Author Nicole B. Wallack

Nicole B. Wallack

Nicole B. Wallack, PhD, is the Director of Columbia University's Undergraduate Writing Program. Her fields of interest are essay studies, writing studies, rhetoric and composition, history of the essay, creative nonfiction, teacher education, and American studies. She is also an associate of the Institute for Writing and Thinking (IWT) at Bard College. At Bard, she designs and conducts workshops for educators on the essay, assessment, writing-to-learn practices, writing across the curriculum, and listening as a pedagogical praxis. She works as a Writing Across the Curriculum consultant in high schools and colleges around the country and abroad.

“The Essay is the Genre of Presence”: An Interview with Nicole B. Wallack

Nicole B. Wallack

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Nicole B. Wallack, Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program at Columbia University, knows her way around the essay. Her new book, Crafting Presence, not only shows instructors how to teach writing via...

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Author Nicole B. Wallack

Nicole B. Wallack

“The Essay is the Genre of Presence”: An Interview with Nicole B. Wallack