Writing Consult Center Faculty

The director and creator of the Writing Consult Center, Martha Montello, is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine with extensive professional training and experience in writing and editing. She holds a Ph.D. in English language and literature from the University of Maryland, where she taught rhetoric and composition, technical and scientific writing, and expository prose over a period of ten years. She has held subsequent faculty positions at Yale Medical School and Harvard Medical School, teaching literature, ethics, and writing. She is the author of numerous publications in professional journals in both medicine and the humanities and the co-editor of Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics (Routledge, 2002). She is a reviewer for five professional journals and serves on the editorial board for four major journals and books series for ethics and medical humanities. Dr. Montello chairs the Pediatrics Ethics Committee, directs and teaches courses in medical ethics, publishes research work in the areas of medical ethics, literature and medicine, and patient-physician relationship.