Elizabeth Soutter has served as a guest lecturer at Harvard, Tufts, and Boston College, teaching a total of 58 in-person class sections (comprising more than a thousand students) in creative writing, politics, journalism, and English as a second language.
In 2020, during the COVID crisis, she began offering these courses remotely to students at a wide range of levels and abilities from beginners to post-graduate students.
The road to her professorship was paved first with her start as a public affairs intern for NASA’s Johnson Space Center, which led to a position serving as Press Secretary to a Member of Congress.
From there, Ms. Soutter went on to work in all forms of media including radio, television, print, and web; notably having maintained a popular and successful blog with 500,000 followers over nearly a decade.
College Admissions Guidance
A student’s college application should be precisely calibrated to present the best possible picture of the student candidate. Most college admissions counseling is done as a collateral responsibility by guidance counselors with a heavy student load.
Professor Soutter provides individualized college admissions counseling that helps her students 1) identify academic programs that will train the student in the field they are most interested in; 2) understand their “story” — what the complete picture is that they want the program to see; 3) ensure that every element of their application — essays, recommenders, descriptions of activities and interests — is strong evidence in support of that story.
Central to the college application are the student’s written responses. Professor Soutter works with students to think about the essay prompts and craft responses that speak to the heart of who they are and what interests them. Very often it is in working on the essays that students begin to get a clear picture of themselves and what they are seeking in the next stage of their lives.