Biography

Samira (Sami) Grayson earned a B.A. and M.A in English from St. John’s University, and is currently completing her PhD in English with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition from Middle Tennessee State University. Her research interests include writing center studies, writing program administration, spatial rhetorics, feminist historiography, and authorial agency and collaboration. She is currently the chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Feminist Caucus, and serves as a member of the CCCC Research Committee. Before moving to Tennessee, she served as the Assistant Director of Student Success and Coordinator of the Writing Center at Wells College. Her recent work includes an article on Taylor Swift and co-authorship published in Peitho, the peer-reviewed journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition , and a co-authored chapter titled “Dialogic Assessment Agreements: A New Genre For Building Trust and Mitigating Risk in Online Writing Instruction,” published in the edited collection Better Practices: Exploring the Teaching of Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces through WAC Clearinghouse.

Academic Degrees

• B.A. in History and German, Lipscomb University (1999)
• M.A. in Social Studies Education, Wake Forest University (2002)
• M.A. in Foreign Language Teaching, Middle Tennessee State University (2023)