Simpson Undergraduate Writing Fellows
Simpson Fellows provide writing support to undergraduate students in courses in specific disciplines. As advanced majors with strong writing skills, Simpson Fellows are selected to represent and to be ambassadors for their departments. In either one-on-one or group sessions with their peers, they offer oral and written feedback, share disciplinary and writing knowledge, provide guidance on writing assignments, and help students to make their own writing choices. When needed, they can direct their peers to other relevant resources.
Current Writing Fellows
We have twenty Simpson Writing Fellows working in eleven different academic disciplines this year. Learn more about the Fellows for this Academic Year.
Discipline-specific tutoring sessions
Our Writing Fellows support each of the departments or programs noted below. Click here to make an appointment or click on the link below to be directed to the department or program website.
Apply to be a Writing Fellow in your department or program
If you are interested in applying to be a Simpson Writing Fellow, you can apply here. Applications for 2026-2027 are currently open in many departments. For information about the Simpson Undergraduate Writing Fellowship, you can contact David Shawn, Associate Director for Writing in the Disciplines at wid@bu.edu.
Funding for the Simpson Undergraduate Writing Fellowship Program comes from a grant from Psalm 103 Foundation, a special foundation of University Advisory Board member and College Advisory Board member Jennifer Simpson (CAS 2000). The program, initially called Tutoring Writing in the Disciplines (TWID), was piloted in 2018-2022 with grant funding from the Shipley Center for Digital Learning & Innovation and the College of Arts & Sciences. Initially supporting writing in three CAS academic units, the program has now expanded to support more than ten distinct academic units in CAS. Read more about the pilot and its goals, impact, and lessons learned in this TWID Pilot Report .
