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Faculty
Marilee Brooks-Gillies
Title
Director of the Writing Center, Associate Professor of English
Department
English
Contact Info
Biography
Marilee Brooks-Gillies is the Director of the Writing Center and Associate Professor of English at Alma College. She is the editor of the ECWCA Journal and past president of the East Central Writing Centers Association. Her research appears in CCC, Praxis, The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, The Peer Review, enculturation, and several book collections. She is an editor of Graduate Writing Across the Disciplines as well as special issues of Across the Disciplines and Harlot.
My Expertise
Cultural Rhetorics, Writing Centers, Writing Pedagogy and Writing Program Administration.
Recent Work and Accomplishments
Brooks-Gillies, Marilee, and Grace Rosenbarger Moore*. “Negotiating Relationships at the Writing Center: Removing Roadblocks and Building Bridges.” College Composition & Communication, vol. 75, no. 3, Feb. 2024, pp. 558–84. publicationsncte.org, https://doi.org/10.58680/ccc2024753558.
Brooks-Gillies, Marilee, and Trixie Smith. “Everyday Assessment Practices in Writing Centers: A Cultural Rhetorics Approach: Praxis.” Praxis, vol. 21, no. 1, Dec. 2023, https://www.praxisuwc.com/211-brooksgillies-and-smith.
Giaimo, Genie, Nicole I. Caswell, Marilee Brooks-Gillies, Elise Dixon, and Wonderful Faison. “Remaking IWCA: A Call for Sustained Anti-Racist Change.” Writing Centers and Racial Justice, edited by Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison & Deidre Anne Evans Garriott, Utah State University Press, 2023.
Brooks-Gillies, Marilee, Varshini Balaji*, KC Chan-Brose*, and Kelin Hull*. “Listening Across Experiences: A Cultural Rhetorics Approach to Understanding Power Dynamics and Relationality within a University Writing Center.” Have We Arrived? Revisiting and Rethinking Responsibility in Writing Center Work, a special issue of Praxis, 2022, vol. 19, no. 1, https://www.praxisuwc.com/191-brooksgillies-et-al.
*Hull, Kelin and Marilee Brooks-Gillies. “Emotional and Embodied Relationality in Writing Center Administration: Attending to Institutional Status, In-Betweenness, and the (Re)Making of Community.” Emotions and Affect in Writing Centers, edited by Janine Morris and Kelly Anne Concannon, Parlor Press, 2022.
Brooks-Gillies, Marilee. “Embracing Difficult Conversations: Making Anti-Racist and Decolonial Writing Center Programming Visible.” Linguistic Justice on Campus: Pedagogy and Advocacy for Multilingual Students, edited by Eunjeong Lee, Jennifer Johnson, Norah Fahim, and Brooke Schreiber, Multilingual Matters, 2021.
*indicates student co-author