{"id":195,"date":"2023-01-20T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/writingcenter\/?page_id=195"},"modified":"2026-09-21T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:40:37","slug":"meet-our-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/writingcenter\/meet-our-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Our Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Amelia \u201cAmy\u201d Cruz (she\/they) is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at USC Dornsife. She earned her B.A. in English Literature and Women\u2019s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Amy\u2019s work sits at the crossroads of literary, disability, neurodivergence, and queer studies. Her dissertation interrogates the \u201cleaky\u201d boundaries of the human\/inhuman binary, and the subversive potential of the autistic way of being. Amy served as an Assistant Lecturer in the Writing Program, so she has lots of experience with the ins and outs of Writing 150. Feel free to ask for tips on how to thrive in college or graduate school while neurodivergent (i.e., a person with one or more learning and\/or cognitive disabilities, such as autism, ADHD, OCD, dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc.)! Amy\u2019s favorite part of teaching is working with students to find solutions that work with their brain, rather than against it. In her free time, Amy enjoys seeing Ghibli movies at the New Beverly Cinema, rewatching Criminal Minds for the fourteenth time, and cross stitching with a fuzzy orange cat on her lap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Briana Maytee Garc\u00eda (she\/her) is a Ph.D. student in the English department. She received both her Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s degrees in English from Stanford University. Within her broad focus of Latinx Literature, Briana is interested in concepts of forgiveness and verg\u00fcenza in addition to representations of hair texture and skin tone. Aside from literature, she is also passionate about college access for first-gen\/ low-income students of color like herself. Briana enjoys watching Disney movies and crafting for fun. Her experience tutoring at the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking at Stanford has underscored Briana\u2019s passion for building writers\u2019 confidence and making the writing process feel more accessible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Camila Reyes (she\/her) is a PhD candidate in the English department and a Wallis Annenberg Endowed Fellow at USC. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, where she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow and won the English Department’s Undergraduate Student Essay Contest Award in 2018. She also previously worked at UC Riverside\u2019s Writing Center. Her research interests lie at the intersections of girlhood studies, queer theory, and early modern English literature. Other research interests include law and literature, and performance studies. Camila served as an instructor for Writing 150 and her main areas of writing experience are in the humanities and social sciences. She also has experience working with first-generation students, English as a second language students, and nontraditional students. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, going to concerts, and birdwatching.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Carolina Mu\u00f1oz (she\/her) is a second-year Ph.D. student studying English Literature at USC Dornsife. She earned her BA in English and minor in Education at the University of California, Riverside. Carolina has served as the Assistant Editor-in-Chief for the UC Riverside Undergraduate Research Journal, where she aided in publishing student research articles from various disciplines. Additionally, she has tutored community college students and taught undergraduate students, helping scholars’s develop reading and writing skills and providing mentorship on topics related to navigating higher education. Through her mentorship, she also has experience building and editing resumes. Carolina’s research lies in the field of Chicanx and Latinx studies. Her interests include hiking, cooking and baking, crocheting, and exploring taco trucks around Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Celeste Oon (she\/her) is an M.A. student and TA in Cinema and Media Studies. She previously completed her BA in Linguistics and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research revolves around internet platforms, online communities, and celebrity\/fan relations. She\u2019s particularly interested in how power and intimacy are negotiated among individuals in digital spaces. Her main areas of writing experience are in the social sciences and humanities. She also has a passion for helping students with application materials (for schools, scholarships, special programs, etc.) and has worked with many non-native speakers. In the past, she has served as a writing coach, tutor, and editor-in-chief for student publications, and as a translator for unions. Nowadays, you can find her dipping her toes into the podcasting space. Outside of her studies, she enjoys finding good restaurants around L.A., listening to loud music, and wasting time watching Reels and TikToks. In Celeste is available Monday evening and Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Colin Flynn (he\/him) is a Ph.D. student in the English department. He graduated from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA in 2012 and received an MA in English from San Francisco State University in 2019. At USC, he has taught Writing-150 and served as a teaching assistant in the English department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Devony Hof (she\/her) is a first-year Master\u2019s student in the Screenwriting division at USC\u2019s School of Film and Television. She earned her BA in English Literature and Theatre from Northwestern University, where she received the Edward Shuman Award for her thesis on W. B. Yeats\u2019s and Eavan Boland\u2019s doll poems. Her poetry has appeared in Fahmidan<\/em>, Right Hand Pointing <\/em>and RockPaperPoem<\/em>, among others. She can assist with creative writing, literary analysis and application materials. Though she grew up in the Bay Area, she has spent two years in Chicago, acting, writing and complaining about the weather. Outside of work, she enjoys embroidery and dissecting the ending of Game of Thrones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Jaden Morales (they\/them) is a second-year Ph.D. student and Teaching Assistant in the Department of American Studies & Ethnicity. Prior to USC, Jaden received their B.A. in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration from Yale University. Their graduate research considers the social and political intimacies that link the geographies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean to the Pacific vis-\u00e1-vis transnational circuits of bodies, capital, commodities, and knowledges to examine the formation of U.S. empire and global colonial-capitalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jaden\u2019s area of writing experience spans the humanities\u2014history, ethnic studies, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies\u2014as well as application materials such as r\u00e9sum\u00e9s, cover letters, and personal statements. Before graduate school, Jaden worked for two years as a litigation paralegal for an employment and labor law firm in Washington D.C; thus, they\u2019re also apt to assist with legal and business writing. Outside the classroom, Jaden enjoys curating playlists, exploring L.A.\u2019s food scene, and teaching themselves to rollerskate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Janet Song (she\/they) is a Ph.D. student in the English department. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and Media Studies at Vassar College in 2019. Her research interests are centered around American literature, focusing on the 19th century and on Asian American literature. She can assist in academic essays, graduate school applications, and works of creative writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Josh Beckelhimer is\u00a0 PhD Candidate in the English Department. He holds an MA from the University of Cincinnati. He has worked under librarians and in a digital humanities lab, where he worked collaboratively to distill information across many fields. His work focuses on ecological cosmologies within speculative literary works by Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia Butler, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Rita Indiana. He focuses on how they use cosmology\u2013myths, folklore, and cultural traditions\u2013to reconceptualize colonial histories of the Americas, human relationships to the environment, and varying sciences and systems of ecological knowledge. He is particularly interested in writers who tap into expansive imaginative frames to go beyond basic understandings of material ecology. Josh has experience teaching Writing 150, multiple levels of Composition, writing applications of many kinds. He loves working with students one-on-one to help students produce the best version of their work as they can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Josh Olivier is a second-year Ph.D. student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California. He earned his MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan, where he also worked as an assistant editor for Michigan Quarterly Review. A native of California\u2019s Inland Empire, he often draws on the region\u2019s cultural and economic landscape in his writing. His novel-in-progress, Goodness, explores themes of class, masculinity, memory, and survival, following a young writer as he navigates poverty, artistic ambition, and the fractures of family and friendship. The work confronts underrepresented narratives of male vulnerability and abuse, while also capturing the textures of Southern California life: its driving culture and freeways, the constant negotiation between ambition and precarity. When he isn\u2019t writing fiction, he works on twee anthems and heartbreak songs for his band, No Better. He also loves running, reading, and Lakers basketball. At the Writing Center, Josh enjoys working with students at every stage of the writing process. He especially values the chance to talk through structure, clarity, and voice, and to help writers discover the questions and patterns driving their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Keasha Worthen is an Assistant Professor in the Writing Program. She received her Master\u2019s Degree in American Studies from the University of Florida and her PhD in Cultural Studies and Diversity Rhetorics, also from the University of Florida. As a professor, her course experiences include Writing courses, Strategic Communications, Writing in Law, Technical Writing, and Writing for Engineers. She also has taught various 1st\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>year and upper-level Literature courses. At the University of Florida, Keasha also worked as a Strategy Tutor for the University Athletic Association, focusing on working with students with various learning\/cognitive disabilities. Here at USC, Keasha works as a mentor, working with 1st\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>generation college students and multi-language learners, encouraging students to carve out a space for themselves in any space that they occupy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Mahnoor Ali (she\/her) is a Ph.D. student studying Comparative Media and Culture at USC Dornsife. Her work operates on the intersection of literary and museum studies and explores themes of spatiality, communal memory, and cultural identity. She is interested in how these themes shape visual and literary narratives of displacement and diaspora. Mahnoor completed her B.A. in Comparative Literature at Harvard with a secondary field in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. She also has an MPhil in English Criticism and Culture from the University of Cambridge. She has done ethnographic research in France and literary research in Turkey and can advise on fellowship and internship application materials (personal statements, cover letters, etc.) in addition to essays across disciplines. She also enjoys writing fiction and would be happy to discuss your creative projects! Outside of the classroom, Mahnoor has made significant progress in her quests to find the best pain au chocolat on the West Coast and to prove that Los Angeles is, contrary to popular opinion, a walkable city. \u00a0Mahnoor is available Wednesday afternoons and Thursday mornings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Matthew Aaron Hernandez (He\/Him) is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department at USC Dornsife. He earned his B.A. in English Literature with a Certificate in Creative and Professional Writing from CSU Dominguez Hills. During his Undergrad, he won first place in the CSU Statewide Research Competition in Arts and Letters and worked as a Writing Center Consultant. Matthew\u2019s current work explores the position of tabletop roleplaying games in fostering transmedia storytelling and the cross-mediatic movement of narrative. His dissertation examines game and narrative world-building, adaptation, narrative architecture, and using play to engage with the positive and negative legacies of Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. Matthew\u2019s previous work includes examinations of Comics and Graphic Novels, the intersections of Beer, Spirits, and Witchcraft, Children’s and YA Literature, Game Play as Pedagogy, and the impact of Generative AI (LLMs) on Academic writing. Outside of Academia, he is a tinkerer, an avid player of analog and video games, a musician, camper, and a voracious reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Max\u00a0Berwald (he\/him) received his B.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University and is a doctoral student in the School of Cinematic Arts. He has taught English as a second language at a variety of levels, led workshops on screenwriting and memoir, and worked professionally in copywriting and public relations. Areas of writing expertise include literary analysis, film studies, history, professional writing, and creative writing. His fiction has appeared in\u00a0Blackbird<\/i>, the\u00a0<\/span>Massachusetts Review<\/i>,\u00a0Chicago Quarterly Review,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>as part of \u00a0Tin\u00a0<\/span>House<\/i>\u2019s online flash fiction series, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Robert Waller (he\/him) is Director of the Writing Center and an Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Writing Program. Professor Waller received his bachelor\u2019s degree from Duke University, where he studied oral history and music, and has a degree in creative writing from USC. \u00a0 Robert has over 20 years of experience teaching writing with a particular focus on using writing as a tool to explore and reveal the creative process. At USC, he developed the popular Special Topics WRIT 340 course, Writing for Visual and Performing Artists, that aims to help students articulate their own aesthetics and through this process expand their understanding both of writing and the meanings and purposes driving their work.\u00a0 In addition to his work at USC, Waller is also an active performing songwriter and musician who has toured internationally and had his songs appear in TV and film. Robert lives in Highland Park with his wife, three children, and two cats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Roger Anderson (he\/him) earned his Bachelor\u2019s degree from Vanderbilt University, where he studied English Literature and Art History, and his Master\u2019s degree from the English Department at USC in the Film, Literature and Culture program. Prior to joining the Writing Center, Roger taught freshman writing courses in USC\u2019s Writing Program, where he also served as an Instructional Coordinator. Roger has a passion for working with international students, helping them master not only the grammatical and syntactical aspects of writing in English but also the rhetorical and stylistic expectations of the academic discourse community.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sandra Ross is a second generation Trojan and native Angeleno who spends her time away from USC exploring bookshops, theaters, and art galleries from Venice to East LA. She is a fan of punk rock and an avid art collector, with a focus on contemporary Southern California artists. Sandra also collects pulp fiction novels from the 1950s, finding them insightful sociological documents of the time period, as well as examples of overwrought prose. An advocate for social justice and free speech, she draws inspiration from her students. She presented “The Rhetoric of Apology: Or I’m Sorry YOU Feel that Way” at the 2015 CCCC, “The Erasure of Memory in Los Angeles” at the 2016 PAMLA Conference, and “Race, Class, Gender, and Zombies” at the 2018 FWPCA Conference. In addition, she is writing a murder mystery set in Echo Park which focuses on a nefarious cult of vegan hipsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Stephanie Mullings (she\/her) is a Ph.D. student in Creative Writing and Literature. She received her B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Michigan and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University. Her main areas of writing expertise include creative writing, social sciences and humanities, history, and academic writing. Stephanie\u2019s fiction writing has appeared in various literary magazines, including\u00a0Boulevard<\/em>,\u00a0Catapult<\/em>, the\u00a0Los Angeles Review,\u00a0<\/em>and elsewhere. She is originally from Chicago, an avid WNBA and N.B.A. fan, and a proud sneakerhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Vanessa Osborne (she\/ her) earned an MA and PhD in English from UC Irvine. She has worked in various departments at USC including American Studies & Ethnicity, General Education, the Spatial Sciences Institute and The Writing Program. She is currently an Associate Teaching Professor of Writing in Dornsife\u2019s Writing Program. For over ten years she served as the Writing Faculty for the Spatial Sciences Institute and \u00a0worked one-on-one with Masters level students on their thesis writing. Consequently, she has extensive experience helping students with technical and project-based writing. She has taught numerous iterations of Writing 150 and 340, with a particular focus on Health Sciences and Globalization topics. She has published in journals and edited collections on literary topics, pop culture topics like\u00a0<\/span>Phineas & Ferb<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Brokeback Mountain<\/i>\u00a0and Writing and Rhetoric topics such asWikipedia<\/i>\u00a0and Generative AI. She enjoys hiking, travel and playing the\u00a0<\/span>New York Times\u00a0<\/span><\/i>word games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Viriya Yoo (she\/her) is a PhD candidate in USC\u2019s Department of English. She received her BA in Literature from American University. Her research interests include Southeast Asian American literature, critical refugee studies, and genocide studies. She is particularly passionate about working with students of color, first generation students, and nontraditional students, helping them to navigate higher education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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Yousef Alghawi (they\/them) is a third year Ph.D. in the Division of Cinema and Media Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts. They received their B.A. in Political Science and English, with a minor in philosophy, from the University of Florida and an M.A. in Cinema Studies at New York University. Yousef is a cross-disciplinary writer who works throughout a range of discourses, subjects, and mediums, including political science, literature, film, theory, sociology and anthropology, among others. Yousef has also worked many years in non-profit, political, and activist spaces, with a wealth of experience with CVs, applications and r\u00e9sum\u00e9s. Yousef\u2019s research revolves around film as philosophy, ethics, postmodernist literature, audio-visual decay, phenomenology, gender, and political ideologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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