Appointments

• Writing Center Specialist
• Adjunct Graduate Faulty

Biography

Brian Harrell has been an adjunct graduate faculty member at NEOMED since 2018, teaching in the College of Graduate studies. His research writing courses span many cohorts, including Medical Ethics and Humanities, Global Health and Innovations, Health Systems Science and Foundations of Medicine. In 2022, Brian started the NEOMED Writing Center as a Pilot Program that ends in the summer of 2024, to help students of all colleges in their high stakes writing.

Expertise and Research Interests

Brian’s research interests include academic writing, AI in academics, writing center theory composition theory, composition pedagogy, and the rhetoric of health and medicine.

Education

Associate of Arts, Liberal Arts, Stark State College, 2006-2007
Bachelor of Arts, English, Kent State University, 2007-2010
Master of Arts, English Composition, University of Akron, 2010-2012

Courses

Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Research Writing for Scholarship
Medical Ethics and Humanities Foundation Course

Activities

• Online Writing Center Association Board Member
• Global Society of Online Literacy Educators Webinar Committee
• Conference on College Composition and Communication Conference Volunteer
• Two-Year College Association Conference VolunteerInternational Writing Center
• Association Member

Presentations

• “Co-Curricularly Speaking: Creating the Northeast Ohio Medical University Writing Center.” AAMC 2023
• “Artificial Intelligence in First-Year Composition and the Two-Year College.” Two-Year College English Association National Conference. Spokane, Wa. April 2024
• “Methodologically Speaking: Situating RHM in Medical School Writing Centers.” Conference on College Composition and Communication 2023. Chicago, Ill. February 2023.
• “Public Intellectualism in Action: A Community Writing Workshop” Conference on College Composition and Communication 2018. Kansas City, MO. March 2018
• “Cultivating Curiosity with the Annotated Bibliography.” Two-Year College English Association, Midwest Conference 2017. St. Paul, MN. October 2017