About

Jessica McCaughey, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the University Writing Program at George Washington University (GWU), where she teaches academic and professional writing. She is also the co-Founder and co-CEO of Golden Line Writing Academy, a training and consulting organization designed to improve written communication across all types of workplaces.

For more than a decade, Jessica directed the Workplace Writing Program at GWU. In that role, she created and facilitated writing workshops for teams at a variety of organizations, including Amnesty International, DC United, the US Department of Labor, the FDA, the Democracy Fund, and the American Legion, among many others.

Along with her colleague Brian Fitzpatrick at George Mason University, Jessica co-founded and co-directs the Archive of Workplace Writing Experiences. Jessica’s research focuses primarily on the transfer of writing skills from the academic to the professional realm. Her scholarly work can be seen in Technical Communication Quarterly, Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition; Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and Double Helix, among others.

Her first book is Communicating Across Careers: Writing Transfer and the Experiences that Shape a Professional Life, available from Routledge in September of 2026.

Her creative writing has appeared in publications like The Best American Travel Writing, The Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and the Fine Arts, and The Rumpus, among many others, and she is a Pushcart Prize nominee.

In the spring of 2026, Jessica was selected as a Fulbright Scholar. She taught and researched at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast.

She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and their eight-year-old daughter.