Dawn An

About

Dawn graduated with a BA in English and a minor in Comparative Literature from Queens College in Spring 2002. After a long hiatus in her education, she is currently enrolled in the MA program in English at Queens College and hopes to graduate by Spring 2020. Dawn is interested in Composition and Rhetoric Studies and multi-ethnic literature in the United States, especially in the area of Asian American women’s literature. She is working on a research project that focuses on Chinese American immigrant women’s autobiographies/memoirs that emphasize the mother daughter inter-generational dialogue through the craft of storytelling as a way to heal from personal trauma.

In recent years, Dawn has attended both regional and national conferences on tutoring in general and writing tutoring in particular.