One of this month's Featured Educators is Grace Pregent, Associate Director, The MSU Writing Center. Grace is completing a Ph.D. in English from Loyola University Chicago. According to the College of Arts and Letters (which houses The Writing Center), Grace's dissertation, Interpreting Minorness, investigates minor character systems and peripheral voices across narratives. She has a background in leading study abroad programs and has taught composition, literature, and education courses in the United States and Europe. She holds an M.S. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Dayton and an M.A. in English from the University of Dallas. Her recent work has been published in Evenlyn Waugh Studies and The Hardy Society Review.
Grace is not only making an impact in her field but in the MSU community as well! Here's what a fellow Spartan had to say about Grace: "Despite being new to MSU, Grace has already made a big difference at MSU. One of my advisees, a first-semester graduate student, worked under her supervision. Not only did he enjoy his work, but he got so much more than just a job and a paycheck: he was welcomed into a positive, supportive, and encouraging community led by Grace and was mentored on much more than just how to do his job. Grace nudged him to present his work at a conference and gave him the confidence that he could actually do it. The student was experiencing a challenging phase of his life this semester, which could have easily sent him down into negativity land. But as he explained to me, it was Grace's ubiquitous and endless positivity, that became a bright light in his daily life at MSU, contributing to him successfully and confidently completing a difficult first semester."
