My context for developing a multiliteracy center was unique and rather complicated. When I was tasked in fall 2017 with building a new student support center for UMass Dartmouth’s campus, I was prohibited from using the word “writing” in the name of this center. I will not go at length into the reasons for this, as I have had the opportunity to explain via a recent publication (see Botvin & Buck, 2024) but suffice it to say, the name and the purpose of this new center had to be deliberate and well-justified. The perspectives shared in the seminal 2012 Praxis…
Author: Elisabeth Buck
Elisabeth Buck
Elisabeth H. Buck (she/her) is an Associate Professor of English and the director of the writing center at Fordham University in New York City. She is the author of Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies (Palgrave, 2018) which was a finalist for the 2018 International Writing Center Association’s Outstanding Book Award.