Christina Murphy is the former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. She has served as the President of the National Writing Centers Association and has published widely on writing center issues. Her coedited books on writing centers include Landmark Essays on Writing Centers (1995); Writing Center Perspectives (1995); Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography (1996); The Theory and Criticism of Virtual Texts: An Annotated Bibliography (2001); and The Writing Center Director's Resource Book (2006). She also has published over one hundred articles and book chapters in a range of journals and essay collections. Murphy has served as the editor of two national journals, Composition Studies and Studies in Psychoanalytic Theory, and of the regional journal English in Texas. Her short stories and poems have appeared in over fifty journals and five anthologies, and she has received an Editor’s Choice award and Special Mention for a Pushcart Prize.