Empty Spaces that Are Still Full: Reading a Writing Center’s Spaces and Objects through Mediated Dis

Matthew Bryan

University of Central Florida

This presentation combines reflection on and images of a currently empty writing center in-person space to begin to construct a reading of the center setting as it has existed during this year of pandemic. Mediated discourse theory will be introduced to inform this reading, and this theory’s potential as a heuristic for thinking about the spaces and objects of this particular writing center as well as further inquiry will be explored.