Lee Rumbarger
Lee Rumbarger is director of the Vassar College Writing Center. She teaches writing process and pedagogy for Vassar’s interdisciplinary College Course program, and literature and writing as a visiting assistant professor of English. Her current research examines a pedagogical project on the part of women modernists Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf to train a larger public as readers and writers: she argues that their popular texts addressing and redressing the academy’s failure to teach nontraditional students, as Stein would say, “how writing is written,” present a surprisingly radical vision of an unbounded writing classroom. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2006.
At Vassar, Lee meets individually with student and faculty writers, has initiated the campus-wide Conversations on Writing series, and enjoys working with the Writing Center’s student consultants, particularly in their roles as designated course consultants. She says she wants the Writing Center to serve as a hub where all Vassar writers find support and community.