Dave Hershinow is the founding Director of The Writing Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY. In addition to directing The Writing Center, Dave also runs The Professional Development Program, a series of zero-credit support courses that focus on academic writing. In Fall ‘26 and Spring ‘27, they will lead their writing faculty in an NEH-funded project that prepares for the formal establishment of a Graduate Writing Program at the GC. As an administrator, researcher, and graduate writing specialist, Dave strives to reform graduate education by centering the role that writing plays in the production and dissemination of academic knowledge. In their direction of a graduate writing center and their development of a graduate writing program, they seek to create institutional units that are both student- and faculty-facing, delivering advanced writing instruction directly to graduate students while also helping disciplinary faculty improve how they teach the writing and research process.

Dave has had faculty appointments in the English Department of Baruch College, CUNY and the Princeton Writing Program. Before that, they served as Director of the Johns Hopkins Writing Center while completing their doctorate. Dave is the author of Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller: Confronting the Cynic Ideal (Edinburgh 2019). They are currently working on a book for graduate students and early career scholars titled Why Write Now: The Theory and Practice of Academic Writing.