Maggie Herb, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Writing Center Director
(716) 878-4849
Campus Address: Butler Library 312
herbmm@buffalostate.edu
Maggie M. Herb is assistant professor of English and the director of Buffalo State’s Writing Center. She teaches courses in English Education and Writing. Prior to joining Buffalo State in 2016, she taught writing in a variety of contexts—both at the high school and college level—and directed the writing centers at both Stetson University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her research focuses on writing center studies, particularly the institutional positioning of writing centers and labor issues related to writing center work, as well as tutor/teacher education. Her work has been published in The Writing Center Journal, Praxis, and several edited collections. She currently serves as co-director of the Western New York Writing Project, which provides professional development and training for local teachers. She holds a Ph.D. in Composition and TESOL and an MA in Teaching English, both from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in journalism from Penn State University.
Katherine Macro, Ph.D.Lecturer
Campus Address: Ketchum 325
macrokj@buffalostate.edu
Dr. Katherine Macro is a full time Lecturer in the English Education program. She teaches courses in Teaching and Evaluating Writing, Ethnic American Minority Literature, Methods of Teaching Language, Literacy, and Culture, Young Adult Literature, Seminar in Student Teaching, Shakespeare for Future Teachers and Student Teacher Supervision as well. Dr. Macro’s research interests include drama in education, arts integration, and embodied pedagogies that build communities of practice, relationships, and opportunities for inquiry based teaching models. Her book, A Symphony of Possibilities: A Handbook for Arts Integration in Secondary English Language Arts (2019) is an edited collection exploring arts based pedagogies. Her work has also been published in English Journal and Research in Drama Education. Dr. Macro was the co-chair for the Commission on Arts and Literacies for 6 years, and remains an active member of this ELATE commission. She is on the board for the Western New York Teacher Center as the Higher Education Representative and in it’s newly established home at Buffalo State as of 2020, Dr. Macro is the Co-Director of the Western New York Writing Project (WNYWP). Before making the shift to Higher education, Dr. Macro taught high school English and theatre and acting classes for 12 years; she was the director of the drama program and developed many elective courses, including Theatre and Acting I and II, and Holocaust Literature. She received a BA in English, and a BFA in Theatre from Niagara University. Dr. Macro went on to University at Buffalo where she earned Masters in Education and a PhD in English Education.
Hilary Lochte, Ph.D.Assistant Professor
(716) 878-5404
Campus Address: Ketchum 308
lochteha@buffalostate.edu
Hilary Lochte is an Assistant Professor at Buffalo State College, in the English Education and Elementary Education departments. She received a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature, a Master’s in Education, and Doctorate in Sociological Foundations of Education all from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research, teaching, and service focus on the needs of youth in today’s urban communities as she provides support for new and practicing teachers to utilize multicultural children’s literature in service of powerful literacy. Dr. Lochte teaches courses in Children’s Literature, Young Adult Literature and Methods of Teaching Language She also supervises student teachers.
She is also Director of the Buffalo Urban Teacher Gradate Residency Program at Buffalo State. This New York Stated funded diversity initiative supports Teaching Assistants and Teacher Aides from the Buffalo Public Schools as they earn MS Ed’s and teacher certification.
Dr. Lochte’s work and research focuses on the current context of teacher education including diversity and equity in schools and in teacher education, and diversity in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Her most recent co-edited book, entitled Teacher Performance Assessment and Accountability Reforms: The Impacts of edTPA on Teaching and Schools (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) was awarded the 2017 Critics Choice Award by the American Educational Studies Association.
She serves on the Board of Trustees for Tapestry Charter School and for the Western New York Network of English Teachers (WNYNET)
Hilary is a proud Buffalo native and resident of the west side.
