BA, University of Chicago; MFA, George Mason Unversity
Liz Egan is a writing instructor and the Writing Center coordinator at Millsaps College.
She believes writing centers are important spaces for inquiry, discovery, idea generation,
intellectual conversation, and of course, writing practice. Egan envisions the Millsaps
Writing Center as a space for all writers, at all skill levels, and in all stages
of the writing process. Egan is particularly interested in writing pedagogies that
serve multilingual writers and invites students and faculty alike to visit the Writing
Center to learn more about teaching or studying with multilingual writers.
Egan embraces multiple modalities of writing and of teaching writing, so her approach
to teaching is to blend traditional forms of writing instruction and independent practice
with small group workshops and technologies that facilitate interactive approaches
to text generation and revision. The idea that writing is both process and social
enterprise is at the core of Liz's teaching philosophy.
Egan comes to Millsaps from George Mason University, where she served as assistant
director of the GMU Writing Center and taught writing courses including Composition,
Reading and Writing about Texts, and Intro to Creative Writing, a craft course that
surveys artistic techniques of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. She earned
her B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago in 2007
and earned her M.F.A. in creative writing with an emphasis on fiction from George
Mason University in 2014. Her thesis was an original collection of short fiction about
military culture. Egan also serves as a co-editor of Gazing Grain Press, an inclusive
feminist chapbook press that publishes poetry, prose, and hybrid texts.