In this interview, Terry Myers Zawacki, a leading WAC scholar who has been involved in the field since the 1980s, discusses WAC with Marty Townsend, another leading WAC scholar. The interview was conducted February 20, 2026.
About Terry Myers Zawacki
Terry Myers Zawacki Emerita Professor at George Mason University. For decades, she directed the nationally recognized George Mason University Writing Across the Curriculum program and the University Writing Center and co-led university-wide, cross-curricular writing assessment. She is a founding and consulting editor of the book series International Exchanges on the Study of Writing on the WAC Clearinghouse, for which she is also on the Editorial Board. In other service to the profession, she is a founding member of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum, is a co-founder of the WAC Summer Institute, and has played an instrumental role in the development of the English Across the Curriculum movement in Hong Kong. Over the course of her career, she has given invited talks in Hong Kong, mainland China, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, British Columbia, and several European countries. Her publications include five books, including Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life, now available in the Landmark Publications on Writing Studies book series on the WAC Clearinghouse, the WAC Critical Sourcebook, and co-edited books on writing center support for graduate students and on WAC and second language writing. She has also published articles and book chapters on these and other topics, including challenges faced by dissertation writers and supervisors, implications of internationalization for the writing classroom, writing assessment, and feminist approaches to writing.
Credits
Video Production: Mike Palmquist and Zakery R. Muñoz
Closed Caption Editing: Camaryn Wheeler
Additional credits are provided at the end of the video.
