Praxis: A Writing Center Journal • Vol. 18, No. 2 (2021)
About the Authors
Courtney Buck is a double major in English and Communication with a Journalism minor at Wittenberg University, class of 2022. She enjoys working in the Writing Center and has presented at the 2019 ECWCA and IWCA-NCPTW conferences with her co-researchers. She also attended the Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Researchers.
María Paz Carvajal Regidor, MA is a PhD candidate in English and Writing Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has earned the IWCA Future Leader Award in 2019. Her research interests include the literacy and language practices of Latinx students; archival historiography; and writing center studies. She co-edited Viva Nuestro Caucus: Rewriting the Forgotten Pages of our Caucus (2019) and has a forthcoming co-authored article in the Writing Center Journal and a chapter in the forthcoming edited collection, Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal and Digital Archives.
Natalie Casabone is a Center for Excellence in Writing Tutor at Florida International University and has a bachelor’s degree from Florida International University. Her research interests include improvements made within the workplace environment, bringing awareness and creating solutions to women’s issues and concerns, and fostering a better communicative and learning environment for intersectional students.
Stephen Kwame Dadugblor, PhD recently received his doctoral degree from the Rhetoric program at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in rhetorical deliberation, cultural rhetorics, and rhetorical genre studies. He has worked as a graduate writing consultant at UT Austin.
Bonnie Devet, PhD is a professor of English at the College of Charleston (South Carolina), directs the CofC Writing Lab. She also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in grammar, technical writing, freshman composition, advanced composition, the theory and practice of writing labs, and the teaching of composition. She has delivered numerous conference presentations and has published widely on the training of consultants as well as on teaching grammar, technical communication, and freshman composition. She is also the recipient of the Southeastern Writing Center Association Achievement Award.
Maggie M. Herb is assistant professor of English and director of the writing center at SUNY Buffalo State College. She teaches courses in writing and English Education and serves as co-director of the Western New York Writing Project. Her research focuses on the institutional positioning of writing centers and labor issues related to writing center workers.
Xuan Jiang, PhD is an Assistant Director at the Center for Excellence in Writing at Florida International University. Her research interests include writing tutors’ professional development, writing tutors’ well-beings and morale at workplace, issues and strategies in academic writing, various instructional scaffoldings, and using transnational literature and dialogues to promote culturally responsive teaching and to develop cultural and communicative competence for all students.
Allison Kranek, MA is a PhD candidate in English and Writing Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has served as Assistant Director for UIUC’s Undergraduate Rhetoric Program and the Writers Workshop. Her research interests include writing center and writing program relationships with residence halls; writing center-sponsored writing groups; and a co-authored study of the affordances of online and face-to-face writing tutoring (forthcoming in the Writing Center Journal). She is currently copyediting an edited collection, Beyond Fitting In: Rethinking First-Gen Writing and Literacy Education (MLA, forthcoming).
Jo Mackiewicz is a professor of rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University. Recently, she published the books The Aboutness of Writing Center Talk and Writing Center Talk over Time. With Isabelle Thompson, she has published a number of articles about writing center discourse, as well as the book Talk about Writing, now in its second edition.
Emily Nolan is an English major and Journalism minor at Wittenberg University, class of 2021. She has presented her analysis of asynchronous eTutoring practices alongside her co-researchers at the 2019 ECWCA writing center conference, the 2019 Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Researchers, and the 2019 IWCA-NCPTW conference.
Lindsay A. Sabatino is Assistant Professor of English and director of the writing center at Wagner College. Her research and pedagogical interests focus on writing center theory and practice, multimodal composition, digital rhetoric, writing tutor education, and faculty development. More specifically, her recent work explores composing in digital environments, the relocation of writing centers into libraries, online tutoring, gaming studies, and writing studio spaces. Along with Dr. Brian Fallon, she is co-editor of Multimodal Composing: Strategies for Twenty-First-Century Writing Consultations. She has also published in Computers and Composition, Praxis, Writing Lab Newsletter, and The Peer Review.
Jamie Spallino is an English major and Women’s Studies minor at Wittenberg University, class of 2021. In addition to tutoring at Wittenberg’s Writing Center, she has presented alongside co-researchers at ECWCA 2019 and IWCA-NCPTW 2019 as well as the Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Researchers in 2019.
Olivia Tracy, MA (she/her/hers) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver, exploring locational ethos and embodied rhetoric in early modern women’s writing. She has worked in DU’s University Writing Center in various roles, including as a consultant and a Summer Graduate Assistant Director. Her writing center research explores how writing center practice can create change across the university, including through faculty and student engagement with assignment prompts and the interactions between bodies, props, and space.