FACULTY/SUPPORT STAFF

Bob Haslam - Director
Jacqueline Jones - ELC Lead Tutor/Coordinator of Peer Tutoring
Kelly Westeen - Honors Writing Consultant
James Wright - Mullins Lead Tutor/Coordinator of ESL Tutoring

Current Tutors

Jack Ayres	Jack is a PhD student in English literature. Although born in Columbia, MO, Jack grew up in Topeka, KS, and attended the University of Kansas as an undergraduate; he double-majored in Film Studies & Western Civilization, with a minor in English. After KU, he earned a Masters in English from Kansas State University, before coming to Fayetteville and studying at the University of Arkansas. His academic interests include public intellectualism, twentieth century British & American literature, modern British drama, comics, and film.
Grant Bain	Grant is a Ph.D. student at the University of Arkansas, currently working on Southern literature and badger studies. He was born in Benton, Arkansas (slightly southwest of Little Rock), attended Hendrix College in Conway, and then moved to Fayetteville to pursue graduate studies. His interest in Southern literature arose from his first encounter with William Faulkner in the tenth grade.
Dolly Hayde	Dolly is a senior from North Little Rock with majors in English, Anthropology, and American Studies. Her favorite things include PowerPoint presentations, all manner of movies, food that looks like other food, high heels, and P-Funk. Despite her nerdiness about linguistics, she can be summed up by numbers: 20% coffee, 20% Haribo Gold-Bears, 60% hair products.
Thomas Henry	Thomas Henry is a master's student at the University of Arkansas. He was born in Salem, MA but most recently hails from central Arkansas, where he received his BA at Hendrix College. His academic interests include Marxism, American and French film of the 1960's and 70's, and American fiction from the first half of the 20th century.
Amy Hodges	Amy Hodges is from Ruston, Louisiana, home of good peaches, gumbo, and country folk. After graduating from Louisiana Tech University in 2005, Amy came to the University of Arkansas under the impression that students had a three day holiday for Mardi Gras. She is still mad about that. Amy is a Ph.D. candidate in 19th century British literature and will eventually get around to writing her dissertation. She enjoys watching Z-list celebrities on reality dating shows, shouting at the people on her television, and living vicariously through Joel McHale on The Soup.
Chloe Honum	Chloë grew up on the North Island of New Zealand, a gorgeous country with roughly four million people and forty million sheep. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Arkansas. She enjoys reading, writing, eating natural foods, and traveling.
Jacqueline Jones	I have climbed a 14,000 foot mountain in Colorado at the age of 11. I have swum above a sunken ship off the coast of Bermuda at the age of 17. When I am not teaching or tutoring, I am watching nature's TV: a fire.
Jonathan Langley	Jonathan is currently a Master's student and Teaching Assistant in the French Department. Hailing from Central Arkansas, he highly values the need for new culture. As an undergraduate, Jonathan majored in English here at the UofA and completed an Honors Thesis on the Western works of Cormac McCarthy. With what little freetime he has, Jonathan enjoys playing music, traveling, and cooking new types of food.
Jacob Lewis	Jacob is a PhD Candidate and ever-more-tedious medievalist in the English department at the University of Arkansas. In addition to the requisite "liking reading and teaching" and all that, he also likes music, cooking, movies, etc., though you can keep the pina coladas and long walks. He's also an inveterate grouch, though whether or not he in fact he has a heart of gold is up for debate.[1] After years of believing that he wanted to be just like Rupert Giles, Jacob has discovered that he would much rather be like Gregory House, as it's more fun to be a genius AND give in to sarcasm.[2] __________ [1] He does. It's behind the bronzed spleen and the crystal skull. [2] Looking like Hugh Laurie would also be a bonus.
Bailey McBride	Bailey Elise McBride is a sophomore from beautiful Tulsa, OK. She is pursuing a fun double major in Journalism and Anthropology with a minor in Spanish and is excited to see where those very different paths will lead her. Bailey writes for The Arkansas Traveler and is a host on Campus Crossfire on UATV. She is also a proud member of the University of Arkansas debate team. Bailey is a vegetarian and loves techno dance parties, liberalism, and taking care of her plants and lovely fish, Elliott. She agrees with Jack Handy, “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it.”
Rebecca Moore	Becca is a pursuing her MA at the University of Arkansas. Her main (though by no means only) interest lies in Renaissance poetry. She was born and raised in Edmond, OK, just north of Oklahoma City, but has traveled to over half of the United States as well as the U.K. and Mexico. She graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Bachelors in English after transferring from the business program. As an English major, she is of course interested in reading and in literary criticism. Her other interests include her nieces, cooking, socializing, traveling, the show Bones, and her husky, Gambit (who makes sure that she gets her exercise). She runs on sweet tea and deeply dislikes any temperature lower than 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
Austin Reid	Austin is a sophomore English and Philosophy major from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. With verbal wit and English accent at the ready, Austin lives as a gentleman of leisure, dabbling in all forms of culture from Salvador Dali to Snoop Dogg. Having already accomplished his life’s goal by throwing a snowball at the Kremlin, Austin is currently reevaluating his ambitions, but would like to continue to study literature after he graduates.
Nancy Romig	Nancy is a PhD student in literature who just moved from central Texas where she completed her undergraduate and MA work in literature. While she loves the Lone Star State, she is glad to be in Fayetteville. Nancy enjoys tutoring writing because it will hopefully help one more generation of college students be better writers and a little less stressed out. She is a twin, once worked at Disney World, and has never met a vegetable that she didn’t like.
Catherine Roth	Catherine Roth grew up in Selma, Alabama, and Hope, Arkansas. The former is a land of Civil War reenactments and Civil Rights marches, the latter the birthplace of Bill Clinton and the world's largest watermelons. Catherine studied Art History and Arts Management before finding herself at home in an English department. She received her BA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2004 and is currently working towards an MFA in Creative Writing.
Amy Schmidt	Amy is originally from Jonesboro, Arkansas. She earned her B.A. in English from Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas before completing her M.A. in Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. Currently, she is working towards a Ph.D. in English here at the University of Arkansas. Her main interests are Twentieth-Century American Literature, generally, and Southern American Literature, specifically.
Iris Shepard	Iris Shepard is a second-year doctoral candidate. Her areas of interest include resistance literature, 20th c. American literature, popular culture, and ageism. She is the mother of two boys, William and Robin. In addition to school and mothering, she is the bass player in the electronica rock band Hosta and a bicycle advocate.
Molly Staires-Carman	Molly is a PhD student in English literature. Originally from Oklahoma, Molly appreciates Fayetteville's cooler summers and rolling landscapes. She also appreciates apples, young adult fiction, golden retrievers, NOVA Specials, and poetry.
Elizabeth Vammen	Liza is from Conway, Arkansas where she was a proud Wampus Cat (a blue cat with six legs, four to run at the speed of light and two to fight with all its might). She is currently a junior majoring in English and Spanish with hopes of teaching abroad in the future. In her free time, she enjoys going to the farmers market, biking, reading, and watching South Park. She has also spent way too much time trying to think of something clever to put on this profile and hasn’t succeeded.
Kelly Westeen	Kelly came to Arkansas in August of 2005 from the winter wonderland of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where she was born and raised, making her an authentic Yooper. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English and is particularly interested in Renaissance Literature, and it is the love of reading Renaissance blackletter texts that has nearly blinded her. In the spare time she does have, Kelly enjoys spending mindless hours online and/or watching various TV shows she is too embarrassed to name here, obsessing over her cats, going nutso over motorcycle racing and racers, honing her skills as a future gourmet chef with a Ph.D. in English, skiing, and enjoying the tropical weather (well, tropical to her, anyway) here in Arkansas.
Eve Williams	Brought up in 18 different places around the world, Eve was in for a (pleasant) shock when she arrived at the University of Arkansas last year. This place has cows. Real, live, moo-ing cows. Besides delighting in domestic bovine, Eve spends her time here pursuing an M.A. in English (originally it was Gender Studies, until she discovered it was not such a great place to meet boys) and Field Marshall status in the MMORPG World of Warcraft. She once wrote a brilliant, but critically ignored novel, and now focuses on adapting late 18th century romances into screenplays.
James Wright	James Wright is a native Kentuckian who came to the University of Arkansas to pursue an MFA degree in poetry. James is a former high school football player and a former ESL instructor in Japan. He is a member of the Kentucky mafia.

Current Workstudies

Meggan Banks	Meggan is a senior planning to graduate in May with a Bachelor's in Journalism. She moved here two years ago from the big state, Texas. Her favorite pastimes are reading and listening to groovy music. She enjoys the sounds of classic rock, modern rock, and "future rock", aka techno. She is also a big lover of animals, which is evident in her spoiled rotten pit bull named Penny Lane. Meggan also prefers warm weather and hopes to live on the beach one day very soon. Besides working as a workstudy, Meggan is also the webmaster for the website here at the QWC.
Jessica Browne	Jessica Browne was originally born in London, England. More recently, she moved to Arkansas from a small town called Bandon on the Southern Oregon Coast. She is a sophomore Journalism major here at the university, and hopes to go on to law school after graduation. In her spare time she like to read, write, and Facebook. She lives at home with her parents and three wonderful siblings.
Elizabeth Chitwood	Elizabeth is a freshman from Van Buren, Arkansas. She is an uncommon pre-dental student majoring in business, who hopes to become a pediatric dentist. Elizabeth loves spending time on her gramma’s farm where she can enjoy nature, work, the porch swing, and even cows. Currently, she is becoming a huge fan of the turbo-kick class given by awesome Meg! “Where hope grows, miracles blossom.”
Josh Gatlin	Josh Gatlin is from the SLC, South Logan County, Arkansas and enlisted in the United States Navy to train for a sweet job as a Fire Control Technician aboard 688-I class submarines. After serving for 5 years on active duty aboard USS Columbus, he decided to be honorably discharged and spend the next 3-5 years studying to become an Electrical Engineer and possibly dive further into the world of M.B.As.
Sarah Guinn	My name is Sarah and I'm a sophomore at the U of A this year. I first started off majoring in Business, but decided to change my major to English/Journalism and I'm so glad that I did! When I'm not writing, studying or sleeping I really enjoy adventuring with my friends and going to Devil's Den State park. I love driving with my music way too loud, discovering new things and seizing the day!
Ashley Little	My name is Ashley Little and I'm a freshman. I'm from a small town in Arkansas called Marianna (we don't even have a McDonalds). I enjoy reading, writing, running, and hanging out with my girlfriends. I'm a business accounting major. One day I would like to work for a well-known company and make tons of money. But before I move on to the big leagues I'm looking foward to graduating from college and going to graduate school. My favorite food is mac and cheese and I would like to visit Korea one day!
Courtney Massengale	Courtney Massengale is from a weee little town south of Harrison, AR, called Valley Springs. She is a sophomore in the Walton College of Business. She is a declared Finance major, but has no idea what she wants to do with it. If you want to be her bestest friend, you should make her a cheese cake and rent a cheesy movie (no pun intended)!
Julian Schroer	I'm a late-blooming college student who was knocking around the country, mostly the west, for about a decade before settling down. I first worked as a carpenter for several years, but now study International Relations and Geography, and I'd like to do something useful with the degrees once I'm done. I live in Springdale with my lovely wife and our four enthusiastic kids, and we love the Ozarks as much as any other place we've been (well, most places anyway). We feel that life is a gift, and we try to be thankful for it.
May Vue	May Vue is a Junior majoring in Human Development and Family Sciences with a concentration in Lifespan and a minor is Social Work. Her hometown is Wausau, WI but is currently residing is Fayetteville, AR. Like in other girl she loves to shop. During her free time she likes to take walks, go swimming, and plan dinner theme parties. She has a new appetite for sushi.
Kelsey Ward	Kelsey is a freshman Kinesiology major here at Arkansas. After receiving her Bachelor's degree, she plans to go to Physical Therapy school to become a pediatrics' or sports' physical therapist. From Texarkana, TX, she is not quite used to all of the hills yet, but loves the outdoors and is looking forward to snow in the winter. In her spare time she enjoys working out, watching the Food Network, along with numerous other TV shows, visiting with her family, and sleeping as much as possible. Kelsey has been a lifetime fan of the Razorbacks, and can't wait to experience all that college has to offer.