Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Learning Centers
Year Started at JMU: 2006
mille4lk@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
Ph.D., Composition and TESOL, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2017
M.A., English, Millersville University, 2006
B.A., English, Eastern Mennonite University, 2003
Professional Focuses
Composition pedagogy, writing center studies, mindset theory, RAD research.
She is the Executive Director of the Learning Centers, where she investigates tutoring efficacy and learning outcomes assessment. She is also interested in students' dispositions and habits of mind, and she conducts research on the impact of writers' mindsets on their writing processes and performance.
Publications
Barrett, R., Kelley, K., Miller, L., & Trybus, M. (2025). Toward a culture of critical A.I. literacies in learning centers. The Learning Assistance Review [Special Edition]: 49-93.
Miller, L. K. (2024). "I'm a bad writer": How students' mindsets influence their writing processes and performances. In S. J. Corbett (Ed.), If at first you don't succeed? Writing, rhetoric, and the question of failure. WAC Clearinghouse.
Malenke, L. B., Miller, L. K., Mabrey, P. E., & Featherstone, J. (2024). How genre-trained tutors affect student writing and perceptions of the writing center. Writing Center Journal, 41(3), 87-106.
Liu, Y., Miller, L. K., & Niu, X. (2023). Incorporating ChatGPT into a financial data science course with Python programming. Advances in Financial Education, 81-104. https://jfedweb.org/issues/AFE/open/AFE2023.pdf#page=83
Schick, K., & Miller, L. (2021). So what? The Writer's Argument (3rd ed.) Oxford UP.
Schick, K., & Miller, L. (2021). So What? The Writer’s Argument with Readings. Oxford UP.
Levanthal, B., Miller, L. K., & Trybus, M. (2021). The SELAP Continuum: How to assess student employee learning and job performance. Assessment Update, 33(3), 14-15.
Miller, L. K. (2020). Can we change their minds? Investigating an embedded tutor's influence on students' mindsets and writing. Writing Center Journal, 38(1/2), 103-123.
Simmons, E., Miller, L. K., Predergast, C., & McGuigan, C. (2020). Is tutoring stressful: Measuring tutors' cortisol levels. WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 44(5/6), 18-25.
Schick, K., & Schubert, L. (2017). So what? The writer’s argument (2nd ed). Oxford UP.
Schick, K., & Schubert, L. (2017). So what? The writer's argument with readings. Oxford UP.
Schick, K., & Schubert, L. (2014). So what? The writer's argument. Oxford UP.
