Sandie Friedman

Sandie Friedman is an assistant professor in the University Writing Program. She has served as the First-Year Writing Program’s Director, and also as the Deputy Director of the GW Writing Center. Since coming to GW in 2005, she has enjoyed teaching seminars with a variety of topics, ranging from film to writing studies, but her current course is her favorite: The New Vanguard: Women Writing Radical Fiction. Dr. Friedman received her PhD in American Studies from New York University, her MA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and her undergraduate degree in English and philosophy from Barnard College. Prior to coming to GW, she held a post-doctoral appointment in the Princeton Writing Program, where she taught courses on cultural memory. Selected for her research on multidisciplinary approaches to teaching first-year writing, she was a participant in the 2018 Dartmouth Writing Research Seminar. Her work on teaching has appeared in Composition Forum, Enculturation, Inside Higher Ed, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and Writing on the Edge, among others. Most recently, she published an article in the Journal of Literacy Innovation on labor-based grading as an antiracist practice. Her essays and fiction have appeared in publications including Ethel, The Nonconformist, The Nervous Breakdown, New Flash Fiction Review, and The Rumpus.