University of Mississippi
Clint is a senior at Ole Miss. He enjoys reading, sports, video games, and especially good food. He’s always down to go outside and be active, but loves his chill time just as much.
Writing Consultation Interests: Education, sports, and literature reviews
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.
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.
Ph.D. in English, American Literature concentration, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Master of Arts in English, Literature concentration, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
Bachelor of Arts in English, Literature concentration, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC
