Rate My Professor Trixie Smith

Smith's research specializations encompass writing center theory and practice, writing across the curriculum (WAC)/writing in the disciplines (WID), writing pedagogy, teacher training, cultural rhetorics, embodiment, queer and feminist rhetorics, community and global engagement. Key publications include co-editing Graduate Writing Across the Disciplines: Identifying, Teaching, and Supporting (WAC Clearinghouse, 2020), The Pop Culture Zone: Writing Critically About Pop Culture, 2nd ed. (Cengage, 2014), and Building Bridges through Writing (Fountainhead Press, 2014). Recent chapters feature “Collaging the Classroom, the Personal, and the Critical: Autoethnographic Writing in the National Writing Project” (Utah State UP, 2021) and “Embodiment, Relationality, and Constellation: A Cultural Rhetorics Story of Doctoral Writing” (WAC Clearinghouse, 2021). She has received the 2025–2026 Charles Carpenter Fries Award from the Michigan Council of Teachers of English and the 2025 Outstanding Service Award from the International Writing Centers Association. Smith has served on the CCCC Executive Committee, boards of IWCA, ECWCA, and MiWCA, and contributes to global writing center development, including invitations to the International Conference on Water in Africa.