Amanda Stack

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Composition, Writing & Rhetoric, grading equity

Amanda is currently a PhD candidate in Mason's Writing & Rhetoric program. Her dissertation research focuses on grading equity and accuracy in composition/first-year writing. Amanda also earned her MFA in nonfiction at Mason. Her MFA thesis focuses on epilepsy with a blend of research and personal narrative. Her research targets stigma and misunderstandings of epileptics throughout history; the personal narrative focuses on her own experiences as an epileptic, her grandmother’s experiences as an epileptic, and the true meaning of inheritance.

Education

Ph.D in Writing & Rhetoric, George Mason University
- set to graduate in May 2027
M.F.A in Creative Nonfiction Writing, George Mason University, May 2018
- Thesis: Grand(mal): A Collection of Epileptic Essays
  Committee: Dr. Kyoko Mori, Tim Denevi, & Dr. Sally Keith
  GPA:3.89
B.A., English, St. Lawrence University, May 2014
A.A., Humanities, Finger Lakes Community College, May 2012