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Pomona
College Appoints Director of College Writing
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Dara Rossman Regaignon has been appointed director of
college writing and assistant professor of English at Pomona
College. In this newly created position, Regaignon will
oversee the operation of the college’s writing program,
including the writing intensive freshman seminars. Regaignon
comes to Pomona from Princeton University, where she was
assistant director for faculty and tutor development for its
writing program.
Regaignon has a doctorate in English Literature from
Brandeis University. She earned a master’s at Brandeis and a
bachelor’s at Amherst College, from which she graduated
summa cum laude. Regaignon later served as assistant
director of university writing at Brandeis.
Pomona’s writing program has consisted of freshman writing
seminars in various disciplines, accompanied by supplemental
writing seminars. The writing seminars all have different
and specific content, depending on their topics, so
professors have taught writing in different ways. Regaignon
will help shape the program to teach writing more
efficiently and consistently in all academic disciplines.
She will help create a curriculum that uses different
disciplines from the humanities to the sciences to teach
common writing goals and techniques needed by all college
students.
She’ll “work to make the culture of writing at the college
become more varied and vigorous,” said faculty member Paul
Saint-Amour, head of the search committee that hired
Regaignon.
Regaignon will also expand the college writing fellows
program, which identifies and trains students to assist
their peers.
“Experienced writers consistently turn to other thoughtful
writers for outside readings of their work, but too often
students think that asking for that type of feedback is a
sign of weakness,” she said. “It’s my hope that we’ll be
able to make a visit to the Writing Center a part of most
students’ normal writing process.”
Regaignon, who attended a liberal arts college, said the
mission and feel of Pomona are appealing to her, especially
the emphasis placed on writing.
“The commitment that Pomona has made to writing as a central
piece of a liberal arts education is one that I find
inspiring,” she said. “In my conversations with faculty,
I’ve already gotten a sense of the generous energy and
thoughtfulness that they bring to the work of teaching. With
that kind of enthusiasm and commitment on the part of both
the institution and the individual faculty, I’m inclined to
think that all things are possible.”
Regaignon’s own writing immediately caught the attention of
the search committee, and when she came to campus, the
choice was clear. Regaignon held a mock writing workshop and
faculty watched her work through a student paper: “By the
end of it, those of us on the search committee were already
thinking in new ways,” Saint-Amour said. “It was really
clear to us that she would be able to excite the faculty
about writing instruction.”
Pomona College enrolls about 1,500 students and offers a
comprehensive program in the arts, humanities, social
sciences and natural sciences. Its hallmarks include small
classes, close relationships between students and faculty,
and a range of opportunities for student research. For more
information on Pomona College, visit its website at
www.pomona.edu. |
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