Nicole MacLaughlin
Assistant Teaching Professor, University Writing Program
Degrees
B.A., Teaching of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.A., Center for Writing Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Profile
Full-time in the University Writing Program since 2007, Nicole is passionate about writing as a form of empowerment and civic action. Her academic interests range from writing pedagogy across the disciplines to community-based writing projects. Most recently, Nicole has developed the First-Year Writing Tutorial, an elective supplement to Writing and Rhetoric that helps support novice academic writers as they make the transition to college-level writing. Nicole is also in her second year of a partnership with the Robinson Shakespeare Company, a theater program that seeks to empower youth through the works of William Shakespeare. Through this community-based writing project, Notre Dame students experience firsthand the impact of the arts on student achievement and social development, and, in cooperation with the Robinson Community Learning Center, they produce writing which helps sustain the organization and further its mission. Nicole lives in South Bend with her husband, Daniel Graff, and their two daughters, Ellen and Elizabeth.
Recent Scholarly Activity
Paul Prior, Gail Hawisher, Sibylle Gruber, and Nicole MacLaughlin (1997).
"Research and WAC Evaluation: An In-Progress Reflection." In Kathleen Blake
Yancey and Brian Huot (eds.), WAC and Program Assessment: Diverse Methods
of Evaluating Writing Across the Curriculum Programs (pp. 185-216). Norwood,
NJ: Ablex.
“Re-writing the Boundaries: The Ensemble Approach to Community-Based Learning,”
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. 6 April 2011.
Contact Information
300A O'Shaughnessy Hall (Office)
205 Coleman-Morse Center (Mailbox)
(574) 631-3269
nmaclaugh@nd.edu
