The Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing Director

Rebecca Hallman Martini

Rebecca Hallman Martini is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing. She   specializes in writing center studies, writing across the disciplines, and composition pedagogy. Her book, Disrupting the Center: A Partnership-Based Approach to Writing in the University (Utah State University Press, 2022), won the 2024 Conference on College Composition and Communication's Advancement of Knowledge Award. Her research has been published in WPA, Across the Disciplines, Writing Center Journal, Praxis, Computers and Composition, and Research in Online Literacy Education. Currently, she is working on two book projects that center student writer experiences in writing centers: Centering Writers: Student Perspectives on Inclusivity and Access (under advanced contract with Utah State University Press) and On Their Own Terms: Writer-Informed Approaches to Writing Center Praxis (under advanced contract with Bloomsbury University Press). She is also the founding editor of the International Writing Center Association's newest journal, The Peer Review: A Journal for Writing Center Practitioners and is working to establish writing center partnerships in Germany and Brazil.

Coordinator of writing Across the Curriculum

Laura S. McKee

Laura S. McKee (publications under L.S. 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. 

As a writer and teacher, she is passionate about exploring the connections between STEM and the Humanities, and her own writing explores these topics. She is the author of Creature, Wing, Heart, Machine, winner of the 2022 Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry selected by Tiana Clark. She received her MFA from the University of Maryland and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. 

She has taught at several institutions, including MIT and the University of West Georgia, where she co-directed the STEM-to-STEAM composition program, a first-year writing collaboration between the English Department and the College of Science and Mathematics. 

Currently, she teaches ENGL 3860W: Science Writing for General Audiences, WIPP 7001: Pedagogy of Writing in the Disciplines, and ENGL 1102.

Administrative Team

Mounawar Abbouchi	Tina Borah	Yuliia Kabina
Asna Nusrat	Liz Wayson	Mingxi Xu