I am currently the Director of the Writing and Media Center at Iowa State University. We serve a population of over 33,000 students, staff, faculty, and community members. We are staffed by over forty undergraduate graduate students, ten graduate students, and three professional staff members. Last year, we complete around 6,000 consultations, and serve an additional 2,000 students a year through our workshops, writing groups, writing retreats, and embedded programs.
I consider myself a writing center practitioner and a researcher. Frequently collaborative, my work has been published in WLN, Praxis, Journal of Writing Analytics, Kairos, and WCJ. I was a co-editor and contributor on the recently published Redefining Roles: The Professional, Faculty, and Graduate Consultant’s Guide to Writing Centers by Utah State University Press, and am developing my own book about writing centers tentatively titled Rethinking Writing Centers.
I earned my Ph.D. in English from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. I was most recently the Associate Director of The Writing Center at Michigan State University where, in addition to my administrative duties, I taught graduate composition courses and the peer tutor training course. I have also previously taught professional communication classes at Case Western Reserve University and composition courses at Miami University and Wilberforce University. My teaching pedagogy reflects my commitment to a collaborative learning environment where students enter multiple discourses while engaging with diverse perspectives; furthermore, I encourage students to be lifelong learners and thinkers capable of understanding and creating complex arguments in an increase diverse and connected world.