Adrienne Tierney

Adrienne Tierney is a Lecturer at the Writing and Communication Center. She also provides writing instruction and support for professionals in biotech and medicine. Before coming to MIT, she taught many graduate and undergraduate classes on writing, psychology, cognitive science, emotion, and human development at Harvard. She has an Ed.D. in human development and education and an Ed.M. in mind, brain, and education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a M.S. in neuroscience from the Sorbonne, and a B.A in neuroscience and science in society from Wesleyan University. Her dissertation research was conducted at Boston Children’s Hospital and examined developmental trajectories in brain and cognitive development of infants at risk for autism. Adrienne’s professional interests are primarily in how writing is a means of developing critical thinking and reasoning skills.