Acknowledgements
Srividya Natarajan and Emily Pez
We want to acknowledge our gratitude to the many people who made rich contributions to the completion of Thinking About Writing.
We owe more than we can say to Nistangekwe Liz Akiwenzie, who opened up entire worlds of learning, insight, and connection for us. We dedicate this textbook to her.
We are deeply appreciative of the help with Pressbooks and Open Educational Resources given to us by Emily Carlisle, Research and Scholarly Communication Librarian at Western University.
We are grateful to Summer Bressette for guidance with transcribing Anishinaabemowin text in Nistangekwe Liz Akiwenzie’s essay.
We cannot thank our students enough for their enthusiasm, ideas, responsiveness, courage, tolerance of our mistakes, and critical inputs into our pedagogic practice over the years. This collection very much springs from our interactions with them.
We were thrilled to work with the knowledgeable contributors who responded to our Call for Papers. We appreciate their collegiality, promptness, dialogic approach to writing and revising, and patience.
We thank King’s University College, the institution at which both of us teach, for funding support to this project through its Internal Research Grants.
We are grateful to our families and to our circle of friends and colleagues in Writing and Writing Centre Studies for standing beside us, for supporting our work, and for sharing our passions. Thank you, Naveera Ahmed, Josephine Bondi, Valentina Galeano Cardoza, John Drew, Chinelo Ezenwa, Laurie Gibson, Jennifer Ingrey, Megan Jones, Olga Kharytonava, Lisa Kovac, Hanji Lee, Patrick Morley, Ryan Shuvera, and Roman Naghshi for stimulating conversations and shared labour in pursuit of pedagogic ideals.
We presented the ideas and research that led up to this anthology at annual conferences organized by the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing/Association canadienne de rédactologie (CASDW/ACR) and the Canadian Writing Centres Association/association canadienne des centres de rédaction (CWCA/ACCR). We are thankful for these opportunities to connect with colleagues in the field.
Vidya could not have asked for a better, kinder, more resourceful fellow-traveller than Emily. Thank you, Emily, from the bottom of my heart.
Emily would like to express her heartfelt gratitude to Vidya–a brilliant and kind teacher, researcher, artist, change-maker, and friend–who has transformed Emily’s academic and life journey. Thank you so much, Vidya, for this honour of learning from you and of assisting you with editing this textbook.
About the authors
name: Srividya Natarajan
institution: King's University College
Dr. Srividya (Vidya) Natarajan (she/her) teaches Writing and coordinates the Writing Program at King’s University College, London, Canada. Her research focuses on Writing and Writing Center pedagogy in relation to racial, gender, caste, and disability justice. She has co-edited a special section of Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie and a special issue of The Peer Review on changing writing centre commonplaces in response to anti-oppressive frameworks. In her parallel life as a novelist and creative writer, she has authored The Undoing Dance, No Onions nor Garlic, and co-authored A Gardener in the Wasteland, and Bhimayana.
name: Emily Pez
institution: King's University College
Dr. Emily Pez (she/her) loves teaching Writing courses part-time and tutoring at King’s University College, in Deshkan Zibiing territory. She is a European settler-descended speaker of English as a first language, from her mother’s side, with Italian as her second language, from her father. Her work experiences have mainly been with multilingual students, and they are a constant source of inspiration, learning, and joy for Emily.
