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As of September 2022, the Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts is pleased to welcome Dr. Tara Pauliny as Associate Director. Dr. Pauliny earned her PhD in rhetoric and composition/English from the Ohio State University in 2002 and has served as a faculty member and writing program administrator at several academic institutions. She has taught courses in writing, rhetoric, gender studies, and liberal studies and has been a Writing Center Director, Director of Writing Programs, Writing Across the Curriculum Director, and Academic Director of Liberal Studies.

In the Writing program, Dr. Pauliny teaches undergraduate academic writing and is responsible for teacher training. Her research interests include rhetorics of the body, queer writing studies, and contemplative pedagogy. In 2016 she published Neoliberal Rhetorics and Body Politics: Plastinate Exhibits as Infiltration with Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield; her scholarship has also appeared in a variety of academic journals and edited collections. Dr. Pauliny believes deeply in collaboration, critical contemplation, and learning with and from her students.