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R.J. Lambert PhDWriting Advisor

R.J. has worked as an NIH grant writer, medical editor, literary editor, legal clerk, and communications consultant. He is also a published poet and has founded two nationally-recognized literary journals. Currently, he is an assistant professor for the writer center at the Medical University of South Carolina.

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R.J. Lambert, PhD, holds writing degrees from the University of Colorado, the University of Texas at Austin, and a doctorate in rhetoric and writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. He has taught English and writing at the college and graduate level throughout the United States and in Beijing, China. He also worked for several years as an administrative coordinator and research coordinator on breast cancer and skin cancer grants at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.

Over the years, R.J. has had a hand in numerous literary publications. He helped co-found a literary journal called Copper Nickel as an undergraduate that has become a major national literary magazine. In graduate school, he similarly co-founded a journal called Bat City Review, which continues as a national literary journal. He has served as a reader or preliminary editor for numerous literary journals over the years, which helps him support other writers and shape the literary culture in the United States.

Currently, R.J. is an assistant professor at the writing center at the Medical University of South Carolina. As an editor for publications as well as for medical grants and manuscripts, R.J. has a strong sense and sensitivity of how to word things in the best way for the intended admissions committee audience. Education has been the most beneficial thing in R.J.’s life in terms of my professional and personal development, and he believes it is a gift to be able to play a small or large role in how education helps my students meet their own life goals.

In terms of future goals, R.J. plans to found and edit yet another literary journal (which would be his third one). He also publishes his own creative and scholarly writing and will continue to publish in his free time. A writing goal unrelated to his career is that he love movies and hopes to someday write a screenplay that is turned into a feature film.

Education

Undergraduate: The University of Colorado
Doctorate: University of Texas at El Paso

Fun Fact

R.J. had a pet raccoon when he was a child. He also swam in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea during a trip to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

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