Dr. Emily Isaacs is the chair of the English department and associate professor of English, specializing in writing and the teaching of writing, at both undergraduate and graduate levels. While director of the First-Year Writing Program (2000 to 2012) the Conference on College Composition and Communication honored Montclair State's First-Year Writing Program with the certificate in excellence award (2012). Currently her scholarship is focused on best practices for writing assessment and the national state of writing instruction and support at U.S. four-year universities. Recently her articles have appeared in _Pedagogy_, _College English_, _Writing Program Administration_, _Writing Center Journal_, _Journal of Teaching Writing_ and several book collections. Her edited book collection (with Phoebe Jackson) _Public Works: Student Writing as Public Text_ was published with Heinemann Boynton/Cook in 2001. 

Prof. Isaacs is in Dickson 468 and is available on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays by appointment through the department administrative staff.

Writing Instruction; Writing Assessment; Writing Program Administration; Writing Centers; Writing Instruction in the Secondary Schools