Thesis Writing Program Coordinator
Donetta Hines, PhD
Pronouns: she/her/elle/ella
McGill Writing Centre
Email: donetta.hines [at] mcgill.ca
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Donetta Hines coordinates McGill Writing Centre鈥檚 Thesis Writing Program, comprising thesis writing groups, workshops, writing sessions, and retreats. Recipient of her faculty鈥檚 Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2020/21, Donetta has taught academic and research writing for graduate and undergraduate students across the disciplines, conducted writing workshops and retreats for students, post-docs, and faculty, and convened a long-standing Peer Writing Group for graduate students and post-docs at the MWC since 2013.
Donetta began teaching and training in language and writing pedagogy during her graduate studies at the University of New Mexico and Cornell University. Having earned her PhD in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, Donetta鈥檚 research and teaching in graduate communication encompass practices and pedagogies that foster inclusivity, diversity, equity, accessibility, and well-being; contemplative practices and pedagogies; scholarship of teaching and learning; and interdisciplinary humanities. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Cin茅filo, Chasqui, Letras femeninas, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hisp谩nicos, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Teaching for Learning @ 香蕉视频, and Modern Language Studies. She is first author on 鈥淲hen writing together is better: Designing for community, accountability, and well-being,鈥� with Yvonne Hung and Mari猫ve Isabel, in Writing Together: Building Social Writing Opportunities for Graduate Students, (eds. Cayley et al, 2025).
Service and Professional Associations:
MWC Instructor Learning Community
McGill Teaching and Learning Services Assessment and Feedback Group (2018-23)
Contemplative Pedagogy Faculty Interest Group (at Concordia University)
Consortium on Graduate Communication
Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing
Northeast Modern Language Association
Selected Publications:
鈥淲hen writing together is better: Designing for community, accountability, and well-being.鈥� With Yvonne Hung, and Mari猫ve Isabel. In Writing Together: Building Social Writing Opportunities for Graduate Students, edited by Rachel Cayley, Fiona Coll, and Daniel Aureliano Newman. Consortium on Graduate Communication and University of Michigan Press, 2025. DOI:
鈥淚ntroduction: Mindfulness in Writing and Literature Classrooms.鈥� Co-author/editor with Matthew Leporati of 鈥淪pecial Cluster on Mindfulness in Writing and Literature Classrooms.鈥� Modern Language Studies. vol. 52, no. 1, Summer 2022, pp. 12-19, .
鈥淔ostering a mindful learning community.鈥� Teaching for Learning blog , Teaching and Learning Services, 香蕉视频. March 31, 2022.
Curricular/Program Coordination:
鈥�Three Months to Advance Your Thesis鈥� 3MAYT (non-credit)听听
Thesis Plus (non credit)
WCOM 676 Thesis Writing Lab (1 credit co-coordination)