Alison Ersheid

Alison Ersheid

Assistant Professor
Main Hall 104
AErsheid@wcupa.edu

Education

  • M.F.A. Fiction Writing, George Mason University
  • Ph.D. Literacy, St. John’s University

Interests

  • Retention and persistence in underprepared writers
  • First year writing
  • Professional and Technical Writing
  • Mentoring Programs
  • Short fiction

Publications

Ersheid, A., "SUPPORTING UNDERPREPARED WRITERS IN AN ACADEMIC SUCCESS PROGRAM" (2024). Theses and Dissertations. 786. https://scholar.stjohns.edu/theses_dissertations/786

Ersheid, A., Konigsberg, L., McVeigh, M., Pearson, N., & Kahn, S. (2024). Claiming and Being Claimed by Writing Studies: Negotiating Identities for Creative Writers Teaching Composition. In L. C. Lewis (Ed.), Pivotal Strategies: Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline (pp. 105–130). University Press of Colorado. http://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.16148253.11

Blake, M.F., Ersheid, A., Sancak-Marusa, I., & Woodlief, K. (2022). The Effects of a Writing Peer Mentor Program on Developmental Writing Students. The Chronical of Mentoring and Coaching, 6(15), 643-648.

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