The Writing Center Team

Dr. Martin Kopf-Giammanco (he/him)
Martin is a coordinator and writing consultant at the Writing Center and holds a PhD in linguistics from Saarland University. While his most recent degree focused on historical semantics, Martin has also studied critical discourse analysis, creative writing, and history, which affords him a versatile approach to guiding students through the writing process. Outside of Saarland University, Martin is the Program Director at the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Saarland. When he finds some free time, he enjoys taking pictures of the city, abandoned industrial sites, and mushrooms.

Dr. Verena Bernardi (she/her)
Dr. Bernardi is an Academic Administrator and Senior Lecturer (Fachrichtungsreferentin) for the English department. She is also the co-founder and coordinator for administration and funding for the Writing Center.

Anne Nußbaum (she/her)
Anne is studying Education (Lehramt) with a focus on English and political science and is particularly interested in policy analysis and cultural studies. She enjoys singing, playing the guitar and bass guitar, and occasionally musical theatre. Anne is the center's trained Peer Tutor, if you would like to make a peer-to-peer appointment with her, click here. In addition to tutoring, she also provides organizational outreach to the student body through social media and digital educational materials.

Danielle Kopf-Giammanco, MA (she/her)
Danielle is currently on maternity leave.
Danielle is the primary writing consultant and the coordinator for the Writing Center, as well as its co-founder (she is also a PhD student in North American Literary & Cultural Studies). Danielle maintains Writing Center operations and creates the educational content on this page with the help of student assistants. Although she works best on academic and scientific writing, Danielle enjoys working with writers in all genres and across disciplines. Her background is in history and medieval studies. Her research interests are historiography, rhetoric, narratology, American cultural history and whiteness studies.

