Bridget K. Fullerton
Lecturer and Director of Student Writing
About
Ph.D., English, Concentration in Rhetoric & Composition, University of Rhode Island
M.A., English & Technical Communication, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
B.A., English & Secondary Education, Albright College, Reading, PA
Bridget Fullerton聽is a writing educator, writing program administrator, and writing center director who seeks to center and uplift all student voices in the academy. Helping others tell their most honest and courageous stories is what she loves to do.聽Bridget, who goes by 鈥淒r. B鈥� with her students and tutors, has over 30 years of experience working in public and private secondary and post-secondary classrooms across the country and has been at 乐播传媒 since the fall of 2017.
Bridget holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Secondary Education, a Master of Arts in English and Technical Communication, and a Doctorate in English, with a specialization in Rhetoric and Composition, or Writing Studies, and a certificate in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her dissertation, entitled 鈥�,鈥� used a qualitative approach to listen for the messy truths and emergent learning insights students offered about their e-portfolio experiences and called for writing instructors and program and university administrators to attend closely to the evolutions and performances of students鈥� writerly selves throughout any assessment experience.
She and three of her graduate student colleagues were recipients of the Council of Writing Program Administrators鈥� (CWPA) Award for Graduate Writing in WPA Studies for a co-written article that later appeared in The聽WPA Journal聽as 鈥溾�� and she recently co-wrote a book chapter with three of her WPA colleagues, 鈥淭his Will Never Be 20/20: What Reflection Teaches Us About Assessment,鈥� which will appear in the edited collection聽Writing Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges聽(forthcoming, Parlor Press 2024). She is also working with her father,聽, a Vietnam Veteran and historian, on completing his combat memoir.
Prior to joining 乐播传媒, Bridget taught English in public middle and high schools in New Jersey, North Carolina, and East Palo Alto, California, and she tutored and taught writing at community colleges in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and San Jose, California and at the University of Rhode Island. She also spent some time working in New York City at a children鈥檚 book publisher and then as a curriculum and teaching specialist for a non-profit educational technology firm that designed workplace simulations for students in Title 1 schools around the country.
Bridget鈥檚 work in Writing Program and Writing Center Administration is centered on anti-oppression and linguistic justice, on thoughtful and meaningful assessment, and on research, collaboration and leadership development. At 乐播传媒, Dr. B teaches a First-Year Seminar (FYS) entitled Writing Ourselves, Writing With Others; EXDS 201:聽Writing Process, Tutoring Practice聽(offered every Winter semester); and EDUC s19:聽Teaching and Tutoring Writing (With) Power聽(offered every Short Term).
If you can鈥檛 find Dr. B in her office or in a classroom, you鈥檒l probably find her working with students or talking with tutors in the Student Writing & Language Center on the Ground Floor of Ladd Library. Otherwise, she鈥檚 enjoying a break in the local community: hiking with her dog, making music with her husband and friends, or playing soccer or a good board game with her son.