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Melissa Pavlik

Director of the Writing Center / Assoc Professor English

“I love working with students new to the American college experience,” says Melissa Pavlik, who has taught writing at North Park since 2005. Pavlik also serves as director of the Writing Center. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and an undergraduate degree in viola performance; she plays alongside her students in university symphony orchestra concerts.

The popularity of her course Self in Other stems from collaboration with guest storytellers from Chicago’s Live Lit scene. Since 2019, Pavlik has taught the same tutor training class offered at North Park to North Park School of Restorative Arts MA in Restorative Justice Ministry candidates housed at Stateville and Logan Correctional Centers.

Pavlik co-edits the bimonthly North Park Theological Seminary’s School of Restorative Arts newsletter Feather Bricks. Other recent publications include Three C’s of Stateville: A Writing Center in Prison in Writing Lab Newsletter: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship and Writing, Incarceration, and Healing in the Writing Center with co-author DeCedrick Walker in The Peer Review.