UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Director of the Tupelo
- Director, Tupelo
Dr. Jackson is the Director of the Tupelo Writing Center and an Instructor. Her research focuses on scholarly productivity, writing groups, and the perceptions and impacts of "publish or perish." She also is interested in autoethnography and other forms of qualitative research. Since 2018, she has taught first-year writing composition courses in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric and graduate higher education courses as a faculty affiliate for the Department of Higher Education. Dr. Jackson is a 2019-21 faculty fellow with the UM Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies fellowship program. In May 2019 she was chosen as a 2019-20 participant of the Op-Ed Project, a national initiative aimed at increasing the public impact of the nation's top underrepresented thinkers, broadening gender equity, and shifting the dynamic of public discourse. Since 2017, she has been a contributing writer for Inside Higher Ed. Dr. Jackson also has presented research at the annual meetings of the Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, the American Educational Research Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and at the UM Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Dr. Jackson always enjoys coaxing productive writing from her students and other faculty. She loves watching street food videos and bingeing on international crime and mystery dramas.
Claire Mischker is the director of The Graduate Writing Center as well as a lecturer of Composition. She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English from Winthrop University in South Carolina and completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Mississippi with a concentration in Modern American Literature. Her literary research focuses on gender theory in the novels of William Faulkner, and she has participated in various regional, national, and international conferences on Writing Center theory. She has worked in Writing Centers at both Winthrop and UM and has been working extensively with graduate writers since 2013.
Job Titles:
- Director, DeSoto / DeSoto Center
Dr. Jeanine Rauch received her doctorate in Higher Education in May 2020 from the University of Mississippi. She has been working with writing centers for 15 years. She received her undergraduate degree in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing Poetry from Texas State University and her masters in English Secondary Education from Delta State University. Using her creative writing skills, she helps students find joy and ultimately confidence in their writing. She is a member the of the Mississippi Writing Project, National Writing Project, International Writing Center Association, and Southeastern Writing Center Association. She currently serves as chair for the Mississippi Writing Center Association. She has also presented at these conferences with fellow colleagues. Her interests are cooking, reading, painting, writing, visiting new places, and going out with friends.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Interim Director / Oxford
Ellen is the Interim Director of the Writing Center along with a few other duties on campus. She also is the Director of Pre-College Programs and the University of Mississippi Writing Project. She has taught everything writing from middle school, high school, undergrad, and graduate classes for 31 years. Ellen earned an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from The University of Mississippi. She is Nationally Board Certified in Adolescent/ Young Adult Language Arts and a 2003 winner of the Milken National Educator Award. She was named to The University of Mississippi's School of Education Alumni Hall of Fame in 2018.
She is also working on a second doctorate at Memphis, so she's back to being a student, again. Weird things happen during a pandemic and over age 50. She's a Dallas Cowboys fan who is married to a Packers fan. She's all about the cats, the Lego, and the coffee.