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Christopher LeCluyse is an associate professor of English and writing center director at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Since college he has pursued professional singing alongside his vocations in teaching and writing center work. He double-majored in English and music performance at Oberlin College and became involved in performing music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque as he completed his PhD in English at the University of Texas at Austin. He performs regularly with his own early music ensemble, Utopia Early Music – Emily Nelson (soprano), Christopher LeCluyse (tenor and frame drum), Shulamit Kleinerman (vielle), and Therese Honey (harp) – as well as the Bay Area Baroque ensemble Magnificat. He has also performed with Voices of Music, the Utah Symphony, Salt Lake Choral Artists, Texas Early Music Project, Istanpitta, La Follia Austin Baroque, and Conspirare. In 2009 he appeared on the Conspirare CD Threshold of Night, nominated for two Grammy Awards.
An ancient at heart, Chris studied bilingualism in medieval English verse in graduate school and now approaches writing center work from the perspectives of ancient and medieval rhetoric and literacy and of translation theory. His teaching centers on academic writing, writing pedagogy, rhetoric, and English linguistics. He is past president of the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association, regional representative to the International Writing Centers Association board, and a reviewer for The Writing Lab Newsletter and Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. More than anything, he appreciates the collaborative, supportive environment cultivated by his colleagues and consultants and feels lucky to work with the kinds of students that are drawn to the writing center.
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