Director
Van E. Hillard
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

Email:  Van Hillard
Office Location:  Chambers 3135
Phone:  704-894-2974  Fax:  704-894-2842



Van E. Hillard has taught in the fields of Rhetoric and Writing Studies for the past thirty years,  sixteen of them spent at Duke University, where he directed the University Writing Program. His interests include visual rhetorics, deliberative writing, and the operations of public memory. With his Duke colleague Elizabeth Kiss, he received a five-year grant from the Hewlett Foundation to develop methods for teaching the arts of deliberation in the face of moral disagreement.  He has published essays on civic rhetoric, U.S. literacy education, and public memorials.  


Shireen Campbell
Professor of English
B.A., Florida Atlantic University
Ph. D., Tulane

Email:  Shireen Campbell
Office location:  Chambers 2290   
Phone:  704-894-2312  Fax:  704-894-2782

Professor Campbell’s teaching interests range from writing in different contexts and for varied purposes to rhetorical history, the theory and practice of teaching composition, creative nonfiction, young adult fiction, and modern American and British literature.   

Paul Miller, Director of Writing Center 2012-14
Associate Professor of English
B.A., College of Wooster
M.A., Ohio State (Philosophy)
M.A., Ohio State (English)
Ph.D., Ohio State

Email:  Paul Miller 
Office location:  Chambers 2011 
Phone:  704-894-2271  Fax:  704-894-2782

Professor Miller specializes in nonfiction writing, film, and literary theory.  He has particular interests in composition theory, writing-across-the-curriculum, documentary film, literacy and technology, and narrative theory.  His most recent publications concern documentary film theory and techniques for responding to writing.

Rebeca Fernandez
Coordinator of Non Native English Writing
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies
B.S., Boston University
Ed.M., Ed.D. Harvard University

Email: Rebeca Fernandez
Office location: Writing Center, Chambers (N) B-039B
Phone: 704-894-2075  Fax: 704-894-2842

Rebeca Fernandez has focused on the academic socialization and language development of non-native English speakers through teaching, research and teacher professional development for the past fifteen years. She has taught writing to immigrant and international students at the University of California, Los Angeles and Central Piedmont Community College. Her areas of interest include English for specific purposes, computer assisted language learning, teacher education, writing in the disciplines, and bilingual language and literacy acquisition.


Administrative Assistant
Nancy Randazzo

Email:  Nancy Randazzo
Office location:  Writing Center, Chambers (N) B-039
Phone:  704-894-2472  Fax:  704-894-2842