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Tom Aspell teaches Written Professional Communication.

J. James Bono is a doctoral student specializing in Rhetoric and Cultural Studies in the English department here at the University of Pittsburgh. He studies how the theories and practices of rhetoric are reconfigured by new discourse technologies, particularly those that engender massively networked telecommunications, ubiquitous computing, and digital games. Jamie's research and teaching interests include technocultural studies; critical theory; composition in networked writing environments; and the persuasive power of serious games. Before teaching at Pitt, he instructed writing and rhetoric classes as a master's degree candidate in critical and cultural studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. As a paramedic, Jamie spent nearly a decade developing training programs in pre-hospital emergency medical services, mass casualty incident planning, and response to weapons of mass destruction for emergency services and public policy agencies in western New York State. That experience informs his interests in the rhetorical practices of disaster planning, management, and mitigation and helped to shape his current class in the Public and Professional Writing program entitled "The Rhetorics of Risk Communication."

David Clippinger is a former Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Penn State University. He left his full-time position after being tenured and promoted in 2003 in order to develop his own corporation and has further honed his rhetorical understanding of writing for a wide-range of audiences. He has written four books and is completing a fifth, and his publications include over 100 published essays, reviews, and articles. In the past he was the Director of Technical Writing for Atlantic States Legal Foundation, an environmental law firm in Syracuse, New York, was a technical writer for the Phillips Magnavox Corporation, and he spearheaded the development of professional writing classes at Penn State. Since 2003 he has taught part-time at the University of Pittsburgh.

Deborah Edwards thinks of teaching as her third career, one that combines her favorite parts of her first two careers: law and technical writing. At Pitt, she teaches Written Professional Communication, Writing in the Legal Professions, and the Language of Science and Technology. After a successful career as a corporate lawyer in Pittsburgh, she earned a Master of Science in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and became a technical writer and Web content developer. She enjoys immersing herself in new subjects to find effective ways to communicate complex ideas to a wide range of audiences. Her professional writing experience includes software documentation, employee training materials on subjects ranging from renting bulldozers to making hamburgers, and corporate marketing and consumer education communications. She holds a Juris Doctor degree from Ohio State University and a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the College of William and Mary.

Jean A. Grace is a lecturer in the University of Pittsburgh composition program, where she has taught a range of composition courses over the past 21 years, including first-year composition, professional writing, and courses for underprepared readers and writers.  She is currently the director of the Public and Professional Writing Certificate Program and the associate director of the Writing Center. As a senior writer and researcher with Spann Communications, Jean writes for foundations with a special interest in public policy. Jean has taught at the Tepper School of Business and the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University and in the Katz School of Business and the College of Business Administration at Pitt. In the PPW program, Jean teaches Written Professional Communication, Writing for the Public, Advanced Research and Documentary Writing, and Integrating Writing and Design. Jean holds a doctorate in English and a Certificate in Composition, Pedagogy, and Literacy from the University of Pittsburgh.

Marylou Gramm came to Pitt in 2002 from Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City, where she served as the director of the Writing Center and lecturer in English Composition for five years. A native New Yorker, Marylou earned her bachelor's degree in English at Barnard and doctorate in Comparative Literature at New York University, but also studied for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. Teaching writing is her great love and she believes that most creative expression grows out of conversation and written exchange. Her dissertation documents the collaborative roots of writing in Eighteenth Century England and France, where groups of novice and more established writers met to swap and develop ideas and manuscripts-in-progress, and several authored works together. Creating a community of writers who nurture and challenge each other's drafts is one of her primary goals. Marylou teaches Written Professional Communication from time to time.

Carla Howell Greenfield has balanced a career spanning more than 15 years as a part-time municipal finance and corporate lawyer with active engagement as a volunteer in several community organizations. Her work in both the legal and nonprofit sectors has involved extensive writing and editing of many types of communications. She graduated from Wake Forest University with a degree in French and earned her J.D. from Pitt Law School, where she was Managing Editor of the Law Review. At Pitt Carla teaches Written Professional Communication.

Nancy Koerbel teaches Written Professional Communication, Writing for the Legal Professions, and Advanced Topics in PPW.

Katy Rank Lev holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh's Creative Nonfiction Writing program with certificates in Women's Studies and Composition. In addition to teaching in the English department at Pitt, she is a freelance writer passionate about the planet, its bounty, and enjoying its beauty--which, for her, usually involves a rugby game and a sandwich afterward. Her writing experience ranges from magazine articles to academic papers to white papers for corporate clients. These various forms of professional writing have led her from the press box of the Rugby World Cup to the irrigation canals in Phoenix to the kitchens of an organic pizzeria and her work has appeared in US Airways Magazine, Ode magazine, and Bicycling magazine, among other publications. She is eager to share her experiences with students and encourage a definition of writing to include many forms of new media and communication.

Jonathan Loucks was born and raised in Southern California. He has studied at the University of California, Berkeley (B.A. 20th Century Literature) and the University of Pittsburgh (MFA Poetry). His rock criticism has appeared in Kitchen Sink and Fabula magazines, and his poems have appeared in The New Yinzer and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Jonathan spent several years living in San Francisco, where he worked as an advertising copywriter in a building with no windows. He now calls Pittsburgh home.

Beth Marcello has taught Public Relations Writing and Creative Corporate Communications in addition to Writing for the Public in the Public and Professional Writing Program. She is also director of Women's Business Development at PNC, where she manages a team that helps the bank’s sales force develop business relationships with women entrepreneurs and executives across its 13-state market. Prior to joining National City, a PNC predecessor bank, in 2006, Beth owned PRwriting, Inc. for more than 15 years, a consulting firm that helped companies communicate to customers, employees, the media and other stakeholders. Her clients included a wide range of large and small businesses and nonprofit organizations, such as Federated Investors, Wabtec, National City, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and Saint Vincent College. Beth, who earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and communications from Point Park University, has also held positions in community development and government relations. A South Side resident, she is the author of Passport to Pittsburgh, a commemorative book that celebrated the 1993 opening of the new Pittsburgh International Airport, and a contributor to Pittsburgh: Fulfilling Its Destiny.

Tom McWhorter teaches Writing for the Public, Writing in the Legal Professions, and Written Professional Communication. He has a JD from the University of Utah and practiced in a nonprofit law firm for more than a decade, helping low-income clients with cases involving public benefits, disability, landlord-tenant, and family law. During this period, an activity he found just as rewarding as helping the economically disadvantaged with their legal problems was mentoring, through research and writing assignments, the many undergraduate and law student interns he supervised. Eventually, Tom decided to emphasize another aspect of his own writing—fiction. He earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Utah in 2006. (His short story “Pigeon Eggs,” can be found in the journal Short Story, Spring 2007. Another story, “A Tragedy with Pigs,” which originally appeared in the Fall 2006 Madison Review, was later anthologized in New Stories from the Southwest.)

Pam O'Brien holds a visiting lectureship at Pitt and is the associate director of the Public and Professional Writing Program. She also coordinates the internship program for PPW. She has worked in a variety of career fields including advertising, public relations, government planning and administration, grantwriting, and teaching. She holds undergraduate degrees from Allegheny College and the University of Madrid and did her graduate work at Gannon University. Her avocations are reading and writing poetry. Pam's first chapbook, Kaleidoscopes, was published in 1999, and Paper Dancing was released by Foothills Publishing in 2004. Her third chapbook, Acceptable Losses, will be released by Pudding House Press in 2009. In 2007, Pam was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she received the Student Choice for Faculty Excellence Award in 2008 from CGS. A member of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop, Pam has also taught courses to older Americans interested in writing memoirs and has developed a course in that area. Here at Pitt, Pam focuses on composition courses such as Written Professional Communication, Persuasive Writing in Advertising and Fundraising, Writing for the Public, and Grant and Proposal Writing. She is also an always-in-demand tutor at the Writing Center.

Fiore Pugliano holds a doctorate in literature from Pitt's English Department. He advises graduate students in the department as well as undergraduate majors in English. In addition, he assists in the scheduling of classes and teaches Written Professional Communication.

Dahliani Reynolds holds undergraduate degrees from Cabrillo Community College and the University of California at Berkeley, and earned a Master’s Degree in English (with dual concentrations in Composition and Creative Writing) from Western Washington University. Before moving to Pittsburgh in 2007, she taught English 101 for two years at Western Washington University, and served as the Fiction Editor for The Bellingham Review. At Pitt, she teaches Seminar in Composition and Written Professional Communication, and she is currently serving as the Composition Program Assistant.

Lisa Schwartz has taught teaching writing and literature courses at Pitt, Rutgers, and Temple University.

Heather Stewart draws on her marketing and employee communications experience with various industries when she teaches at Pitt. Currently, she teaches Language of Business and Industry, Persuasive Writing in Advertising and Fundraising, and Written Professional Communication. She is active in the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), serving on both the regional and local chapter boards. She holds a graduate certificate in Financial Aspects of Human Resources Management from La Roche College and a Master of Arts in speech pathology from the University of Pittsburgh.