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Laura S. McKee

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Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum

Laura S. McKee (L.S. McKee) is Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum. In this role, she teaches in the English department and works with the Writing Intensive Program and the Willis Center for Writing to support program and curricular initiatives, especially those focused on supporting STEM and interdisciplinary writing in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and across campus. She teaches ENGL 3860W: Science Writing for General Audiences and WIPP 7001: Pedagogy of Writing in the Disciplines for STEM graduate students teaching writing-intensive undergraduate lab classes. She also collaborates with Dr. Catherine Edwards on writing and communication pedagogy for MARS 4800: Oceanography of the South Atlantic Bight.

​As an educator she is passionate about interdisciplinary subjects, especially those that explore connections between STEM and the Humanities. Her own writing explores these subjects. Her debut collection of poetry, Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, winner of the 2022 Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry selected by Tiana Clark, was published in Fall 2023.

She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. She has taught at several institutions, including MIT, where she was a lecturer in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication Program (WRAP) and taught writing in collaboration with STEM faculty. From 2014-2018 at the University of West Georgia, she co-directed the STEM-to-STEAM composition program, a first-year writing collaboration between the English Department and the College of Science and Mathematics that offered sections of English 1101 and 1102 for STEM majors that explored topics in science through a humanistic lens.

Of note:

Recent podcast appearance: Lock the Quill with Daniel Braunstein (MIT Mechanical Engineering & Pappalardo Lab Podcast): 
"Talking with the Engineer About Poetry: L.S. McKee on Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine"

Winner 2022 Zone 3 First Book Award in Poetry selected by Tiana Clark
 

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