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James O'Laughlin
Senior Lecturer, The Writing Program
College Adviser, WCAS
Master, Women's Residential College

MA, Northwestern

Kresge Hall, 2-230
Phone: 847-491-7414
1908 Sheridan Road
Phone: 847-491-8916
j-olaughlin@northwestern.edu

James O’Laughlin is a Weinberg College Adviser and a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program. He received a B.A. in philosophy from Saint Louis University, and an M.A. in English from Northwestern University, and did additional graduate work in English at Northwestern. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1999-2000 from Northwestern’s University College (now the School of Continuing Studies). He writes reviews of literary fiction, literary biography, and philosophy for Booklist, and writes essays and short stories. He is also writing a book on writing and is a fiction editor at StoryQuarterly, a literary journal in its thirtieth year. He teaches Creative Nonfiction, Modes of Writing, Literary Editing, and Intermediate Composition, among other courses, and is currently faculty master at Women's Residential College.

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