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Jump to listing for: Department Leadership<\/a>, Administrative Services<\/a>, Full-Time Faculty<\/a>, Part-time Faculty<\/a><\/p>\n

Office Hours<\/h2>\n

If you need immediate assistance between the hours of 8 am and 4 pm, Monday through Friday, email email CHSSAdmin@montclair.edu<\/span><\/a> for assistance.<\/p>\n

If you have questions about the major or minor or need to talk to the Chair, email Jessica Restaino<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Questions about First-Year Writing should be directed to Tatum Petrich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Department Leadership<\/h2>\n
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\nJessica Restaino<\/a>\n

Schmitt Hall 304
\n973-655-7312<\/a>
\nrestainoj@montclair.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Jessica Restaino, Writing Studies Department chair<\/strong> and professor, received her PhD from Temple University. Her research interests include composition theory and pedagogy, writing teacher preparation, community-based and activist writing, feminist rhetorics and research methodologies, and rhetorics of health and medicine. She teaches courses across a range of department offerings. She is the author of Surrender: Feminist Rhetorics and Ethics in Love and Illness<\/em> (SIU Press 2019), recipient of the 2020 CCCC Outstanding Book Award; First Semester: Graduate Studies, Teaching Writing, and the Challenge of Middle Ground<\/em> (SWR\/NCTE 2012); and co-editor (with Laurie Cella) of Unsustainable: Re-Imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing, Service-Learning, and the University<\/em> (Lexington 2012). Her essays and book chapters appear widely, and she has served as an editorial board member for a number of professional publications, including College Composition and Communication<\/em>; and Composition Studies<\/em>.\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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Tatum Petrich<\/a><\/p>\n

Schmitt Hall 241A
\n973-655-7944<\/a>
\npetricht@montclair.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Dr. Tatum Petrich, Associate Teaching Professor and Director of First-Year Writing<\/strong>, received a PhD in English and a graduate certificate in Women\u2019s Studies from Temple University. She teaches courses in first-year writing, public and professional writing, and gender studies. Her research interests include composition and rhetoric, contemporary American literature, and the relationship between motherhood and race. <\/div><\/div>\n
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\nJazmine Thompson<\/a>\n

Schmitt Hall 302
\n973-655-7313<\/span><\/a>
\nthompsonj@montclair.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Jazmine Thompson, Associate Director of First-Year Writing<\/strong>, received an MBA from Metropolitan College of New York and an MAT in Secondary English Education from Relay Graduate School of Education. She teaches courses in the First-Year Writing program. Her work has been published by Teen Vogue, Ebony Magazine, and Essence Magazine.
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<\/a>Nate Huseman<\/a><\/p>\n

Schmitt Hall
\nhusemann@montclair.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Nate Huseman, Assistant Director of First-Year Writing<\/strong> and Assistant Teaching Professor, received his MA in English from Colorado State University. Prior to joining Montclair, he was a tenured faculty member at Laramie County Community College and has taught at community colleges and universities in Colorado, Wyoming, and New Jersey. His academic interests include first-year writing, developmental reading and writing, the first-year experience and new student seminar, faculty mentorship and pedagogy, as well as horror and pop culture as thematic approaches to first-year writing. He teaches courses in first-year writing and the Public and Professional Writing program.\n<\/div><\/div>\n

<\/a>Department Administrative Support Staff<\/h2>\n

Our administrative team can be reached at 973-655-7755<\/span><\/a><\/a>, via email at chssadmin@montclair.edu<\/a>, or in person in Schmitt 222.
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