Associate Professor of English, Director of the Writing Center
Phone: (503) 370-6276
E-mail: gmoon@willamette.edu
Office: Eaton 215

Grechen Flesher Moon is a member of the English Department and Director of the Writing Center. She got her BA and secondary teaching credential at the University of Oregon and her PhD at UCLA, specializing in Renaissance Drama and medieval and early modern English literatures. Before coming to Willamette in 1999, she taught at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN. (She also did short stints at the University of Utah and at UCLA). Besides World Views, she teaches a number of different writing courses, Shakespeare, and Chaucer. Her current scholarly work is about the history of how Americans have learned to write and taught writing and in the contemporary teaching of writing in liberal arts colleges. But she also has a back-burner project on women's diaries from the overland trail.

She lives in Salem with her husband, Mike, their dogs, Fritz and Jeb, and their cats, Peek and Chee. When she's not reading papers, preparing for classes, or doing other college work, she spends as much time as she can playing the piano. Weekends and summers, if she can get out for a day, she hikes with the dogs, who also run with her every morning.