Writing Center Staff

Interim: Chelsey Brown, Assistant Director of Academic Services. Email: cbrown05@bellarmine.edu 

Assistant Dean of Academic Services: Dr. Dominique Clayton

LIBR A05 • 502.272.8453 • dclayton@bellarmine.edu

Dominique M Clayton Dr. Dominique Clayton earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Beloit College and a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies, specializing in social and cultural foundations of education and writing studies, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Clayton’s interests include studying the ways in which African American English speakers navigate school spaces, the racialization of language practices and language ideologies, the identity development of college students as writers, and underrepresented student schooling experiences.

Writing Coaches

  • Lizzie Fairchild
  • Audrey Gilbert 
  • Sav Gripshover 
  • Sam Bryan 
  • Mallory Schnecker 

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Miss Penelope "Pibble" Primrose

Pibble
  • Born February 26, 2019
  • Instagram: @pibblethehedgehog
  • Miss Penelope Primrose, or “Pibble," supports Bellarmine University's Writing Center by providing invaluable moral and emotional support to our writing tutors and tutees. Her resume also includes her summer as a pictorial support/inspiration intern at local marketing and copywriting firm, WordsFresh. In her spare time, she sleeps 20 hours per day, loves to eat strawberries, and works as an up-and-coming Instagram Influencer and model.