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BRIDGET FULLERTON <\/strong>(she\/hers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ph.D. in English\/Rhetoric & Composition <\/strong>(University of Rhode Island)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director of Student Writing  <\/strong>|  Lecturer in the Humanities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program: <\/strong>Student Writing, Language, and Speaking Support<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coram Library, Room 221<\/p>\n\n\n\n

bfullert@bates.edu<\/p>\n\n\n\n

207-786-6133<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bridget Fullerton<\/strong> 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. Bridget, who goes by “Dr. B” 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 Bates since the fall of 2017. Her areas of research and professional interest are radical writing center praxis, linguistic justice, equity-minded writing pedagogy, labor-based grading, writing technologies, writing assessment and curriculum design. Poetry, personal narrative, nonfiction essays, memoir, and authoethnography are her genres of choice; emails and end-of-year reports are her genres of necessity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. The publications of which she is most proud are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n