENGL 101, WSU
Research Interests: Prison Abolition Studies, Prison Pedagogy, Social Justice Pedagogy, Disability Studies, and Political Economy and Rhetoric
GWC Coordinator
Amy Whitcomb
amy.whitcomb@wsu.edu
M.F.A., Creative Writing (nonfiction), University of Idaho
M.S., Environmental Science, University of Idaho
Instructor, WSU Writing Program