About Us

Inas MahfouzInterim Lead Editor

I am an associate professor of language and linguistics at the American University of Kuwait. I am also chair of the English Department where I teach a variety of language courses and academic writing. I am also the regional editor and assistant editor for the CWCAB blog.
I am a corpus linguist by training and both my MA and PhD focused on the analysis of corpora; my PhD dissertation analyzed how micro and macro textual cues can be used to disambiguate polysemous verbs. Working with large corpora made me fascinated with the concept of ‘choice’. I realized that a text is basically a number of choices woven to create some meanings. My current research projects include: (1) meta-discourse markers in academic writing: a cross-cultural study which I started during her fellowship at the Writing center at Dartmouth College in Summer 2017 and (2) the Arab Learner English Corpus (ALEC): a corpus of Freshman writing hosted by the Learner Corpus Association.
Teaching second language writing and examining learners corpora have made me realize multilingual writers bring diverse cultural background to their writing classes which shape how they adopt and apply the guidelines of academic writing.

Allen HoRegional Editor

Dr Allen Ho is the Associate Director and Senior Lecturer at the English Language Teaching Unit (ELTU) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Having served in the tertiary education sector for nearly 20 years, he is an experienced English language instructor, course designer and project coordinator. His professional interests include learning transfer, English Across the Curriculum (EAC), and peer response. Dr Ho has contributed to the ELTU curriculum through designing and coordinating a range of EAP, ESP and EPP courses for Arts, Social Science and Education students in particular, such as Professional Communication for Arts Students and Research Writing in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Currently, he is one of the Co-supervisors of the EAC Project, overseeing around 10 collaborations with content teachers from the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Education. He is also one of the Co-supervisors of the Peer-Tutoring Scheme, fully supporting the recruitment, training and monitoring of peer tutors.

Abigail Villagrán MoraRegional Editor

Abigail Villagrán Mora, Ph.D., is the founding director of UPAEP’s Writing Center in Puebla, México, one of the first centers in the country. She is also a founding member of the Mexican Writing Center Network and a reading mediator for the National Program to Promote Reading (Programa Nacional de Fomento a la Lectura). She has a PhD in Composition and Applied Linguistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include writing center pedagogy as it applies to higher education in the Global South, writing center assessment, writing in English as Means of Instruction (EMI) and in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) learning contexts.

Brenda WambuaRegional Editor

I am the Coordinator of the Writing and Speech Centre at Daystar University, Kenya, a role I have played for more than 10 years. My responsibilities include training peer tutors, keeping records of writing centre visits, creating awareness on the practices of the writing centre, sourcing for reading materials, among others.
I teach academic writing, second language acquisition, reading skills, syntax, sociolinguistics and structure of English to undergraduate students.
My research interests are writing centre scholarship, Applied Linguistics, writing skills, supporting language learners, academic writing, second language acguisition/learning, language teaching, multimodality in the writing classroom and artificial intelligence. My doctoral dissertation, in writing centre scholarship, will shed light on the status of writing centres in Universities in Kenya.

Anna Sophia HabibConsulting Editor

I’m the Associate Director of Composition for Multilingual Writers at George Mason University. I also serve as the English department liaison to Mason’s branch campus in Songdo, South Korea & to INTO Mason’s graduate and undergraduate pathway programs for international students provisionally-admitted to Mason.

I received a BA in English with a concentration in Cultural Studies, and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from George Mason University. My MFA thesis, which I hope to continue working on someday, is titled “A Block from Bliss Street: Growing up as a child of the Lebanese civil war.” I am currently working on a transrhetorical dissertation project that aims to explore and theorize the impact of individual experiences of trauma and displacement on translingual identities and languaging practices.

I served as the Associate Director of the Mason Writing Center for five years until I transitioned to my current position as Associate Director of Composition for Multilingual Writers. My research and publications have focused on the experiences of multilingual writers adapting to the expectations of the U.S. academy, faculty perceptions of writing by multilingual students, and designing writing courses that are attuned to the diverse needs of linguistically-diverse populations.