Praxis: A Writing Center Journal • Vol. 20, No. 2 (2023)

About the Authors

Kelle Alden, PhD is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Hortense Parrish Writing Center at The University of Tennessee at Martin.

Kara Poe Alexander, PhD is Professor of English in Professional Writing and Rhetoric and Director of the University Writing Center at Baylor University. She is also the submissions editor for Literacy in Composition Studies. Her work has appeared in College Composition and Communication, College English, Composition Forum, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition, Journal of Business and Technical Writing, Literacy in Composition Studies, Rhetoric Review, Technical Communication Quarterly, and other scholarly journals and edited collections. She also has a co-edited book, Multimodal Composition and Writing Transfer, forthcoming with Utah State University Press.

Erin M. Andersen, PhD is an Associate Professor of Writing in the Business, Media, and Writing department and Director of the Writing Collaboratory at Centenary University where she teaches first-year writing, queer and feminist theory, and tutor training classes. Her current research interests focus on the intersections of writing centers, assemblage theory, assessment, and social justice. Her work has been published in Writing Program Administration, Peitho, and WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.

Pratistha Bhattarai is a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in Literature at Duke University.

Julia Bleakney, PhD is Director of The Writing Center, within the Center for Writing Excellence, and Associate Professor of English at Elon University, North Carolina. Her research focuses on writing center tutor education, student leadership, and writing beyond the university. Her publications include a co-edited book, Writing Beyond the University: Preparing Lifelong Writers for Lifewide Writing as well as articles in The Writing Center Journal, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, and Composition Forum.

Michelle Cohen, PhD is an assistant professor and faculty tutor in the Center for Academic Excellence/Writing Center at the Medical University of South Carolina. She has worked in writing centers since 2010. Her research interests include writing center theory, multimodal composition, and style.

Aaron Colton, PhD is a lecturer in writing studies and the assistant director of the TWP Writing Studio at Duke University. He is currently researching writer’s block both in the classroom and in fictional representations.

Jennifer Smith Daniel, MA is Director of Writing Center and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs at Queens University of Charlotte. Her research focuses on engaged pedagogies, rhetoric and literacy, tutor education, mentorship, and first-year writing. She is currently the chair of the SWCA CARE certification committee. Currently, she is working on a dissertation in which she proposes a method for assessing how tutors’ ecological pedagogies impact their tutoring praxis. She has published in Community Literacy Journal and MacMillan Learning’s Tiny Teaching Stories.

Eun-hae Kim is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Duke University.

Pam Lieske, PhD is a Professor of English at the Trumbull campus of Kent State University at Trumbull where she teaches courses in writing and literature. A former coordinator of English at her campus, she is interested in, among other things, issues related to distance learning and teacher and tutor training.

Amber Manning is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at Duke University.

Mahli Mechenbier, MA & JD teaches Technical Writing, Professional Writing, and College Writing at Kent State University at Geauga as a three-year-renewable Senior Lecturer. She was a member of NCTE’s Committee for Effective Practices for Online Writing Instruction and was an editor for the OWI’s Open Resource (2013 – 2016). Her research focuses on how academic administrations manage distance learning and the intellectual property rights of contingent faculty.

Eliana Schonberg, PhD is an associate professor of the practice in writing studies and the director of the TWP Writing Studio at Duke University. Her current research centers on knowledge transfer in writing centers and writing fellows programs and on changing conceptions of time in writing center studies.

Diana Lin Awad Scrocco, PhD is an associate professor of English at Youngstown State University where she directs the Public and Professional Writing Program and teaches professional writing, composition, and pedagogy. Her recent research has appeared in Programmatic Perspectives, Journal of Argumentation in Context, and Communication and Medicine. She earned a Ph.D. in Literacy, Rhetoric, and Social Practice from Kent State University before collaborating with Joanna Wolfe at Carnegie Mellon University to establish the first communication center on the campus. Address for correspondence: Department of English, Youngstown State University, One University Plaza, Youngstown, OH 44555. Email: dlawadscrocco@ysu.edu.

Ana Wetzl, PhD is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University at Trumbull where she specializes in first-year composition, specifically developmental writing. She was the English Coordinator for the campus Learning Center between 2011 and 2020. Her research focuses on the intersection between first and second language writing and tutoring center work.

Julie Wilson, PhD holds a doctorate in Education from UNC-Chapel Hill and directs the Writing Studio at Warren Wilson College.

Xuanyu Zhou is a first-year clinical epidemiology master's student at Stanford University with an infectious disease concentration.