Sherry Wynn Perdue, Ph.D., is a writing center director, a Writing and Rhetoric faculty member, and an AP English Language and Composition consultant and table leader. In September 2020, she assumed leadership of the International Writing Centers Association, which serves writing center professionals and tutors all over the world. To nurture these endeavors, she earned graduate degrees in English/American Studies (Michigan State University) and Educational Leadership (Oakland University) and attended the School of Criticism and Theory (then at Dartmouth College).
Dr. Wynn Perdue’s publications on evidence-based research in writing centers, the unique needs of dissertation writers, information literacy, and undergraduate research have appeared in The Writing Center Journal, Education Libraries, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and Perspectives in Undergraduate Research and Mentoring. In addition to composing her own scholarship, she has served as Co-editor of The Peer Review, Managing Editor of The Oakland Journal, and Editor of Re-Visions: Journal of the Women's Studies Program at Michigan State University and The Oil Pipeline Monitor. For the last decade, she has maintained WriteSpace, a website devoted to all things AP Lang. She also runs her own editing, ghostwriting, and consulting business.
When not teaching or consulting, Sherry is mentoring researchers, collaborating with high school teachers, or presenting her research at conferences. In her fleeting spare time, she takes long walks with Pike, her Standard Poodle, and composes her memoir, Married on a Monday—7 ½ Years Later—and Other Quirky Tales of an Academic Storyteller.