About the Authors

Faith Thompson is a doctoral student at Salisbury University. She has been published in Another Word: From the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has forthcoming publications in English Journal and The Peer Review. She is a former graduate writing center tutor but is currently leading a writing group initiative at Salisbury. Her research focuses on antiracist praxis at writing centers, antiracist writing pedagogies, and racial literacy. She uses a critical whiteness framework to inform her studies. 

Matthew Fledderjohann, Ph.D. is the Writing Center Director at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. His published work has appeared in Enculturation, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, and the edited collection Preserving Emotions in Student Writing. His research interests include revision, writing center studies, and apocalyptic rhetoric. Outside of academia, Matthew enjoys building LEGO creations with his children and indoor rock climbing.

Elizabeth Busekrus Blackmon is the Supervisor of the College Writing Center at St. Louis Community College, Meramec campus, in St. Louis, Missouri. In this role, she leads a team of professional writing tutors, conducts workshops for students and faculty, and facilitates the embedded tutoring program for the writing center. She has research interests in the learning commons model and motivation theories within the writing center. Her work has appeared in Journal of Response to Writing, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, The Writing Lab Newsletter, and FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. She is the current treasurer of the Midwest Writing Centers Association board and the founder of the Gateway Writing Centers Association in St. Louis.  

Marilee Brooks-Gillies is an Associate Professor of English and former director of the University Writing Center at IUPUI. She serves on the board of the Cultural Rhetorics Consortium and on the International Writing Centers Association’s Inclusion and Social Justice Task Force. She is past-president of the East Central Writing Centers Association. Her research focuses on rhetorics of belonging with an emphasis on embodied identities and power. Her scholarship appears or is forthcoming in CCC, Praxis, The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, The Peer Review, Enculturation, and several book collections. She is an editor of Graduate Writing Across the Disciplines as well as special issues of Across the Disciplines and Harlot. 

Trixie G. Smith (she/her/hers) is the queer-lesbian-feminist Director of The Writing Center and the Red Cedar Writing Project at Michigan State University, where she is Associate Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures and core faculty in the Center for Gender in Global Context. Her teaching and research are infused with issues of gender and activism even as they revolve around writing center theory and practice, writing across the curriculum, and teacher training. Likewise, these areas often intersect with her interests in pop culture, community engagement, and the idea that we’re just humans learning with/from other humans (you know, with bodies, feelings, lives outside the academy). Her scholarship includes material focused on embodiment, anti-racist, queer, and cultural rhetorics work in the writing center, partnerships in the community, across campus, and across the globe, and support/mentorship of graduate students in the academy.