Carmen Lowe, Director
Carmen directs the Writing Fellows Program and the Academic Resource Center at Tufts University. She began tutoring writing in 1987 as an undergraduate at Grand Valley State University’s Writing Center. From 1990 to 1994, she taught reading, writing, and communication skills to adults working at Ford Motor Company factory near Detroit. She came to Tufts in 1994 to pursue graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in English in 2003. She has worked at the ARC since 1999, when she was the College Writing Program Tutor for the English Department. She became Assistant Director of Writing Resources, under Nadia Medina, in Fall 2001 and Director of the ARC in June 2005.

Amalia Jiva, Assistant Director
Amalia joined the staff of the ARC and Writing Fellows Program in August 2005. Before that, she was a graduate-level Senior Writing Fellow at Boston University and a Second Language Specialist at Suffolk University. She has taught courses in English, writing, and the humanities at Suffolk University, Salem State College, American Councils for International Education, and the Florida Language Center. She has an M.S. in Applied Linguistics and is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Interpretation Theory, Literature, and Religion through Boston University’s University Professors Department.



In Memoriam: Nadia Medina, Founder of Tufts Writing Fellows Program