Assistant Director, Center for Writing Studies
Biography
Finola McMahon is an PhD student in the department of English and the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She finished her MA in English, here at UIUC, in Spring of 2021.
Finola McMahon grew up near Houston, Texas. She completed her BA in Emerging Media and Communication at The University of Texas, Dallas, with a minor in Computer Science. She worked as a writing tutor while at UTD and continued to do so in the year before attending UIUC.
Research Interests
Collaborative Composition, Digital Writing, New or Emerging Medias, and Queer Studies
Courses Taught
WRIT/INFO 303: Writing Across Media
Rhetoric 102: Principles of Research
Rhetoric 101: Principles of Writing
Rhetoric 105: Writing and Research