Honors Program

About the Director

Mary Kay Mulvaney
Director, Elmhurst College Honors Program
Associate Professor of English
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Mulvaney has been director of the Honors Program since August 2004. Within the Program, she teaches Honors-level research and writing, and the course “Search for Humane Values in Literature.” In the English department, she teaches courses ranging from first-year composition to graduate-level rhetorical theory.

Dr. Mulvaney is passionate about teaching.  In 2004, she received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching.  She has also published and presented numerous times on composition and rhetorical theory and on the nature of academic writing. Most recently, she co-authored the college-level textbook Academic Writing: Genres, Samples, and Resources.

Dr. Mulvaney’s current research involves a longitudinal study of Honors Program participants and a discourse analysis of Honors independent research projects.