Administration
Dr. Grace Pregent,
Director
I’m Grace Pregent (she/her/hers), Director of the Writing Center at Michigan State University, affiliate faculty in Global Studies, and graduate faculty in Rhetoric, Writing, and Cultures. Since joining MSU, I’ve taught WRA 395: Writing Center Theory and Practice, WRA 495: Community Literacies and Engagement Across Borders, WRA 495: Organizational Storytelling, and WRA 899: Writing Center Administration (co-taught). I’m also the Co-Director of the Community Writing Center and the education abroad Program Director for Community Literacies in Canada.
I received my PhD in English (2020) from Loyola University Chicago, and I have an MS in Higher Education Administration from the University of Dayton (2014) and an MA in English from the University of Dallas (2010). I’m interested broadly in rhetorical narrative theory and higher education and particularly in intersections between storytelling, partnerships, and organizational management. Currently I am the Vice President for the East Central Writing Centers Association and a mentoring editor with the ECWCA Journal. Some of my recent articles have been published in The Writing Lab Newsletter, Victorians, and College Composition and Communication (2024) and book chapters in the edited collections Public Feminisms and Queer Praxis in the Writing Center: Expanding Intersectional Paradigms (2024). This year my book, In Praise of the Minor Character: The Importance of Peripheral Figures in Victorian Literature, was published by McFarland Press.
Before joining the Spartan community, I worked in writing center administration at Loyola University and in international programming. When not teaching, traveling, or being in the Writing Center, I’m usually spending time with my family, enjoying the beautiful state of Michigan, and running with friends.
You’re welcome to connect with me at pregentg@msu.edu.
Position Unfilled,
Associate Director of Curriculum
Biography forthcoming
Position Unfilled,
Associate Director of Outreach
Biography forthcoming
Nicole Koyuki Golden,
Graduate Assistant Director
Biography forthcoming
Kimberly Groves,
Graduate Assistant Director
I’m Kimberly (she/her), one of the Graduate Assistant Directors and a third-year PhD student in Writing, Rhetoric and Cultures. I’m pursuing a concentration in Black Linguistic Justice and a graduate specialization in Women and Gender Studies. I’ve been with the Writing Center @ MSU since 2022 in various capacities including Graduate Writing Coordinator and Operations Scheduling Coordinator.
I was born in Lansing and lived here for 8 years before moving to the suburbs of Chicago where I grew up. My family returned to the Greater Lansing area just before I started at Michigan State, and it’s been a very happy return to our Michigan roots! Prior to MSU, I attended a local community college in IL before transferring to the University of Kentucky for my BA in English. I returned to the community college to study American Sign Language before heading to Clemson University for my MA in Writing, Rhetoric, and Media. It was there I had my first experience as a tutor in a Writing Center!
I’ve taught a variety of writing courses in community college and university contexts, where I work to enact tenets of equity, collaboration, and access by way of de-centering myself, co-constructing the course values with students, and challenging normative assumptions of writing. You can find me listening to Taylor Swift, binge watching TV, or spending time with my partner, our pets, and friends when I’m not teaching or working in the Writing Center. I invite you to connect with me via email at groveski@msu.edu.