Hadis Ghaedi (ghaedih@uncsa.edu) is the co-director of the Writing Center/ESL program at UNCSA. She has been teaching ESL/EFL and academic writing courses in higher education for more than a decade. She received her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition, with a minor in English Language and Linguistics, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include learners' perceptions, discourse analysis, L2/academic writing, and second language acquisition. Having lived in the U.S. for over a decade, she is deeply attuned with the difficulties faced by international students and English Language users. She brings both personal understanding and a research-informed approcach to her work, helping students from diverse backgrounds. She is on campus weekdays and can meet with you in person or via Zoom.
Nora Streed (streedr@uncsa.edu) has been with the UNCSA Writing Center since 2015. She has degrees in both theoretical and applied linguistics as well as Teaching English as a Second Language (University of Minnesota and Winston-Salem State University). She also has many years of experience as a writer, researcher, reporter, tutor, writing coach, and editor. She shares with Hadis an interest in discourse analysis and second language acquisition; and in addition to storytelling, communication, and language, Nora’s interests include art, design, gardening, music, science, and transportation policy. She currently lives in rural Missouri and can meet with you online via Zoom.