Unwell Writing Centers

Genie Nicole Giaimo is assistant professor and director of the Writing Center at Middlebury College in Vermont. The author of over two dozen peer reviewed articles and chapters, their work has been published in Praxis, Journal of Writing Research, The Journal of Writing Analytics, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Research in Online Literacy Education, Kairos, Across the Disciplines, The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and several edited collections. They are also the editor of Wellness and Care in Writing Center Work, an open-access digital book with WLN: A Writing Center Journal.

“Contributes significantly to equity-based pedagogy and antiracism work in writing studies, as well as analyses of labor and capital as they manifest in universities more broadly and writing centers in particular. The wide-ranging interdisciplinarity places this project in dialogue with research agendas in fields ranging from education to psychology to critical race and gender studies to labor studies. This book will become a staple of writing studies syllabi and writing center libraries.”—Naomi Silver, University of Michigan  “A needed text, with strengths in experiential knowledge, examples of practical application, and a push for more intentional research designs for writing center research.”—Wonderful Faison, Langston University  “This book is needed now more than ever, given the environmental, political, social, and cultural unrest we are all experiencing. Giaimo’s attention to wellness and care should be required reading for anyone involved in mentoring and teaching writing. They offer a deep analysis of how we came to this situation and concrete strategies and solutions so that we might care for ourselves, each other, our students, and the future of higher education.”—Neal Lerner, Northeastern University