Gail Hemmeter

Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Literatures in English and Katherine E. McBride Professor
Gail Hemmeter headshot

Contact

Phone 610-526-5301
Location English House 213

Department/Subdepartment

Education

Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University.

Areas of Focus

Writing pedagogy; Twentieth-century American drama

Biography

Gail Hemmeter teaches courses on writing and writing pedagogy, as well as the English Department Senior Thesis preparatory course and a Bryn Mawr College Seminar on Performance. As Director of Writing Support for the College, she co-directs the College Seminar Program and directs the Writing Center.

Her research interest include small college writing programs, teaching writing across the curriculum, and modern American drama. Current projects include the development of a course on 20th-century drama and the editing of a collection of studies of small college writing programs.

Courses Taught:
125 - Writing Workshop
126 - Writing Workshop for Non-Native Speakers of English
220 - Writing in Theory/Writing in Practice
230- Topics in American Drama