Praxis: A Writing Center Journal • Vol. 21, No. 2 (2024)
About the Authors
Genie Giaimo is Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Middlebury College, where they serve as the writing center director. Their research has appeared in Praxis, Writing Center Journal, TPR, Journal of Writing Research, Kairos, Journal of Writing Analytics, Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and several other peer reviewed journals in rhetoric and composition. They are the author of Unwell Writing Centers: Searching for Wellness in Neoliberal Educational Institutions and Beyond (2023) and the editor of Wellness and Care in Writing Center Work (2021).
Saurabh Anand holds an MA in TESOL and is an assistant director of the University of Georgia Writing Center, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition Studies in the Department of English. His research interests include autoethnography, writing centers in multilingual contexts, and decolonial writing center pedagogies.
Crystal Bazaldua, M.A., graduated with a master’s degree in English Studies from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and now teaches first-year writing as a lecturer in the UTRGV Writing Program. She is currently a PhD student of Technical Communication & Rhetoric at Texas Tech University.
Tekla Hawkins Tekla Hawkins is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; their research focuses on accessibility and pedagogy.
Randall W. Monty is an associate professor of rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies, and the former associate director of the Writing Center at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His work is at the intersection of political discourse, spatial literacy, and science writing.
Candis Bond is director of the Center for Writing Excellence at Augusta University, where she is also an associate professor of English. Her research interests include dimensions of writing center labor, writing in STEM, WAC/WID, and higher education leadership. She has published scholarship in journals such as Writing Center Journal, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, Praxis, Southern Discourse in the Center, and The Peer Review.
James Donathan Garner is associate director of the Center for Writing Excellence at Augusta University. His research interests include professional development for writing center practitioners, interconnections between writing center and WAC/WID pedagogy, technology in writing instruction, and the history of rhetoric. His work has appeared in Rhetorica and The Journal for the History of Rhetoric..
Grant Eckstein is a professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University where he teaches graduate academic writing and teacher training courses. His research interests include second language reading and writing development and pedagogy, including issues related to first-year composition and writing center praxis. He is the associate editor of Journal of Response to Writing and has published in The Writing Center Journal, The Writing Lab Newsletter, and The Peer Review.
Kate Matthews holds a master’s degree in TESOL from Brigham Young University. She teaches English classes in Utah. Her research interests include second language acquisition and writing with an emphasis on feedback.