Meet Our Staff

Kelsie has her doctorate in Contemporary Curriculum Theory and Instruction: Literacy from Salisbury University. She has her M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publishing from the University of Baltimore and her B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She loves anything related to writing and enjoys helping students realize their writing goals. Kelsie enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, traveling, and going to the beach.

Lauren has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts degree in Composition and Rhetoric from Salisbury University. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Costa Rica 2013-2015), where she taught English in a small community and savored the Pacific sunsets. She enjoys cooking, yoga, traveling, and spending as much time on the beach as possible.

Olivia has a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in Composition and Rhetoric. Her favorite phase of writing is the brainstorming/invention phase because there are so many possibilities to explore. She loves watching Marvel movies with her family, trying new recipes for her weekly meal prepping sprees, and making people smile.

Dr. Melissa Bugdal is an Assistant Professor of English and the Director of the University Writing Center. She has a PhD in English from the University of Connecticut, and loves being back on the Eastern Shore (she got her MA in Composition and Rhetoric from SU)! Dr. B first became interested in writing center work as an undergraduate peer consultant at Wilkes University while also working in a biology lab studying the food behaviors of eastern gray squirrels. As a result of her own interdisciplinary experiences, Dr. B’s work focuses on writing knowledge transfer and writing across the curriculum. When she’s not teaching or in the UWC, Dr. B enjoys being outside, reading, watching sports, and taking her dog Elli along on adventures.

Dr. Beth Towle is an Assistant Professor of English and the Associate Director of the Writing Center at Salisbury University. She received her Ph.D. in English from Purdue University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Towle absolutely loves being in writing centers, and her work focuses on how writing centers fit into larger institutional networks, as well as how writing centers can advocate for marginalized students. When she's not teaching or in the writing center, Dr. Towle reads novels and fan fiction, writes poetry about 19th century Indiana marshland, listens to podcasts, and hangs out with her six-toed cat, Grayson.

Stephanie Davis is the Academic Program Specialist in the Writing Center. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance, and she aspires to one day own her own dance studio. She has a slight obsession with Pinterest and HGTV, wishes she had as much culinary know-how as the Barefoot Contessa, is a firm believer in the Oxford comma, and could watch each I Love Lucy episode a million times and laugh every single time.