People - Oxford Writing Center

Get to know our writing center teams by clicking on the campus location below. Learn all about the director of each center and our fabulous writing consultants!

Oxford
Graduate
DeSoto
Tupelo

Director

Dr. Rachel E. Johnson | she/her
Oxford Writing Center
Lamar Hall, 3rd Floor, Suite C
rejohns3@olemiss.edu

Dr. Johnson is the director of the University of Mississippi’s Oxford Writing Center and a lecturer of composition and rhetoric. Her principal area of pedagogical interest and expertise is the integration of digital media and technology in composition and instruction. She teaches advanced composition and professional writing courses, as well as gender studies as a faculty affiliate for the Sarah Isom Center. Her research draws on writing center pedagogy and practice as well as issues of equity and access in higher education. She is interested in institutional and cultural norms of writing and their effect on student perceptions of identity and ability. She is active in several professional organizations related to writing center practice and scholarship, including the International Writing Center Association and Southeastern Writing Center Association. She currently serves on the Board of the Mississippi Writing Center Association. Her favorite part of her job is getting to know students and helping them realize their potential as writers and professionals. Dr. Johnson is a lifelong Trekkie with a serious nostalgia for alien movies of the ’70s and ’80s. She welcomes any opportunity to discuss science fiction and the history of the horror genre with fellow nerds.

Graduate Assistant Director

Bailey Moorhead | she/her or they/them
PhD candidate, English

Bailey has loved working for the Writing Center for three years because of the opportunities it affords her to interact with the consultants, help students, and solve problems. They love cooking, video games, hiking, animals, spooky stuff, and having too many hobbies. Bailey is currently obsessed with Attack on Titan and dark academia aesthetic, so please bring up either of those topics if you want your ear talked off.