
Tait Bergstrom
Tait is the Director of the Graduate Writing Center. Born and raised in Juneau, Alaska, He received his A.B. in Chinese Language and Literature from Dartmouth College and did his doctoral work in language and literacy at the University of Washington. Before coming to Oregon State University, he taught English and rhetoric and served as the Director of the Writers’ Centre at the National University of Singapore. His research involves interactional sociolinguistics, multlingual literacy, and multimodal communication, and has been published in such journals as Applied Linguistics, TESOL Journal, and Composition Forum. He has also worked in China for an educational materials publisher and created comics for a children’s English language newspaper. He still makes comics with his friends when he can make the time.