Updates
- My solo-authored monograph on wellness in higher education contexts has been published!
- I am hard at work on a new project on how life events like aging, illness, and disability impact academic workers/work.
Interviews
September 2023
Book review of Unwell Writing Centers in TPR: The Peer Review Journal.
July 2023
Interviewed by Slow Agency Podcast about book: Unwell Writing Centers.
July 2022
Interviewed, with Dan Lawson, by Pedagogue podcast, about book project on writing program labor and Storying academic work.
October 2021
“Spotlight on the Middlebury Writing Center” SLAC WPA (2021).
October 2021
Interviewed by The Middlebury Campus, "Remote professors tinker with course content and build virtual communities."
July 2021
Interviewed by Slow Agency Podcast about digital book: Wellness and care in writing center work.
May 2020
Interviewed, with Yanar Hashlamon, by WLN, "Writing Center Wellness and Care Work in Turbulent Times."
April 2020
Requested Op-Ed on the Writing Center in The Middlebury Campus newspaper, "What is a Writing Center?"
March 2020
Research featured in Jackson State University Writing Center Research and News updates.
February 2020
Interviewed by The Middlebury Campus, "New Leadership in the Writing Center."
"Giaimo has introduced new training and tutor outreach procedures intended to enhance the peer tutoring experience by formalizing and professionalizing the tutoring staff, broadening the application pool and tracking the effectiveness of tutoring sessions. 'We are working to make the writing center more inclusive and diverse,' she said."
Winter 2019
Featured in "Mentor Stories," Undergraduate Research at The Ohio State University.
November 2019
Featured in "Sharing and Sustaining Writing Center Research: A Cross-Institutional Moonshot," Another Word, from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
April 2019
Featured in Student Spotlight on Sam Turner, OSU Honors and Scholars, for mentorship of Sam Turner, Research Assistant and Assistant Coordinator of OSU Writing Center.
February 2019,
Interviewed by Michaela Corning-Myers, OSU English Communications, on technology use, attention, and wellness.
November 2018
Interviewed by Madalynn Conkle, OSU English Communications, on writing wellness and self-care practices.
April 2018
Interviewed by WLN Blog, Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders, on wellness and self-care in writing center work and my WLN special issue on this topic.
April 2018
Mentioned in My Backyard News, a Boston-Metro newspaper, for mentorship of Danielle Lopez, a 2018 Fulbright recipient.
April 2018
Interviewed by The Ohio State student newspaper, "The Lantern," on the Writing Center's community literacy partnership with Communities in Schools and Columbus Global Academy, a public school in Columbus, OH.
“We really recognized the importance of doing community literacy outreach and that Ohio State ought to have a connection with the local community, ” Dr. Genie Giaimo, Director of the Ohio State Writing Center, said. “This student population really could benefit from ongoing interaction between college students, graduate students and middle and high school students.”
February 2018
Interviewed by Yoga Happiness Podcast, "Mindfulness and Compassion in Writing Center Work."
"Wellness and self-care are intimately bound to being prepared for unanticipated stressors...It's about a whole, robust, multi-valence approach to self-care and preparation for this kind of event (school lock-down). Mindfulness fits into that because of intentionality and an understanding and recognition of being able to sit with your feelings, observe a situation in order to not jump to conclusions, in order to be compassionate, but also to set boundaries. For me, mindfulness is a way in to [understanding and assessing] the day to day stressors that people experience working in a writing center [which] they might not realize they're confronting ...
January 2017
Interviewed by Praxis, "An Interview with Dr. Genie Giaimo" features a conversation about the special issue of Praxis focused on writing centers at community colleges and other two-year institutions that she is guest editing.
"I’ve been a reviewer for Praxis for nearly four years and I have enjoyed watching the journal develop and expand. In part, my idea was to pitch an article on RAD research within a two-year college writing center context, which was in response to a previous interview that I gave with the journal in which I discussed empirical research and my growing preoccupation with writing center methodology and the things that often go unsaid about a study and its method."
Fall 2016
Interviewed by the Writing Across the Curriculum Team at OSU.
Transcript here.
Summer 2015
Interviewed by Praxis. On Community College Writing Center Scholarship and Empirical Research: An Interview with Genie Giaimo.
"While a historic expansion in community college access is on the horizon, there is still too little work done that focuses on the specific needs of that student population, and too little attention paid to those of faculty and staff as well. Genie Giaimo aims to change that, and to find out how, Managing Editor Thomas Spitzer-Hanks sat down with Giaimo recently to talk community colleges, writing centers, and research."
Praxis: A Writing Center Journal is a peer reviewed journal that has been published by the University Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin since Fall 2003.
Book review of Unwell Writing Centers in TPR: The Peer Review Journal.
July 2023
Interviewed by Slow Agency Podcast about book: Unwell Writing Centers.
July 2022
Interviewed, with Dan Lawson, by Pedagogue podcast, about book project on writing program labor and Storying academic work.
October 2021
“Spotlight on the Middlebury Writing Center” SLAC WPA (2021).
October 2021
Interviewed by The Middlebury Campus, "Remote professors tinker with course content and build virtual communities."
July 2021
Interviewed by Slow Agency Podcast about digital book: Wellness and care in writing center work.
May 2020
Interviewed, with Yanar Hashlamon, by WLN, "Writing Center Wellness and Care Work in Turbulent Times."
April 2020
Requested Op-Ed on the Writing Center in The Middlebury Campus newspaper, "What is a Writing Center?"
March 2020
Research featured in Jackson State University Writing Center Research and News updates.
February 2020
Interviewed by The Middlebury Campus, "New Leadership in the Writing Center."
"Giaimo has introduced new training and tutor outreach procedures intended to enhance the peer tutoring experience by formalizing and professionalizing the tutoring staff, broadening the application pool and tracking the effectiveness of tutoring sessions. 'We are working to make the writing center more inclusive and diverse,' she said."
Winter 2019
Featured in "Mentor Stories," Undergraduate Research at The Ohio State University.
November 2019
Featured in "Sharing and Sustaining Writing Center Research: A Cross-Institutional Moonshot," Another Word, from the Writing Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
April 2019
Featured in Student Spotlight on Sam Turner, OSU Honors and Scholars, for mentorship of Sam Turner, Research Assistant and Assistant Coordinator of OSU Writing Center.
February 2019,
Interviewed by Michaela Corning-Myers, OSU English Communications, on technology use, attention, and wellness.
November 2018
Interviewed by Madalynn Conkle, OSU English Communications, on writing wellness and self-care practices.
April 2018
Interviewed by WLN Blog, Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders, on wellness and self-care in writing center work and my WLN special issue on this topic.
April 2018
Mentioned in My Backyard News, a Boston-Metro newspaper, for mentorship of Danielle Lopez, a 2018 Fulbright recipient.
April 2018
Interviewed by The Ohio State student newspaper, "The Lantern," on the Writing Center's community literacy partnership with Communities in Schools and Columbus Global Academy, a public school in Columbus, OH.
“We really recognized the importance of doing community literacy outreach and that Ohio State ought to have a connection with the local community, ” Dr. Genie Giaimo, Director of the Ohio State Writing Center, said. “This student population really could benefit from ongoing interaction between college students, graduate students and middle and high school students.”
February 2018
Interviewed by Yoga Happiness Podcast, "Mindfulness and Compassion in Writing Center Work."
"Wellness and self-care are intimately bound to being prepared for unanticipated stressors...It's about a whole, robust, multi-valence approach to self-care and preparation for this kind of event (school lock-down). Mindfulness fits into that because of intentionality and an understanding and recognition of being able to sit with your feelings, observe a situation in order to not jump to conclusions, in order to be compassionate, but also to set boundaries. For me, mindfulness is a way in to [understanding and assessing] the day to day stressors that people experience working in a writing center [which] they might not realize they're confronting ...
January 2017
Interviewed by Praxis, "An Interview with Dr. Genie Giaimo" features a conversation about the special issue of Praxis focused on writing centers at community colleges and other two-year institutions that she is guest editing.
"I’ve been a reviewer for Praxis for nearly four years and I have enjoyed watching the journal develop and expand. In part, my idea was to pitch an article on RAD research within a two-year college writing center context, which was in response to a previous interview that I gave with the journal in which I discussed empirical research and my growing preoccupation with writing center methodology and the things that often go unsaid about a study and its method."
Fall 2016
Interviewed by the Writing Across the Curriculum Team at OSU.
Transcript here.
Summer 2015
Interviewed by Praxis. On Community College Writing Center Scholarship and Empirical Research: An Interview with Genie Giaimo.
"While a historic expansion in community college access is on the horizon, there is still too little work done that focuses on the specific needs of that student population, and too little attention paid to those of faculty and staff as well. Genie Giaimo aims to change that, and to find out how, Managing Editor Thomas Spitzer-Hanks sat down with Giaimo recently to talk community colleges, writing centers, and research."
Praxis: A Writing Center Journal is a peer reviewed journal that has been published by the University Writing Center at the University of Texas at Austin since Fall 2003.
February 1, 2007
Interviewed Leonard Chang. A Few Questions with Genie Giaimo "Burdened by the conventions of the genre? Quite the opposite. I felt liberated that I could try something that hadn't really been done before, at least not in the way I was attempting. I relished in the opportunity to have my detective Asian American. No, what burdened me in a different sense was every time I saw a new novel being published by an Asian American that was about a young Asian American" Leonard Chang writes, novels, short stories, essays, screenplays and TV. He was a Visiting Distinguished Writer at Mills College, and a faculty member at Antioch University’s MFA Program. He most recently wrote and co-produced FX’s Justified and has a new book, The Lockpicker, scheduled to be published in 2017. |