We are the Mary G. Walsh Writing Center Team!
Coordinator of Salem State University’s Mary G. Walsh Writing Center since August 2019, Al DeCiccio has worked in higher education since 1978. He was President of the National Writing Centers Association (NWCA), which is now the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA), and co-editor, with Joan Mullin, of The Writing Center Journal. He received the Muriel Harris Outstanding Service Award. He has written about writing centers, peer tutoring, pedagogy, leadership, and spirituality.
Amy Jo Minett has a Ph.D. in Composition and TESOL and an MFA from the University of Virginia. Her co-authored book Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication, and English Language Teaching was published in 2022. Dr. Minett has taught language and writing globally, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Hungary, Romania, and China, as well as in the US. She coordinates First Year and Multilingual Writing at Salem State.
Tanya Rodrigue has a Ph.D. in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric from Syracuse University. She is a Professor of English and Coordinator of the Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC) program. Dr. Rodrigue teaches courses in writing and rhetoric including audio storytelling, podcasting and audio production, digital writing, and advanced writing. She writes primarily about writing pedagogy, sonic rhetoric, genre theory, and digital rhetoric. Her work has been published in numerous scholarly journals and edited collections. She also co-wrote Soundwriting: A Guide to Making Audio Projects with Dr. Kyle D. Stedman.
Bill Coyle is the Assistant Coordinator of the Mary G. Walsh Writing Center, where he has worked for more than thirty years. He is also a poet and translator. His poetry collection, The God of This World to His Prophet, published in 2006, won the New Criterion Poetry Prize. In 2010 he received a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the resulting collection of his translations of the Swedish poet Håkan Sandell, Dog Star Notations: Selected Poems 1999-2016, was published in 2016 by Carcanet Press. In 2023 he received his PhD in Editorial Studies from Boston University, where he wrote a dissertation on the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer.