Nearly everyone who writes likes—and needs—to talk about [their] writing, preferably to someone who will really listen, who knows how to listen, and knows how to talk about writing too…. A writing center is an institutional response to this need.
-Stephen North, 1984
Writing center experience
Director of the University of Idaho Writing Center, English Faculty, University of Idaho
Rocky Mountain Writing Center Association, Idaho State Representative
Creative Writing Studies Organization, Secretary
Associate Director of the Writing Center, English Faculty, University of Idaho
Associate Director, Writing Center and Writing Fellows Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Midwest Writing Center Association, Vice Chair
Assistant Director, UGA Writing Center, University of Georgia
Graduate Assistant, UGA Writing Center, University of Georgia
Graduate Assistant, Walk-in Writing Service, Cornell University
Peer Tutor, Writing Center, Kenyon College
Research activity
Pulblications
Peer reviewed article:
“‘Don’t Forget to Tell Me That I’m Really Brilliant!!’: Working with Creative Writing and Writers.” WLN, vol 49, no 3, Spring, 2025.
Book chapter:
Perry, Emma Catherine and Paula Rawlins. “Social (justice) media : advocating for multilingual writers in a multimodal world.” Schreiber, Brooke R., et al., editors. Linguistic Justice on Campus : Pedagogy and Advocacy for Multilingual Students. Multilingual Matters, 2022.
Upcoming Conference Presentations and Invited Talks
“Student-Centered, Justice-Oriented: Responding to Creative Writing,” presentation at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, Cleveland, OH, 2026.
“Radical Relations: Creative Writing, University Writing Centers, and Prison Education Initiatives,” panel organized with Miriam Akervall (University of Idaho) and Nick Koenig (University of Cincinnati) for annual Creative Writing Studies Organization meeting, Online, 2025.
“Don’t Get Comfortable: Repositioning Writing Centers Towards Solidarity,” panel organized with University of Idaho graduate students Karissa Chouinard and Gracie Gurr for the joint meeting of the International Writing Centers Association and National Conference for the Peer Tutoring of Writing, Cincinnati, OH, 2025.
“What Are We Responsible For? Boundary Flexibility in Writing Center Spaces,” presentation with Isabel Marlens (Northern New Mexico College) for the joint meeting of the International Writing Centers Association and National Conference for the Peer Tutoring of Writing, Cincinnati, OH, 2025.
Selected recent conference presentations and invited talks
“Teaching Technical Writing in an Engineering Laboratory Course with AI Software,” panel presentation with Dr. Herbert Hess (University of Idaho) and Salsabil Islam (University of Idaho undergraduate student) for the annual Pacific Northwest Section Meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education, Moscow, ID, 2025.
“The Poem at the End of the World: Creative Writing as Emergent Network,” workshop with Isabel Marlens (University of Idaho) and University of Idaho graduate students Alex Connors, Karissa Carmona, and Jason Cahoon for the annual meeting of the International Writing Center Association, Online, 2024
“Splitting the Difference: Re-allocating Writing Center Resources During Expansion,” roundtable with University of Idaho graduate students Tymber Wolf and Spencer Young and undergraduate student Chris LeBlanc for the annual meeting of the International Writing Center Association, Online, 2024
“Asynchronous Feedback: Access and Possibility for Incarcerated Writers,” webinar presented with Miriam Akervall (graduate student, University of Idaho) for the Online Writing Center Association, Online, 2024
“Creative Writing Centers,” roundtable organized with Victoria Rowles, Dylan Reynolds, and Jade Todd (undergraduate students, University of Idaho) for the National Conference for Peer Tutoring of Writing, Tacoma, WA, 2024
“What Can’t AI Do?: Making the Case for Human Tutors in the Age of ChatGPT,” collaborative writing session organized with Jamaica Ritcher (University of Idaho) and Matthew Capdevielle (University of Notre Dame) for the International Writing Centers Association Collaborative, Spokane, WA, 2024
"Feedback Multiverse: Writing Center Visits for Antiracist Creative Writing Pedagogy," paper delivered at the International Writing Centers Association conference in Baltimore, MD, 2023 ABSTRACT
“What would we do without you?: Genealogies of Hope and Harm Reduction in Graduate Student Labor,” roundtable organized with Paula Rawlins (Yale University) and Chanara Andrews-Bickers (graduate student, University of Georgia) for the Conference for College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL 2023
"Work with me: Cultivating Connections in Creative Writing and Writing Center Pedagogy" panel organized with Erika Luckert and Jess Poli (graduate students, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) for the Creative Writing Studies Conference, Online, 2022
“Exploring Linguistic Diversity with Graduate Student Writers,” work-in-progress presentation delivered at the Consortium for Graduate Communication Summer Institute, Online, 2022
“Teaching for Justice for Multilingual Writers: Reimagining Writing Center-Developed Resources,” roundtable presentation with Paula Rawlins (Yale University) at Conference on College Composition and Communication, Online, 2021