In my years at UMW, I spent a year writing for the school newspaper, took four creative writing classes that entailed workshop feedback and independent writing exercises, and wrote in a variety of styles including research, literary analysis, rhetorical analysis, blogging, and reflective writing.
I also learned through the experience of editing fellow students’ writing collaboratively at the UMW Writing Center. This has given me experience analyzing the structures and conventions of writing across disciplines.
A directory containing some of my writing work follows.
Student Journalism
- Erin Andrewlevich Recognized By CAC For Women’s Track (Spring 2019)
- Campus Community Reacts To Paris Fire (Spring 2019)
- Freshman Students To Move From Virginia To Willard (Fall 2019)
- Students Crave Diversification of LGBT Literature (Fall 2019)
- Claudia Keller Named CAC Swimmer of the Week (Fall 2019)
- Student Political Groups Organize Voter Turnout Events For November 6 Election (Fall 2019)
- Freshmen Need More Advisor Insight (Fall 2019)
Educational Writing
- Analyzing Poetry. Handout created for UMW Writing Center
- Getting Started With Creative Writing Assignments. PowerPoint created for a UMW Writing Center presentation, spring 2022.
- Peer Revision Workshop. PowerPoint created for a UMW Writing Center classroom visit.
Academic Writing
- Temporal Spaces in The Return of the Soldier. A short analysis of time and space as it functions in Rebecca West’s Return of the Soldier, written as a blog post for Dr. Mara Scanlon’s Women and Modernism class.
- Coming-of-Age Mythology in My Ántonia. Similar short analysis of how storytelling, mythology, and archetypal masculinity function in Willa Cather’s My Ántonia.
- Changes in Web Culture and Independent Online Art: A Case Study in Webcomics. 30-hour research project completed for Dr. Zach Whalen’s Applied Digital Studies class in Fall of 2019.
- Little Women, Little Houses: Authorship and Authority in Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder. 40-page paper completed through the UMW Honors Program as part of the independent study comprising my senior capstone, advised by Dr. Mara Scanlon. Received departmental honors.
Non-Academic and Creative Writing
- The Starless Night. Interactive short story completed for Dr. Brenta Blevins’ Introduction to Digital Studies class.
- Where Light Doesn’t Die. Hypertext memoir essay completed for Dr. Zach Whalen’s Electronic Literature class.
- Review of The Burying Party. Film review for Dr. Mara Scanlon’s Literature of the Great War class.