Profile of Thomas Ferrel

Thomas Ferrel

Director of the Writing Studio, Co-Director of the Greater Kansas City Writing Project and an Instructor at UMKC
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Biography

Thomas Ferrel is director of the Writing Studio, an assistant teaching professor in the Department of English, and a co-director of the Greater Kansas City Writing Project. He has a Ph.D. in English and Education Leadership, Policies, and Foundations from the University of Missouri-Kansas City; an M.A. in English (literary and cultural studies emphasis) from the University of Hawai'i at Mãnoa; and a B.A. in English with a minor in history from MidAmerica Nazarene University. Thomas has published in Composition Forum, Praxis, Across the Disciplines, the National Writing Project's Projects in Action series, and The Writing Center Journal. He enjoys working with writers from any discipline and at any point of the writing process and particularly appreciates opportunities to gain new perspectives and knowledge from writers working in fields outside of his own.

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Expertise

  • critical pedagogy, institutional social justice work and writing center studies