As a new graduate student at Northeastern University in the 2010s, I remember attending several professional development workshops on multimodal writing. Touted as a more accessible, creative, and enjoyable approach to teaching writing, the assignments that the speaker shared looked like shadowboxes filled with visual and textual content. I sat with other graduate students and lecturers who taught in the university’s writing program and could hear both the excitement and the fear in the voices of my colleagues as we turned to the Q and A portion of the discussion. What happens if students do not know how to use…
Author: Genie Nicole Giaimo
Genie Nicole Giaimo
Dr. Genie Nicole Giaimo is Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Rhetoric at Hofstra University, where they serve as Writing Center Director. They hold a Ph.D. from Northeastern University. Prior to joining Hofstra, Genie was Assistant Professor at Middlebury College. They have worked in several academic institutions, including a two-year college and a land grant institution. Their current research utilizes quantitative models to answer a range of questions about behaviors and practices in and around writing centers and writing programs. Their research has appeared in Praxis, Writing Center Journal, TPR, Journal of Writing Research, Kairos, Journal of Writing Analytics, Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Composition Studies 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).