As a junior in Campuswide Honors Collegium majoring in Political Science, I am well-aware of the vigorous writing standards expected of UCI students. My writing strengths include generating complex arguments, organization, and improving the fluidity of a paper. As a second year tutor, I super excited to be back, and I am looking forward to working with anyone in any stage of their draft!

Deni is a 6th-year PhD student in the Drama department, and holds an MFA in Writing from the California Institute of the Arts. Their research explores ways of navigating selfhood/identity and social dynamics in multiple realities, by bringing performance studies, digital media, and experimental genres of writing (such as autotheory) into conversation with consciousness (and psychedelic) studies, as well as queer, feminist, and trans* epistemologies. Their interests include consciousness-expanding (“psychedelic”) performance/art/writing and digital media that involves practices of cultivating perception, attention, intuition, imagination, and speculative inquiry, for the purposes of psycho-spiritual healing and knowledge-making. They enjoy working with students on developing concepts/ideas, writing process, and interdisciplinary writing, as well as with neurodivergent students.

Pratichi is a 7th year Ph.D Candidate in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is broadly interested in histories of performance, gender and sexuality and colonial law. Her challenges and triumphs as a non-native speaker of English navigating US academia had made her particularly sensitive towards grad students’ struggles in both short and long form of academic writing. While she enjoys working with any form of graduate student writing, her interest mostly lies in grant applications, job materials and brainstorming ideas about early drafting of papers and chapters.

Adrianna is a second-year doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests focus on the intersection of representation, identity-making, and analog games. They take a radical, critical lens to media studies and cultural artifacts in the service of diversity, equity, and inclusion of BIPOC, queer, disabled, and otherwise Othered communities. At the Writing Center, Adrianna organizes and facilitates different projects and collaborations across units, like resource flyers and writing workshops with the Womxn’s Center.