Slow Agency

We chatted with Dr. Violeta Molina-Natera to learn about writing centers in Latin America. She is the director of Javeriano Writing Center at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali in Colombia, and former president of Latin American Writing Centers and Programs Association. Violeta was one of the featured speakers at the 2021 IWCA conference this October. Her talk titled " Are ʻtheyʻ really writing...

We invited Dr. Jose Lai and Dr. Allen Ho, who introduced the Peer Tutoring Scheme as part of their English Across the Curriculum effort at the Chinese University of Hong Kong . For those who are in the process of conceptualizing, starting, or implementing WAC/EAC initiatives in your institution, we hope you find this episode inspiring! To learn more about the Peer Tutoring Scheme, check out our la...

We chatted with Dr. Rose Richards, Head of the Writing Lab for Stellenbosch University about the writing center landscape in South Africa. In 2011, she co-edited the book Changing Spaces: Writing Centers and Access to Higher Education and co-authored the introduction titled " Writing Centers as Alternate Pedagogical Spaces" . She’s also contributed to our blog in 2015. We hope you'll enjoy hearing...

We are chatting with the founder and editor-in-chief of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship and the CWCAB blog . Muriel Harris, or as we affectionately call her ‘Mickey’, is the brains and heart behind the journal and the blog. We are excited to have Mickey tell us about the beginnings of the blog and where she sees the writing center field evolving and internationalizing. We hope you'll...

In this episode, we spoke with Bob Yagelski, Director of the Program in Writing and Critical Inquiry and Professor of English Education in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the State University of New York, Albany. Our conversation focuses on writing as a way of being and the power of writing in the moment. We apologize for the sound quality of this episode. For resources and an...

In this episode of Slow Agency , we asked Dr. Laura Greenfield to help us understand radicalism in the writing center space and how the writing center can be a space for resisting power, privilege, and standard language ideology. We hope you'll enjoy our conversation! For more podcast content, follow Slow Agency on Anchor , Apple Podcast ,  Spotify , and Google Podcasts . For a complete list...

In this episode, we spoke with Dr. Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Professor in the Department of English and director of the writing center at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Our dialog focuses on Elizabeth's recent publication, From Great to Good Enough: Recalibrating expectations as WPA in the edited book titled The Things We carry: Strategies for Recognizing and Negotiating Emotional Labor in Wr...

For the third episode of Slow Agency, we talked with Dr. Genie Giamo, Assistant Professor and the Director of the Writing Center at Middlebury College in Vermont and current co-chair of the IWCA Collaborative. Our conversation centers on Genie's editorial work on the most recent WLN Digital Edited Collection titled Wellness and Care in the Writing Center Work . We hope you'll check it out! Click h...

The second half of our conversation with Dr. Asao Inoue centered on Inoue's work on writing centers and antiracist pedadogies. Click here to view a list of resources mentioned in the episode. 

In our second episode of Slow Agency , we spoke with Dr. Asao Inoue, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Equity, and Inclusion in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. Our conversation centered on Inoue's work on labor-based contract grading and the writing classroom. Click here to view a list of resources mentioned in the episode.