ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Fordham University
Associate Professor of English (2024-present)
Director, Writing Centers at Rose Hill and Lincoln Center(2024-present)

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Associate Professor of English & Communication (2022-2024)
Founding Director, Writing & Multiliteracy Center (2018-2024)

Assistant Professor of English & Communication (2016-2022)
Faculty Director, Writing & Reading Center (2016-2018)

EDUCATION

Ball State University, Muncie, IN 
PhD in English: Rhetoric and Writing, May 2016
Dissertation: “Archives, Access, and Authorial Agency: The Visibility of Digital Inquiry in Writing Center Scholarship”
Committee: Jennifer Grouling (chair), Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Rory Lee, Paul Gestwicki

University of Nevada, Reno
MA in English: Literature, August 2012
Professional Paper: “Reading Shakespeare(s): Pedagogical Approaches to Textual Variants Through Application of Revision Theory”
Committee: James Mardock (chair), Eric Rasmussen, Kevin Stevens

Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
BA in English, magna cum laude, May 2010

PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 18 November 2017.

• Finalist, 2018 International Writing Center Association Outstanding Book Award
• Reviewed in The Writing Center Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2019)

Articles

“Pandemic Administration, Neurodiversity, and Interrogating Writing Center Accessibility.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 47, no. 1, 2023, pp. 34-40.

With Jennifer Grouling, “Colleagues, Classmates, and Friends: Graduate Versus Undergraduate Tutor Identities and Professionalization.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, 2017, pp. 50-60, https://praxisuwc.squarespace.com/grouling-and-buck-142.

“Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter—Oh My!: Assessing the Efficacy of the Rhetorical Composing Situation with FYC Students as Advanced Social Media Practitioners.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 19, no. 3, 2015, http://technorhetoric.net/19.3/praxis/buck/.

Book Chapters

With Josh Botvin, “A Tale of Two Writing Centers: Navigating Fraught Institutional Legacies,” Disruptive Stories: Amplifying Voices from the Writing Center Margins, edited by Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Sohui Lee, and Julie Prebel, Utah State UP, 2024, pp. 49-65.

“From CRLA to For-Credit Course: The New Director’s Guide to Assessing Tutor Education,” How We Teach Writing Tutors: A WLN Digital Edited Collection, edited by Karen G. Johnson and Ted Roggenbuck 2019, https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/wln/dec1/Buck.html.

With Nicki Litherland Baker, “Conducting Programmatic Assessments of Online Writing Instruction: CCCC’s OWI Principles in Practice.” Writing and Composing in the Age of MOOCs, edited by Elizabeth A. Monske and Kristine L. Blair, IGI-Global, 2017, pp. 385-405.

“Slacktivism, Supervision, and #Selfies: Illuminating Social Media Composition Through Reception Theory.” Engaging 21st Century Writers with Social Media, edited by Kendra Bryant, IGI-Global, 2016, pp. 163-178.

“The Average Piece of Junk is Probably More Meaningful than Our Criticism Designating it So”: Reading (Rhetorically) the Restaurant Review in Disney/Pixar’s Ratatouille.” Food on Film: Bringing Something New to the Table, edited by Tom Hertweck, Rowman & Littlefield, 2015, pp. 3-17.

Invited Contributions

Refereed blog post: “On Building (and Leaving) a Multiliteracy Center,” Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Blog Carnival 22: “Digital Literacy, Multimodality, and the Writing Center,” Saurabh Anand and Sarah Fischer, eds., September 2024, https://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/category/conversations/blog-carnival/blog-carnival-22/

Textbook chapter: “Multimodality,” Digitally Mediated Composing and You: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Rhetoric and Writing in an Interconnected World, Stephanie Hedge and Courtney Cox, eds., Kendall Hunt, 2021

Book review: The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors (Caswell, Grutsch McKinney, and Jackson), The Peer Review: A Journal for Writing Center Practitioners, vol. 1, 2017, http://thepeerreview-iwca.org/issues/issue-1/book-review-the-working-lives-of-new-writing-center-directors/. 

Media

At Work with Elisabeth Buck, Inside Fordham (September 2025)

Featured Scholar for UMassD Libraries Open Access Week (October 2022)

Interview with NBC 10 WJAR on TikTok challenges (30th March 2022)

Interview with UMassD College of Arts and Sciences on first book publication (9 April 2018)

Interview with Ball State English department on graduate studies (18 February 2018)

AWARDS AND HONORS

Doctoral Level Excellence in Teaching Award, Ball State University (2015-2016)

Nominee, Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Excellence in Teaching Award (2015-2016)

• Singular nominee selected from all PhD students at Ball State University

Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, Ball State Writing Program (2014)

Ball State Writing Program Research Fellowship (2015)