Axis: the Praxis blog

What happens when we write? Why do we teach writing the way we do? How does writing education engage with questions of race, gender, accessibility, and cultural difference? How does the writing center function as an interdisciplinary space?

Axis extends the writing center conversation from Praxis, our peer reviewed scholarly journal, into a public forum. Exploratory, experimental, and informative, the blog speaks to questions on the cutting edge of writing center theory and practice. Axis features writing from undergraduate and graduate educators at the University of Texas at Austin, and guest writers from universities across the United States.

In fall of 2020, we published a call from Drs. Romeo García and Anna Sicari for an upcoming special issue of Praxis, Have We Arrived? Revisiting and Rethinking Responsibility in Writing Center Work: The Need for Transformative Listening and Mindfulness of Difference. This call asked writing center professionals to attend to the “haunted” nature of writing centers, marked by a history of regulating and policing spaces and bodies, and with this framework, to explore what responsibility and accountability could look like for writing centers.

We are excited to publish and share this work with our readers. While this special issue was scheduled for a Fall 2021 publication date, this issue will, instead, come out in Spring 2022. We here at Praxis want to thank those who submitted, the reviewers, and of course, Drs. García and Sicari for their work on this important and timely special issue.