English Tutors: More Testimonials

 “Dana is a responsible, competent, experienced, and effective teacher, and he is a terrific one-on-one teacher as well as a tutor.”
—Patricia Keeton, Professor of Communication Arts at Ramapo College of New Jersey

“Mr. Dana Crum is a highly talented, mature, insightful and accomplished writer who is among the select group of the most dedicated teachers I have encountered in my own thirty-year career as a college professor. He is a 1996 graduate of our VCU MFA program, and he achieved an outstanding academic record during his studies, and with his writing he also won one of our top fellowships after having been strongly recruited from Princeton University, where his record was similarly remarkable. He has gone on to a remarkable professional career as a caring and responsible teacher, as well as being an exacting editor. An energetic and courageous person, he has consistently achieved remarkable successes, including significant publication of his own writing, and he is someone who has earned my admiration and unstinting support.”
—Gregory Donovan, Professor of Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University

“I am very pleased to recommend Dana Crum as a writing tutor and Adjunct English and Creative Writing professor. I first met Dana in 2013 when I hired him to teach writing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, where I am the Chair of the Liberal Arts Department. In the fall of that year, he taught an Honors English class for us, and in the spring of 2014 he taught a Creative Writing: Poetry course. In both cases, and in all of my dealings with Dana, I found him to be organized, collegial, and smart. As a person and a teacher, he has gentle earnestness about him, which is disarming and makes him immediately likable, but he’s also serious, knowledgeable and attentive to students and their needs. His comments on student papers, which I reviewed as a part of our assessment program, were thorough and useful, and emphasized the positive while also pointing students toward improvements they could make in their writing. The AAC Honors students, who are notoriously demanding, found Dana to be open, inventive, and helpful to them as writers. The students Dana taught in the poetry course also felt truly lucky to have him as an instructor, and noted on the course evaluations that he was analytical, patient, and clearly interested in helping them to be not only better poets, but better writers in general. I was really pleased with Dana’s performance, and the only reason he’s not still teaching for us is because he left the Cincinnati area to pursue other creative and professional opportunities. I can’t say enough good things about him. We miss him. His intelligence, kindness, and imagination all recommend him. I recommend too, wholeheartedly and without reservation.”
—Matt Hart, Associate Professor and Chair of Liberal Arts Department at the Art Academy of Cincinnati

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