Paula Fleischmann Gillespie, Director of the Ott Memorial Writing Center and Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University, currently vice president of the International Writing Centers Association and incoming president as of November, will speak on "Centered Research: Extending the Conversation" Thursday, October 25, at 11:30 in HBC 239. This talk, based on her new book "Writing Center Research: Extending the Conversation," will be open to the SU community: all are welcome. At 1:00, Professor Gillespie will conduct an informal Q&A session in the Writing Center (HBC 102) for WRT 331 students and any interested visitors.

Paula Gillespie, who is co-author of The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring, a leading text in the field, has also published numerous articles in journals and anthologies, including "Negotiating the Space of Email: Constructing Codes, Constructing Verbal Space, Constructing Selves" in Feminist Landcapes: Essays on Gender and Technology in the Writing Classroom, "Writing to Learn Literature" in Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum, and "Classroom Voices" in Voices on Voice. She is also a James Joyce scholar, most recently co-authoring Recent Criticisms of James Joyce's Ulysses: An Analytical Review. At Marquette University she teaches Developmental English, first-year composition, and advanced composition, as well as literature courses and Processes of Composing, a peer-tutoring course. She is widely regarded as one of the leading figures in the writing center field.