Norma Tilden is Assistant Professor of English and also serves as Director of the Georgetown University Writing Center. She is an expert on Writing: Nonfiction Prose (Essay, Creative Nonfiction, Nature Writing, Documentary, Memoir); Narrative and Composition Theory; Writing Pedagogy. Twentieth-Century American Literature: Literary Nonfiction, including New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel; Eco-criticism, theory and practice and poetry.

Tilden earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from New York University and B.A. from Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, Indiana).

Teaching and Research Interests: Writing: Nonfiction Prose (Essay, Creative Nonfiction, Nature Writing, Documentary, Memoir); Narrative and Composition Theory; Writing Pedagogy. Twentieth-Century American Literature: Literary Nonfiction, including New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel; Eco-criticism, theory and practice; poetry

Selected Publications: "Stratigraphies: Writing a Suspect Terrain." Forthcoming in Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 25.1 (2002). "William Kittredge." in American Short-Story Writers Since World War II., The Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol.244. "Learning to Read and Write: Still a Miracle." in Thought & Action: The NEA Higher Education Journal 15.2 (1999), "Word Made Flesh: Richard Rodriguez’s ‘Late Victorians’ as Nativity Story." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 40.4 (1998)

Work in Progress: Lyric Essays from the Land: a book-length, critical study of contemporary nonfiction prose rhetorically and mimetically grounded in the topography of the Western U.S.

Honors, Grants, and Awards: English Department nomination: College Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (1996, 1997, 2000, 2001). English Department competitive research grant: (2000, 2001). Finalist: Oscar M. Ruebhausen Essay Award, The Greenwall Foundation (2001)