DR. TRIXIE SMITH
Director
GALE – Global Alliances in Literacy and Engagement
Trixie G. Smith is a Professor or Rhetoric and Writing at Michigan State University where she is the founding director of GALE: Global Alliances in Literacy and Engagement, which builds on the global engagement work begun over her past 20+ years as a writing center director. She also directs the Red Cedar Writing Project MSU’s site of the National Writing Project which focuses on K- university teachers and the teaching of writing. She is also faculty with the Center for Gender in Global Context.
Her teaching, research, and publications are infused with issues of gender, queerness, and activism even as they revolve around writing centers, writing across the disciplines, global partnerships, and teacher training. These often intersect with her commitments to community engagement, embodiment, supporting graduate writers, and the idea that we’re just humans learning with/from other humans (you know, with bodies, feelings, lives outside the academy). Her work can be seen in College Composition and Communication, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, Writing Center Journal, The Peer Review, Feminist Pedagogies, and numerous edited collections. Her book-length works include Graduate Writing Across the Disciplines: Identifying, Teaching, and Supporting, Building Bridges through Writing, The Pop Culture Zone, and the forthcoming Queer Praxis in the Writing Center: Expanding Intersectional Paradigms. Smith was co-editor of the Fountainhead Press X Series in Professional Development from 2007-2017.
SARAH RUNDLE
Graduate Assistant
MSU Writing and Rhetoric Master’s Program
Sarah Rundle is a master’s student studying rhetoric and writing at MSU. She currently teaches FYW and has worked in writing center spaces since 2019 when she was a community college student. Before coming to MSU, she worked at CSUCI’s Writing and Multiliteracy Center and taught English abroad for a year in Hungary.
BETHANY THIES
Graduate Assistant
MSU Arts, Cultural Management & Museum Studies Master’s Program
Bethany Thies is a Michigan native who comes to the ACM&MS program with master’s degrees in both journalism (MSU) and creative writing (University of Notre Dame) and many years working in corporate communications. A firm believer in life-long learning, Bethany is excited to transition her skill set into helping bring the arts and humanities to all, regardless of age, culture or economic status. Areas of interest include expanding learning experiences through digital humanities and using traditional arts and culture institutions in new and inclusive ways.