WRITING FOR COLLEGE

Program Faculty

Jody Cohen, Director and Instructor (M.A. in Creative Writing, Brown University; Ph.D. in Education, University of Pennsylvania). A Senior Lecturer in the Education and College Seminar Programs at Bryn Mawr College, Jody Cohen is the author of the AAUW’s study, Girls in the Middle, and her articles/chapters have been published in scholarly journals and books on urban education and school reform. Her current research focuses on adolescent identity, diversity and schooling. She has directed the Writing for College program since 2002.

Trecia Pottinger (A.B., Growth and Structure of Cities and German, Bryn Mawr College) is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of Minnesota and has been an instructor in Bryn Mawr’s College Seminar Program.

J.C. Todd (M.F.A., Warren Wilson College), poet, translator, literary editor and Visiting Lecturer in Bryn Mawr's Creative Writing Program, has published three collections of poetry, What Space This Body (2008), Nightshade (1995), and Entering Pisces (1985). Her awards include two Leeway Foundation Awards, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for poetry, a New Jersey Governor's Award for Arts in Education, and a Distinguished Teaching-Artist Award. She is an associate editor of the poetry Web magazine, The Drunken Boat. She has taught in the Writing for College program since the mid-1990s.

Administrators

Ann Brown, who has coordinated Writing for College since 2003, is also the Administrator of the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program.

Alison Cook-Sather, Associate Professor of Education in the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program and Coordinator of Bryn Mawr's Teaching and Learning Initiative, serves as a consultant for the Writing for College and Science for College programs.