Meet the WAC Faculty Consultants
The WAC faculty consultants are available to meet with UC Davis instructors to discuss all aspects of writing instruction and support for undergraduate and graduate students. To make an appointment, contact Kendon Kurzer (kckurzer@ucdavis.edu) for undergraduate writing concerns, or Kathie Gossett (kegossett@ucdavis.edu) for graduate writing concerns.
Marit MacArthur | Associate Director of Graduate Writing Across the Curriculum
Marit MacArthur teaches writing in the workplace and in the sciences, and has expertise and interests in career preparation and development for undergraduate and graduate students, grant writing, and collaborative interdisciplinary research. Marit enjoys helping faculty and TAs in any discipline develop the writing components of their courses; her published research brings together religious, literary, performance and voice studies, speech perception, audio signal processing, statistical analysis, and data visualization. She has held ACLS Digital Innovations and Fulbright Research Fellowships, and co-directed a NEH Digital Humanities Advancement grant project, Tools for Listening to Texts-in-Performance. Through 2025, Marit is a co-investigator on The SpokenWeb, a Can$2.5 million SHHRC partnership grant. Other projects include a Cal Humanities-sponsored research and documentary film project, Camp to Campus, about first-generation college graduates from a migrant labor background. Marit joined UWP in 2017 and is also a faculty affiliate with the Performance Studies Graduate Group.
Kendon Kurzer | Associate Director of Undergraduate Writing Across the Curriculum
Kendon finished his Ph.D. in education (with an emphasis in writing and composition studies) at UC Davis a couple of years back and stuck around as a full-time lecturer in the University Writing Program where he teaches a wide range of classes. His previous degrees in applied linguistics have prepared him to work effectively with UCD's diverse student population. His primary research/teaching interests involve supporting multilingual students beyond writing classes into their discipline-specific contexts and written corrective feedback (with four recent articles published on the topic).
Writing Across the Curriculum Consultants