Selected Publications and Projects

Book manuscript under contract

Azima, Rachel, and Katie Levin, Meredith Steck, and Jasmine Kar Tang, editors. The Reluctant Supervisor: Recognizing and Rethinking Power in Writing Center Supervisory Practices. Utah State UP. Under advanced contract as of May 2024.

Refereed journal articles

“Whose Space Is It, Really?: Design Considerations for Writing Center Spaces.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, vol. 19, no. 2, 2022, pp. 51-67.

“‘Starting from Square One’: Results from the Racial Climate Survey of Writing Center Professional Gatherings.” With Kelsey Hixson-Bowles and Neil Simpkins. Forthcoming in The Writing Center Journal, vol. 40, no. 1, 2022.

“Stereotypes or Validation: Lessons Learned from a Partnership Between a Writing Center and a Summer Academic Program for Incoming Students of Color.” The Writing Center Journal, vol. 38, no. 1, 2020, pp. 73-102.

“Promotion, Borrowing, and Caroline Kirkland’s Literary Labors.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 57.4 (2011): 390-426.

“‘Not-the-native’: Self-Transplantation, Ecocriticism, and Postcolonialism in Jamaica Kincaid’s My Garden (Book).”  Postcolonial Studies and Ecocriticism. Spec issue of Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 13.2-14.1 (2006-2007): 101-119.

Other publications

“Easy Output, Empty Impact: The Case for Real Writing.” Blog post on the Center for Transformative Teaching’s AI Exchange (invited). March 2025.

“Questions Around the Ethical Use of AI in the Classroom.” With Amy Ort. Blog post on the Center for Transformative Teaching’s AI Exchange. October 2023. 

“Rethinking Patience.” Blog post on Another Word From the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.February 2016.

“‘Why Are You Working Here?’: Engineers in the Writing Center.”  Blog post on Another Word From the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  March 2014.

Selected Presentations

“Reading the Room: Space, Embodiment, and Promises in the Writing Center.” With Amanda Peterson and Kylie Rowland. Featured panel at the Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 2025.

“Budgets, Constraints, and Scarcity Rhetorics, Oh My! Generating Strategies for Arguing for Abundance in WPA and WCP Work.” With Nicole E. Green. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Spokane, Washington. April 2024.

“When Comfort is Cliché: A Discussion about Productive Discomfort, Access, and Online Appointments.” With Kathleen Dillon and Serenity Dougherty. National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 2023.

“‘Every Pirate Captain Captains Pirates Differently’: Exploring Writing Center Leadership and Staffing Through the Lens of Our Flag Means Death.” With Katie Levin and Neil Simpkins. International Writing Center Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland. October 2023.

“Storying the Multiverse: Narrative Inquiry in Writing Center Research.” With Kelsey Hixson-Bowles and Neil Simpkins. International Writing Center Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland. October 2023.

“Frequent Fliers, Complex Emotions, and Sustainable Labor Practices in the Writing Center.” With Kathleen Dillon and M. Imig. Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference, St. Charles, Missouri. March 2023.

“Hope in Storytelling: Writing Center Research Toward Linguistic Justice.” With Kelsey Hixson-Bowles and Neil Simpkins. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, Illinois. February 2023.

“All Up In Our Feelings: The Often Invisible Emotional and Affective Dimensions of Writing Center Work.” With Nora Harris, Rose Kottwitz, Shannyn McEntee, and Meredith Steck. Midwest Writing Centers Association Virtual Conference [online]. February 2021.

“Crafting Our Conferences: The Racial Climate Survey for Writing Center Professional Gatherings.” With Kelsey Hixson-Bowles and Neil Simpkins. International Writing Centers Association Conference, Columbus, Ohio. October 2019.

“Juggling Roles, Balancing Identities: An Interactive Exploration of WPA Work as Collaborative Performance.” With Nicole Green, Katie McWain, and Molly Ubbesen. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. March 2019.

“Noisy Action From the Writing Center: Becoming Better, Louder Accomplices Through Activist Writing Center Events.” With Katie Levin and Meredith Steck. International Writing Centers Association Collaborative, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. March 2019.

“It’s Not a Moment, It’s a Movement: Examining Everyday Social Justice in Three Writing Centers.” With Bradley Hughes, Neal Lerner, and Visnja Vujin. International Writing Center Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. October 2018.

“Reflecting, Rethinking, and Strategizing Toward the Intersectional Writing Center.” With Katie Levin. International Writing Center Association Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. October 2018.

“Interrogating the Everyday Documents of Writing Centers.” With Bradley Hughes and Rebecca Nowacek. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City, Missouri. March 2018.

“Double Agents: How Educators and Students from Asia can Learn from One Another in the Writing Center and Beyond.” With Ruobing Zhao. International Writing Centers Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois. November 2017.

“Roots, Resistance, and Relationships to Place in the Writing Center.” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment conference, Detroit, Michigan. June 2017.

 “Ways of Being and Knowing: Using Staff Development to Foster Greater Individual and Sociocultural Awareness Among Consultants.” With Nicole Green and Katie McWain. International Writing Centers Association Collaborative, Portland, Oregon. March 2017.

Areas of Interest

Writing Center Studies, especially social justice in the writing center

Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing In the Disciplines

Faculty development

Ecocriticism and Place Studies