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Melissa Nicolas, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English, WAC Coordinator, and Writing Center Director. She earned her doctorate in English (rhetoric/composition) from The Ohio State University in 2002. Her research interests include: writing center and WAC studies, feminist theory, qualitative research methodologies, and pedagogy.

Dr. Nicolas has edited two collections, (E)Merging Identities: Graduate Students in the Writing Center (Fountainhead Press, 2007) and, with Beverly Moss and Nels Highberg, By Any Other Name: Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom (Erlbaum, 2004). She has chapters in several edited collections, and her work has appeared in Reflections, Journal of College Writing, the WPA Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed (among others).

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