Praxis: A Writing Center Journal • Vol. 20, No. 1 (2022)

Salena Sampson Anderson, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of English at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana. She has previously served as the Judith L. Beumer Writing Center Director and currently serves as the Graduate TESOL Director. She has published research on language variation, writing assessment, and multilingual writers’ writing center use in journals such as English Studies, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, INTESOL, and WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.

Emma K. Brown, B.S. is currently a graduate student pursuing a degree in Library and Information Science at Syracuse University. She graduated from Keene State College with a B.S. in English Literature. During her time at Keene State College, she worked as a Research & Writing Tutor for three years. 

Red D. Douglas, M.A. (he/him/his) is a PhD student in Higher Education Leadership at Oakland University and serves as a Graduate Assistant for the Oakland University Writing Center. His writing center research is focused on support for student athletes, first generation college students, and graduate writers. He has presented at multiple regional and international conferences, including MiWCA, ECWCA, IWCA, and was named 2020 ECWCA Tutor Leadership Award Honoree.

Megan Keaton, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition and Director of the Writing Center at Pfeiffer University. She teaches first-year writing and upper level composition and rhetoric courses. Her research interests include advocating for faculty-tutor collaborations for disseminating research and exploring the metaphors that writing centers use to identify themselves.

Victoria L. O’Connor, M.A. (she/her/hers) is a PhD candidate in Psychology at Oakland University and served as the Graduate Research Assistant for Oakland University’s Writing Center. Her writing center research explores graduate writers’ issues, strategies, and well-being in addition to the stress faced by both consultants and clients in the online and face-to-face writing appointments. She has been a co-presenter at ECWCA 2019 and co-presented with Dr. Wynn Perdue in her keynote speech at the 2021 Consortium on Graduate Communication’s Summer Institute.

Daisha Oliver, B.A. graduated from Pfeiffer University with a B.A. in Counseling and Human Services. She had been accepted to attend the Masters in Counseling program at Winthrop University before she passed away in July 2021. Her research interests included studying techniques to increase student writers’ confidence and building diversity in the writing center. Daisha is remembered fondly by her teachers and peers, as well as the students whom she helped to find their voices during her tutoring sessions in the writing center.

Molly Parsons, Ph.D. is the Assistant Director of the Center for Research & Writing at Keene State College. After teaching secondary English in Las Vegas, Molly earned her Ph.D. in English and Education at the University of Michigan. She’s a member (aka happy worker bee) of NEWCA’s Steering Committee. Her research interests almost always involve the ethics of writing center praxis and tutor development.  

Sherry Wynn Perdue, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) is Director of the Oakland University Writing Center and the President of the International Writing Centers Association. Her scholarship, which emphasizes dissertation supervision and writing center research, has been honored with an IWCA Outstanding Article Award for her 2012 WCJ article “Theory, Lore, and More,” which she co-authored with Dana Lynn Driscoll. 

Ashley Schoppe, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of English at Pfeiffer University and the Managing Editor of The Burney Journal. She specializes in British Literature of the long eighteenth-century, and her research focuses on intersections between fashion, clothing, and  politics. She is currently working on a book manuscript that analyzes connections between  reactions to the clothing of aristocratic eighteenth-century women and literature of the era.