Praxis: A Writing Center Journal • Vol. 23, No. 3 (2026)

About the Authors

Joel Benabu (PhD) is an experienced writing specialist, researcher, and educator with a doctorate in Shakespeare Studies from the University of Toronto. With more than 15 years of experience working across multiple University of Toronto writing centres, Dr. Benabu has worked extensively with students across a wide range of disciplines and academic programs. In addition to his teaching and consultation work, he has contributed to scholarship in Shakespeare studies, writing pedagogy, and rhetoric through many publications, including a monograph (2023) and articles appearing in a range of academic journals, including Rhetoric Review. His more recent research focuses on writing pedagogy, literacy development, and the evolving relationship between writing and generative AI in higher education.

Corinna Cape is a PhD candidate in English at Fordham University, where she focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century American literature and disability studies.

Uttara Rangarajan is a PhD candidate in English at Fordham University, where she focuses on postcolonial studies and speculative fiction.

David Hershinow is the Founding Director of The Writing Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY. David is the author of Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller: Confronting the Cynic Ideal (Edinburgh UP, 2019). Their scholarship has appeared, or is forthcoming, in WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, Criticism, Modern Philology, Modern Language Notes, and Shakespeare Newsletter.

Kristie Schlauraff is a lecturer in the Program of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University and senior writing consultant at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research considers how epistemological and rhetorical frameworks forged in the nineteenth century continue to influence definitions of embodiment, frustrating efforts to decolonize language, institutions, and knowledge. She has published articles in Literature and Medicine, Victorian Network, Poe Studies, and Literature Compass, and is currently working on a book project on Victorian science and gothic soundscapes.

Daniel Hengel served as a Senior Writing Consultant at The Graduate Center for six years. He is an Assistant Professor at Columbia Greene Community College. Daniel has published articles in Radical Teacher, The D.H. Lawrence Review, Nordic Irish Studies, and The Wellsian. He has article-length works in various stages of the publication process with WLN, College Literature, and Irish Studies Review.

Deborah Philip is a PhD Candidate in Cultural Anthropology and a Graduate Writing Center Fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the politics of home and unhomeliness in colonial and post-colonial Sri Lanka. She is currently a contributing editor at Anthropod, the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s podcast. 

Anna Carroll is a doctoral candidate in the Art History Department at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is working on her dissertation on the spatial and sensorial experience of lay viewers in the 4th–8th century Byzantine Egyptian church. 

Charles Colwell is a PhD candidate in Composition in the Music Department at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His dissertation research explores how local naturalist guides’ vocal-imitative and listening practices configure their knowledge relations with birds at La Selva Research Station in northeastern Costa Rica.

Torre Puckett (PhD) is a Herbert Postdoctoral Fellow and Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where accessibility is central to her practices as a writing instructor and consultant at the Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center. During her graduate studies at the University of Michigan, she was a research fellow managing the access improvement initiative at the Sweetland Center for Writing. In addition to writing center studies, her research also examines disability in horror literature. Her research can be found in the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and she is currently working on a monograph about eugenic themes in horror literature of the fin-de-siècle.

Tess Carichner was a member of the University of Michigan Student Advisory Board from its inception until her undergraduate graduation two and a half years later. Tess graduated with her BSN, with minors in disability studies and global health from the University of Michigan. Her love for writing, the arts, and disability culture led her to create the Accessing Disability Culture Anthology, which features work from 25 disabled University of Michigan students on an open-access digital platform. Tess now practices as a hospice nurse while being a full-time PhD student at University of Michigan, where she studies the relationships of housing, self-determination, and sexual violence victimization risk for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Eli Friedstrom is a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, where they studied neuroscience and cognitive science with concentration in linguistics. While growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio, Eli became a fierce advocate for disability and ensuring positive health outcomes for marginalized communities. In addition to their work with the Sweetland Center for Writing on the Student Advisory Board, they were also a research assistant in the Computational Neurolinguistics Laboratory under Dr. Jonathan Brennan. This upcoming fall they will begin their PharmD program at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Pharmacy, where they are excited to integrate their passions of neuroscience, disability studies, and precision health and mental health care to the evolving field of pharmacy!

Laine Kibler (they/them) is a graduate from the University of Michigan (Class of 2024) with B.A.s in Creative Writing & Literature (Mixed-Genre) and Arts & Ideas (Image/Text). They currently work as an art studio assistant to paper artist Matt Shlian, and also as a desk clerk at Ann Arbor Public Library. Their research and creative projects focus on mental health, OCD, queerness, and other social justice topics. 

Maeve Sundberg Waugh is a recently graduated alumnus from the University of Michigan who double majored in Classical Archaeology and Film Production. She has a passion for disability accessibility in academia, which drew her to the Sweetland Board and its crew of dedicated scholars and activists. She completed an undergraduate thesis investigating the culture of projectile inscription at the ancient site of Olynthos, which received high honors and an undergraduate prize in the UM Classics department. She now attends a master’s program for Classics with Teaching Licensure at Tufts University in Boston, where she hopes to continue studying the ancient world and promoting accessibility in the classroom.

Grace Williams (PhD) is an assistant professor at Lansing Community College. She previously attended Wayne State University where she served as assistant director of the writing center from 2023–2025. 

Amy Latawiec (PhD) is an associate professor of teaching in the English department at Wayne State University. She served as writing center director at Wayne State University from 2022–2025.

Mekenzie McElroy is a PhD student in Florida State University’s English program, specializing in rhetoric and composition. Previously, she earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology, a bachelor’s degree in writing and rhetoric, and a master’s degree in English from the University of Central Florida, where she worked as a writing consultant in the University Writing Center for four years. Her research interests include writing center studies and composition theory and pedagogy.

Kimberly A. Bain (PhD) is an assistant professor and writing center administrator at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Her research focuses on linguistic diversity in writing center work as well as multimodal and service learning pedagogies of first-year writing. She also serves as the current editor of FORUM:Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. Her work has been featured in The Peer Review, Composition Studies, and Composition Forum. 

Emily Jane Pucker (PhD) is an Assistant Professor of English and the Coordinator of Composition at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, GA. Her research centers on writing pedagogy, with special emphasis on writing centers and multilingual writers and writing. Dr. Pucker has over ten years of tutoring experience, including four years as an assistant director with the University of Alabama Writing Center. She resides in Milledgeville with her husband, Dr. Andrew Pucker, and their dogs. 

David Brauer (PhD) is an associate professor of English and serves as the director of the writing center at the University of North Georgia, Dahlonega.