Praxis: A Writing Center Journal • Vol. 18, No. 3 (2021)

Hayden Berg is the Assistant Coordinator at the Utah Valley University Writing Center where he's worked as a tutor and a writing fellow for three years. He earned two Bachelor's degrees from Utah Valley University in Philosophy and Behavioral Science. He'll be applying to earn a PhD in Philosophy later this year.

Bruce Bowles Jr., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the University Writing Center at Texas A&M University–Central Texas. His research interests focus on how we evaluate and make judgments across a multitude of contexts including writing assessment, public discourse, and writing center administration. You can find his work in journals such as Composition Studies; enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture; Journal of Response to Writing; and WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.

Marilyn Buono-Magri, Ph.D. is Assistant Director of the Writing Center and adjunct associate professor of writing in the Writing Studies and Rhetoric Department at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. Dr. Buono-Magri received her PhD in Literacy Studies and her MA in English Literature from Hofstra University. Her theoretical framework embraces a sociocultural perspective and relational notions of identity and is consistent with the work of the New London Group (1996) in its emphasis on multimodal social semiotics. Dr. Buono-Magri’s multimodal approach to college writing has produced data that serves to expand the learning process, documents the ways in which student identities shift and change, and supports the disruption of literacy practices that are autonomous and fixed.

Joseph Cheatle, Ph.D. is the Director of the Writing and Media Center at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. He has previously worked as a professional consultant at Case Western Reserve University and graduate consultant at Miami University. His current research projects focus on organization, assessment, and onboarding in writing centers. He has been published in Praxis, Kairos, The Writing Center Journal, and the Journal of College Student Development. As an administrator, he is interested in how to provide professional development opportunities for consultants as well as in how to provide holistic support for student success. He is a current At-Large Representative on the IWCA Board, former member of the ECWCA Board, and former co-leader of the IWCA Collaborative @ 4Cs.

Joseph Chilman, M.F.A. is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hofstra University, where he has also been a writing tutor since 2008. He received his MFA, with a focus in poetry writing, from Hofstra in 2013. In recent years, Joseph has published numerous poems in journals, and has also taught various courses/programs at Hofstra, such as General Creative Writing, Fantastic Fiction, and internships for AMP magazine. 

Jared Featherstone, M.F.A is the Writing Center Director and an Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University. His research focuses on cognition, writing, and mindfulness. He has an MFA in Creative Writing and a BA in Journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park. Jared has completed Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach's Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, and he is a member of the International Mindfulness Meditation Teachers Association. 

Genie Nicole Giaimo, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor and Director of the Writing Center at Middlebury College. She is editor of Wellness and Care in Writing Center Work: A WLN Digital Collection (2021). Along with Yanar Hashlamon, she is the special editor of a WLN special issue on wellness and care in writing center work. Her work has been published in Praxis, Journal of Writing Research, The Journal of Writing Analytics, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Research in Online Literacy Education, Kairos, Across the Disciplines, as well as several edited collections (Utah State University Press, Parlor Press, Emerald). She is current co-president of NEWCA, past vice president of ECWCA, and past co-chair of the IWCA Collaborative @ CCCC. Her current research utilizes quantitative and qualitative models to answer a range of questions about behaviors and practices in and around writing centers and writing programs, such as tutor attitudes towards wellness and self-care practices, students’ perceptions of writing centers, outcomes from STEM-specific writing curricula interventions, as well as the impact of directed self-placement on first-year writers.

Kelsey Hixson-Bowles, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literacies & Composition and the Faculty Director of the Writing Center at Utah Valley University. She has worked in the writing center community since 2010, holding positions on the MAWCA and RMWCA regional boards, serving as graduate co-editor of The Peer Review, and serving as co-chair of the IWCA Summer Institute. Kelsey’s research interests include dispositions’ role in writing transfer, writing center studies, and the intersection of social justice and writing education. She earned her doctorate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Cristian Alejandro Lambaren Sanchez, M.A. is an Academic Specialist – Advisor in the College of Social Science at Michigan State University (MSU). He graduated with a Master of Arts from the Student Affairs Administration program in the College of Education in 2017. Throughout graduate school, Cristian worked as Neighborhood Coordinator for the Writing Center at MSU. Assuming a critical social justice approach, Cristian holds a deep commitment to serving underrepresented student populations, especially first-generation college students, multilingual writers and students from migrant families. Currently, he teaches a Service Learning and Community Engagement course, coordinates internship study away and service learning study abroad programs, and advises undergraduate students in experiential learning opportunities.

Jennifer Marx, M.A. is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing Studies in the Department of Writing Studies and Rhetoric at Hofstra University, where she is a faculty tutor at the Writing Center and where she earned her MA and BA in English and American Literature. She is also an Adjunct Professor of English in the English Department at Adelphi University, and she works as a freelance writer and editor for both web and print publications. She enjoys creative writing, particularly short stories and poetry, as well, and seasonally teaches a creative writing class at the Bryant Library.

Konnor McIntire is an Adjunct Instructor in the Biology Department at Utah Valley University, where he received a B.S. in Exercise Science. He worked as a tutor and writing fellow in the University’s Writing Center for two years. He will pursue a graduate degree in Occupational Therapy later this year.

Christine Modey, Ph.D. directs the Michigan Community Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. From 2015 to 2020, she also directed the Peer Writing Consultant Program at the Sweetland Center for Writing at the University of Michigan and taught courses in the theory and practice of peer writing tutoring, new media writing for nonprofit organizations, and first year composition. She has published articles about university-secondary school writing center partnerships, data visualization and corpus analysis of writing center session notes, and nineteenth-century literature, and has an abiding interest in networks, collaboration, and community building. She is the co-editor with David Schoem and Edward St. John of Teaching the Whole Student: Engaged Learning with Heart, Mind, and Spirit. 

Andrea Rosso Efthymiou, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric and the Writing Center Director at Hofstra University. Andrea chaired the 2017 National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW) and currently serves as NCPTW Treasurer. Andrea’s scholarship has appeared in WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal and various edited collections. Her current research measures the impact of writing center tutors’ extended work beyond tutoring sessions, assessing tutors’ writing center research, conference presentations, and publications.

Tyler Thier, M.F.A. is an Adjunct Professor of Writing Studies at Hofstra University, where he also serves as a faculty tutor in the Writing Center and Special Guest Editor for AMP Magazine. His publications include poetry, film criticism, and scholarly literature, along with performances of his play in Toronto and NYC (so far). His current research involves rhetorical analysis of problematic factions, such as hate groups and authoritarian regimes, and his ongoing interests lie primarily in experimental and revolutionary art. 

Jessica Wallace received a B.A. in English, Writing Studies from Utah Valley University and is currently enrolled in Brigham Young University’s English M.A. program. Her course of study is primarily rooted in the field of rhetoric and composition. She previously worked at the Utah Valley University Writing Center as both a tutor and writing fellow.

Aisha Wilson-Carter, M.F.A. is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Studies in the department of Writing Studies & Rhetoric and a faculty tutor in the writing center at Hofstra University, where she serves on the faculty advisory board for the Center for "Race," Culture & Social Justice and as co-chair of the Black Faculty Council. She is also a lecturer and course co-director for Undergraduate Writing: Readings in Human Rights at Columbia University. Aisha is a doctoral candidate in Administrative Leadership at St. John’s University; her research centers on anti-oppressive education, including issues of organizational culture, equity, access, assessment, anti-bias curriculum, and antiracist pedagogy.