Praxis: A Writing Center Journal • Vol 12, No 1 (2014)
ABOUT THE GUEST EDITORS Russell Carpenter directs the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity and Minor in Applied Creative Thinking at Eastern Kentucky University where he is also Assistant Professor of English. Carpenter recently co-edited The Routledge Reader on Writing Centers and New Media. He serves as President of the Southeastern Writing Center Association. Kevin Dvorak is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Writing Center at Nova Southeastern University. He is the President of the International Writing Centers Association and a past president of the Southeastern Writing Center Association. His book, Creative Approaches to Writing Center Work (Hampton, 2008), won the 2009 IWCA Outstanding Scholarship Award for Best Book/Major Work. He has also published articles in ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors (2004 and 2009), The Writing Center Director’s Resource Manual (2005), and The Successful High School Writing Center (2011), as well as in Praxis and The Writing Center Journal. This is his second time as SI Chair and Leader. This year, Dvorak earned the 2014 SWCA Achievement Award, delivered the keynote address at the Northern California Writing Center Association Conference, and was named Professor of the Year at NSU. Scott Whiddon serves as Writing Center Director at Transylvania University where he is also an Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Communication. He is also the Kentucky state representative to SWCA. In 2010, he earned the Bingham Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. In 2014, he earned an SWCA Christine Cozzens Research Grant. His research interests include writing center work within liberal education, assessment, and course-embedded tutoring programs. Scott is also an active musician with a range of projects, from film score work to session recordings to live performance and curation.