Our Staff

Dana Lynn Driscoll is a professor of English and the founding director of the Center for Scholarly Communication at IUP. She has offered numerous keynotes, consultations, and workshops on writing centers and supporting advanced writers globally, including in Oman, Bangladesh, and the Czech Republic. She has also published over 50 articles on learning theory, writing development, writing centers, and writing expertise. While the director of the Jones White Writing Center, she developed innovative strategies for STEM writers, business and technical communicators, multilingual writers, and dissertation writing support.

She teaches writing for publication, research methods, and writing center administration in the doctoral program in Composition and Applied Linguistics at IUP. She recently served as a co-editor of the open-source textbook series Writing Spaces (reaching millions of students each year) and, while finishing her PhD at Purdue, also ran the world-famous Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), one of the largest and oldest writing-related websites in the world.

Madeleine Rosa is the founding associate director of Scholarly Communication. She is interested in mindfulness and its potential impacts on neurodiverse, anxious, and graduate writers. Madeleine has taught composition and English language learners at Seton Hill University for four years.

Specialization Areas

• Research writing
• Writing for publication
• Social science

Tyler Nuñez is the founding assistant director at the Center for Scholarly Communication and a current PhD candidate in the Composition and Applied Linguistics program at IUP. Tyler is also an English adjunct instructor at PennWest University, Clarion, and a local resident of Indiana. He has formerly instructed at Seton Hill University and Mount Aloysius College.

Specialization Areas

• Composition Teaching
• Racio/Socio-linguistics
• Translanguaging and Translingualism
• Creative/Poetry Writing

Amiranda Adams (they/them) is a PhD candidate in the Composition and Applied Linguistics program. Their academic interests are identity, creative writing, and the digital humanities. Outside of academics, Amiranda enjoys cuddling with their two cats, playing video games, crocheting, and reading.

Specialization Areas

• APA 7 Formatting

• Areas/genres: Composition, Applied Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Professional Writing

• Flow/Transitions

• General Editing 

• Thesis and Dissertation Formatting 

• Plagiarism/iThenticate/citation work

Madelyn Carroll (she/her) is a student in the Composition and Applied Linguistics program, writing her dissertation. She teaches first-year writing and tutors graduate writers at varying stages of thesis/dissertation writing; she also coordinates the graduate writing groups. Madelyn has worked extensively on editing and formatting theses and dissertations.

Specialization Areas

• Thesis/dissertation formatting
• APA
• Creative writing

Andy Decker, MFA, is a doctoral student in the Composition and Applied Linguistics PhD program. He just returned to Pittsburgh, where he was a senior lecturer in the intensive English program at Chatham University, from Japan, where he was a full-time lecturer in the faculty of Foreign Language Studies at Kansai University. His research interests include creative writing for academic purposes, specifically creative nonfiction, and writing center and writing program administration.

Specialization Areas

• Multilingual learners
• Narrative writing

As a full-time professional editor in the dissertation stage of her PhD in Composition and Applied Linguistics, Jaime (she/her/hers) is a huge fan of helping others not only advance their writing technique but to use their writing to achieve their goals. Jaime’s focus areas include medical/professional writing and scholarship/fellowship/graduate school applications. Jaime’s research interests include writing center theory, best practices for asynchronous tutoring, and writer identity.

Specialization Areas

• Medical/Professional Writing (e.g., grants, publications, etc.)
• Medical/Graduate School Applications (including résumés, etc.)
• Scholarship/Fellowship Applications
• Depts/Fields:
  • Multilingual Writers/Education (ESL/7-12 English certified)
  • Student Affairs

Jill Custodi is a PhD student in the Composition and Applied Linguistics program. Her research interests are writing center theory and administration, neurodiversity and writing, and disability studies. She has taught college composition and has tutored writing for eight years.

Specialization areas:

• APA 7th edition
• Line editing
• Writing in the humanities & social sciences
• Writing centers

Haleigh S. Hayes is a PhD candidate through IUP’s Literature and Criticism program, specializing in monster movies, ancient mythologies, horror films, and comic books. She is also a published poet, with an article on cinematic Superman in the St. John’s Humanities Review. In her spare time, she writes horror novels and knits in cemeteries.

Specialization Areas

• Professional development and the cultivation of the professional self in higher education
• Humanities: history, creative writing, academic writing, sociology
• Abstracts, proposals, a lot of conference experience
• Teaching/public speaking