Writing Consultants

Tait Bergstrom

Director

Languages: English, Chinese (Mandarin)

Background: Applied Linguistics, English Language and Rhetoric

Tait is the Director of the Graduate Writing Center. Born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, He received his A.B. in Chinese Language and Literature from Dartmouth College and did his doctoral work in language and literacy at the University of Washington. Before coming to Oregon State University, he taught English and rhetoric and served as the Director of the Writers’ Centre at the National University of Singapore. His research involves interactional sociolinguistics, multilingual literacy, and multimodal communication, and has been published in such journals as Applied Linguistics, TESOL Journal, and Composition Forum. He has also worked in China for an educational materials publisher and created comics for a children’s English language newspaper. He still makes comics with his friends when he can find the time.

Adam Haley

Senior Graduate Writing Consultant

Languages: English, some written Spanish

Background: Literary and Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Rhetoric and Composition

Adam Haley (he/him) is the Graduate Writing Center’s senior graduate writing consultant and has been a part of the GWC since 2017. In addition to his role at Oregon State, he works as a freelance editor, thesis/dissertation coach, and technical writer; outside of academia, he has worked as a bookseller, medical transcriptionist, and wedding photographer. He earned his PhD in English from Penn State University in 2012, focusing on critical theory and contemporary American fiction and media, and has taught at the university level since 2006. In addition to a decade of writing and rhetoric classes, he has taught courses on science fiction, comics, fictional worlds, “weird” historical fiction, surveillance culture, and drones. His current research focuses on graduate student labor and identity formation as they intersect with writing, professional development, and wellbeing, towards the goal of building more robust

structures and practices of student support. In the GWC, he relishes helping graduate writers find their confidence, voice, and authority as researchers, practitioners, and educators amidst the typical crises of motivation, impostor syndrome, and disciplinary belonging. He is assisted in many of his remote writing consultations by three orange cats with little concept of privacy or personal space, and when he is not working in one capacity or another, he is typically playing or watching soccer.

Ashraful Islam

Graduate Writing Consultant

Languages: English

Background: Geography, Geospatial Sciences

Ashraful is a PhD student in Geography and Geospatial Sciences at Oregon State University (OSU) and holds a Master’s degree in the same field from OSU. He has extensive experience in academic writing and has authored several scholarly papers, including eleven published in reputable peer-reviewed journals. His research and writing cover diverse topics, such as geospatial analysis, remote sensing, environmental modeling, and urban microclimate studies. With a strong background in academic writing, Ashraful specializes in crafting clear, well-structured documents, including research papers, academic essays, and technical reports. He is really good at breaking down difficult concepts into manageable chunks and making a strong impression with them.

To learn more about Ashraful and his work, please visit: www.kmashrafulislam.com