CARLEIGH BROWER

BIOGRAPHY

I'm a doctoral student in the Composition & Applied Linguistics Program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Andrew Bodenrader Center for Academic Writing and Composition at Manhattanville College. As Director, I oversee academic support services in the Writing Center and Academic Resource Center as well as the curriculum for courses in Writing Studies.  As a Lecturer in the First Year Program, I teach First-Year Writing and First-Year Seminar. I also teach advanced composition courses and writing pedagogy  and research courses. Previously, I worked with high school students in underserved communities in New York City as a college readiness advisor and instructor.  

My research interests include supporting the needs of first-generation college students and multilingual writers, developing strategies for student engagement and academic success during the first year, promoting academic literacy through the use of digital technologies, assessing Writing Center effectiveness, and fostering a community of peer tutor-researchers.  I have presented at the International Writing Centers Association Conference, the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, the Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference, the National Resource Center Conference on the First Year Experience, the Penn Ethnography in Education Research Forum, and the Literacy Research Association Conference.  I have co-authored articles published in The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy and The Writing Lab Newsletter.