Meet Our Staff

 

The Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing Director

Rebecca Hallman Martini
rebecca.hallmanmartini@uga.edu
Park Hall 66
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Rebecca Hallman Martini

Rebecca Hallman Martini specializes in writing center studies, writing across the disciplines, ethnographic research methods, and composition pedagogy. Her book, Disrupting the Center: A Partnership-Based Approach to Writing in the University (Utah State University Press, 2022), establishes an administrative, strategic partnership model for writing center and writing across the curriculum collaborations. Her work has been published in WPA, Across the Disciplines, Praxis, Computers and Composition, and Research in Online Literacy Education. She is also the founding editor of the International Writing Center Association's newest journal, The Peer Review: A Journal for Writing Center Practitioners.

 

 

 

Coordinator of writing aCross the Curriculum

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L. S. McKee

L.S. (Laura) McKee is Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum. In this role, she teaches in the English department and works with the Writing Intensive Program and the Willis Center for Writing to support programmatic and curricular initiatives, especially those focused on writing pedagogy, STEM writing, and interdisciplinary collaboration. 

 

 

 

 

 

Administrative Team

mounawar@uga.edu
Mounawar Abbouchi

Mounawar Abbouchi (she/her) is a PhD candidate focusing on late medieval literature. Mounawar is from Beirut, Lebanon. In addition to English, she also speaks French, Spanish, and Arabic (her native language). She has over a decade of experience in advanced writing, as well as in teaching college composition, STEM writing, literature, and language. She loves working with writers on any and all writing projects, especially statements of purpose, application materials, dissertation projects, and creative projects.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saurabh Anand
 saurabh.anand@uga.edu
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Saurabh Anand

Born in Delhi, India, Saurabh Anand handles inbound writing center queries. He is a Rhetoric and Composition Ph.D. student specializing in Writing Center Studies in the Department of English at UGA with a background in TESOL. He has extensive experience in tutoring adult multilingual writers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yu.kabina@uga.edu
Yuliia Kabina
Yuliia Kabina is a PhD student at the Department of English with a Graduate Certificate in African American Studies. She serves as location lead at MLC 370, collaborates on administrative projects, and leads a non-fiction writing workshop. She finds working with writers who come to the Center the most rewarding part of her job, as it’s the consultations that prompt and sometimes direct her administrative work and research.
 
Her writing center experiences (Fall 2022-present) and teaching FYW courses (Fall 2023, Summer 2024) defined her research trajectory: developing one’s writing voice through the best practices found in both fields. In addition to implementing these methods in one-on-one sessions, she developed a series of workshops “Write with Jimmy Baldwin,” aimed to foster critical thinking, dialogue, and experimenting with one’s writing in a collaborative and supportive environment of an extracurricular activity.
 
 
Liz Wayson
elizabeth.wayson@uga.edu
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Liz Wayson

Liz Wayson is currently a second-year English PhD student at the University of Georgia concentrating in writing center studies. Before starting her PhD, Liz worked as an Assistant Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia. She earned a BA in English from Brenau University and a MA in Modernity, Literature and Culture at University College Dublin. Her research interests include writing center and writing studies, disability studies, and spatial rhetorics.