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Matthew Luskey

Matthew Luskey

Director

Director of Writing Across the Curriculum Program, directs the WEC Program—offering undergraduate departments an intensive, faculty-driven approach for strengthening relevant writing and writing instruction within undergraduate curricula—and the Teaching with Writing Program. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Oregon and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and rhetoric, literature, film, media aesthetics, Liberal Studies, and Education.


Office phone: (612) 626-7639
Email: [email protected]

Dan Emery

Daniel Emery

Assistant Director

Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, works closely with department faculty to develop and implement writing plans. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and has been a curriculum leader (Oklahoma) and director of a Writing Center (Utah).


Office phone: (612) 625-0849
Email: [email protected]

Jessa Wood

Jessa Wood

Assistant Director

Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, works closely with department faculty to develop and implement writing plans. Jessa earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Rhetoric & Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.


Office Phone: (612) 624-0973
Email: [email protected]

Heidi Solomonson

Heidi Solomonson

Program and Communications Manager

Program and Communications Manager manages programmatic systems and operations for the WEC and TWW programs, manages budgets and helps to set fiscal strategy, manages program communications, data, and assessment, oversees event logistics, and assists academic units engaged in the WEC process. She has a B.S. in Business Administration.


Office phone: (612) 625-0791
Email: [email protected]

Reilly Jaworski

Reilly Jaworski

WEC Research Assistant

Student Research Assistant for the WEC Program, collects and organizes student writing samples across undergraduate departments for assessment and teaching tools. Reilly is pursuing a B.A. in English and a minor in Creative Writing. 


Email: [email protected]

Pamela Flash

Pamela Flash

Founding Director

Founding Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, held several teaching and administrative appointments over her thirty-three year career at the University of Minnesota. From 2001 to 2024, she led the Writing Across the Curriculum Program as the program’s first director. She inaugurated the Teaching with Writing Program, which has served the Twin Cities Campus (and increasingly all system campuses) with faculty seminars, workshops, panel discussions, book circles, and short courses for faculty members and instructors who assign any form of writing in their courses.

Pamela is available to serve as a consultant for other universities interested in developing and maintaining WEC-related initiatives.


Email: [email protected]

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