Praxis: A Writing Center Journal • Vol. 18, No. 1 (2020)
About the Authors
Alicia Brazeau, PhD directs the Writing Center at the College of Wooster, where she also teaches courses in composition and writing pedagogy. She began working in writing centers as an undergraduate at Grand Valley State University before earning a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Louisville, where she likewise worked as a consultant and later an assistant director of the writing center there.
J. M. Dembsey has worked in the writing center community since 2010. She was a co-founder of the Online Writing Centers Community and is now Founding President of the Online Writing Centers Association (OWCA). She worked as a Coordinator for Technology and Accessibility for 2 years and currently works in the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Northcentral University, where she coordinates online writing support for the IRB application.
Lauren DiPaula, PhD is an Associate Professor of English and former director of the University Writing Center at Georgia Southwestern State University. She earned her doctorate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and teaches courses on composition, teaching and tutoring writing, literacy, and professional writing. She has published in WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, CEA Critic, and Writing on the Edge. Her research interests include composition pedagogy, writing center pedagogy, disability studies, and conflict transformation.
Tessa Hall is a full-time consultant at the College of Wooster Writing Center where she also teaches Writing Studio and helps develop programming for the undergraduate consultants. She began working in writing centers at the University of Akron while earning her MA in Literature.
Sipai Klein, PhD is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of The Writers’ Studio at Clayton State University. He earned a doctorate from New Mexico State University in Rhetoric and Professional Communication. He teaches courses on writing center education, visual rhetoric and document design, technical communication, and first-year writing. He has published work in Computers and Composition Online, The Writing Center Journal, CEA Critic, and the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship. His research interests include technology and writing instruction, service learning, and writing center pedagogy.
Pam Lieske, PhD is Professor of English at Kent State University at Trumbull. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her teaching and research interests include women’s literature, the history of science and medicine, and professional and first-year writing. At the time this article was written, she was the English Coordinator for her campus.
Havva Zorluel Özer is a Ph.D. candidate in Composition & Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches first-year composition and serves in the Composition & TESOL Association. Her research interests include translingual pedagogy, language ideologies, and writing center scholarship.
Ana Wetzl, PhD is Assistant Professor of English at Kent State University at Trumbull where she specializes in first-year composition, specifically developmental writing. Additionally, she was the English Coordinator for the campus Learning Center for nine years until fall 2020. She holds a Ph.D. in Composition and TESOL from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and her research focuses on the intersection between first and second language writing.