Tara Prescott-Johnson

Dr. Tara Prescott-Johnson is the Director of the Undergraduate Writing Center and a Continuing Lecturer in Writing Programs, where she has taught a variety of composition, pedagogy, and Honors courses, including English Composition 3DX.

She is a returning Bruin, having earned her B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing at UCLA. She also holds an M.A. from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a Ph.D. in English, specializing in twentieth-century American literature, from Claremont Graduate University (home of the CGU Writing Center, where she worked for six years). Her publications include Streaming The Sandman: Essays on the Netflix Series, Neil Gaiman in the 21st Century, Gender and the Superhero Narrative, Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman, and Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy.

As a Faculty in Residence, Dr. Prescott-Johnson spent 9 years living with students in UCLA’s Residential Communities and won the Robert M. Stevenson Faculty-in-Residence Award three times. Dr. Prescott-Johnson was also honored with UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2022 and enjoys partnering with people across campus to create nerdy, engaging, one-of-a-kind experiences. You can learn more about her hobbies in her TEDxUCLA talk, “Hike Your Own Hike.”