BOUTRY KATHERINE

Dr. Katherine Boutry got her PhD in English at Harvard University where she taught for ten years, first as a graduate teaching fellow and then as a lecturer after earning her degree. While at Harvard, she served as Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, advising English Majors and seeing firsthand what made for successful students. She won numerous teaching awards at Harvard and was a Derek Bok Writing Fellow. She first taught writing as a tutor in the Writing Lab at MIT. She got her BA and MA in English at Georgetown University and spent a post-graduate semester at the Sorbonne in Paris. As a graduate student, she had a Fulbright Scholarship to the Czech Republic. Dr. Boutry is also a produced television writer. She has loved teaching the students at West Los Angeles College since 2006 and preparing them for transfer.