Praxis: A Writing Center Journal • Vol. 17, No. 2 (2020)

About the Authors

Raneem Bayazeed is a Ph.D. candidate in the Composition and Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include Multimodal composition and Digital Writing. Her current project aims to investigate the effectiveness of Multimodal Composition Pedagogy in EFL contexts. 

Pam Bromley, PhD teaches writing and works with faculty, students, and writing tutors at Scripps College. She currently co-edits The Writing Center Journal, alongside Kara Northway and Eliana Schonberg. Her research explores the ways ideas impact individuals and institutions.

Gissel A. Campos just earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, where she majored in Child Study and minored in Psychology and Spanish. She is a former writing tutor for the Center for Academic Excellence and is currently seeking a position in an early childhood learning center.  

Jeaneen Canfield, MA is a PhD Candidate in English, Rhetoric & Writing Studies at Oklahoma State University seeks to privilege student voices, thus empowering them as thinkers and writers. During her time at OSU, she has been awarded the following selected honors: "Professional Writing Scholarship" (2020), "Clinton C. Keeler Scholarship in English Studies" (2020), "Certificate of Outstanding Achievement in Writing Pedagogy" (2018); and "Excellence in Teaching and/or Consulting Scholarship" (2017). She has a forthcoming chapter "Teach from our Feet and not our Knees: Ethics and Critical Pedagogy" in a Peter Lang edited collection (Ellen Carrillo & Alice Horning, Eds.) and a published article in the 2013-2014 inaugural issue of the South Central Writing Centers Association Newsletter. Her research interests include forms of resistance in the classroom space, visual rhetoric, multimodal composition, digital literacies, and critical pedagogy. 

Sarah E. Gerrish has just earned her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Saint Joseph, where she will continue her studies for her M.A. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. She has been a writing tutor for three years and currently works for Hartford Healthcare as a Resident Service Coordinator. Sarah is passionate about writing and looks forward to a career that incorporates both research and clinical practice.

Amanda M. Greenwell is an Assistant Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, where she specializes in English Education and Young Adult Literature. The former Writing Center Administrator at the University of Saint Joseph, her research interests include Children's and YA literature, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and Writing Center Studies. Her work has appeared in WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship; Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures; and Children's Literature, and she has a piece forthcoming in The African American Review. 

Mary E. Joerg just earned her Bachelor's degree from the University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, where she majored in English and minored in Art History. She is a former writing tutor for the Center for Academic Excellence. Mary is passionate about writing and looks forward to a career that allows her to continue learning and developing in a professional environment. 

Amber Kent-Johnson, PhD is a doctoral candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics. Before becoming a PhD candidate, Amber earned her M.A. in English at Cortland State University of New York, while also working as a Writing Consultant at SUNY Cortland’s Writing Center. She currently teaches both courses of a two-semester First Year Composition program and researches learning style-based pedagogy, multimodal pedagogy, and embodied rhetorics. She has presented her work, “Framing Kinesthetic Learners: The Path to Self-Sufficiency and Self-Awareness” at UTK’s Nexus 2020 Interdisciplinary Conference and was accepted to present “Expanding the Norm: Including Kinesthetic Learners Through Digital Multimodal Assignments” at the 2020 CCCC Annual Convention. She is also a member of the WPA-GO Research Writing Group Committee.  

Renée J. Lavoie is the Interim Center for Academic Excellence Coordinator at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, CT, where she oversees and educates 50 writing and content tutors. A proud alumna of USJ (then Saint Joseph College), she began tutoring as an undergraduate and has since worked in various roles within the tutoring center. She has also served as a classroom teacher and Reading Specialist in CT public schools. Renée is particularly passionate about support for first-year students navigating the adjustment to college learning, tutor development, and literacy's role in the university learning center.

Oksana Moroz, MA has earned her M.A. in English, French, and World Literature in Ukraine. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Composition and Applied Linguistics program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she has also earned her second M.A in TESOL under Fulbright Graduate Student scholarship. Her research interests include digital identities of multilingual students, gender and teacher identities, teaching writing with Wikipedia, and language ideologies.

Havva Zorluel Ozer is a PhD candidate in the Composition and Applied Linguistics program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She currently serves as the co-editor-in-chief for the journal, Inspiring Pedagogical Connections. Her research interests focus on second language writing, translingual pedagogy, and writing center studies.

Sarah M. Patrick has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. She was an undergraduate peer mentor at the university's Writers’ Workshop for two years and has conducted research on the subject of multilingual writers in the writing center.

Andrea Scott, PhD is Associate Professor of Academic Writing and Director of the Writing Center at Pitzer College. She studies writing cultures at small liberal arts colleges and in the international community.

Scrocco, Diana Lin Awad, PhD is an associate professor of English at Youngstown State University where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in professional writing, composition, and pedagogy. Her recent research has appeared in Journal of Argumentation in Context, Communication and Medicine, and Praxis. 

Werner, Courtney L., PhD is an assistant professor of English at Monmouth University, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in digital and multimodal composition, gender studies, linguistics, and writing program administration. Her work has appeared in various collections as well as College Composition and Communication and Computers and Composition, and she is currently studying digital rhetoric in the writing center.

Jing Zhang is a PhD candidate of Composition and Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her doctoral study in the United States, Jing founded and directed the SIS Writing Center at Sun Yat-sen University in China. She is currently the assistant director of the Kathleen Jones White Writing Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Jing has been joyfully advancing her academic pursuit in writing center studies, second language writing, and translingualism.