Nancy Jiang is a PhD candidate in the English literature department. She works on medieval literature with a focus on the 14th to 15th century and her current project examines the intersections between literary, religious, and economic practices. Her dissertation—“The Trade of Penance: Confession and Commerce in Late Medieval Literature”— explores how medieval writers and thinkers harnessed the tools and discourses from their ever-expanding commercial culture to interrogate, teach, and re-envision the doctrines of sin and salvation. Nancy has taught classes on Shakespeare, Chaucer, the Bible as Literature, and expository writing. In all her classes, she aims to teach writing as a process of thinking, organization, and revision, rather than as a “final product.” During her time as a Writing Place Fellow, Nancy has loved working with students across all disciplines. Looking over a wide range of materials, from applications to short essays to posters, Nancy aims to help all students develop critical skills in reading sensitively, using evidence effectively, arguing persuasively, and revising meticulously, all for the purpose of improving the writing process.