Tawnya (Ravy) Azar is  an Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. She is a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and received her M.A. and PhD. in English at The George Washington University. Azar has been an instructor of composition and literature in higher education since 2009. She currently organizes the Asynchronous Online Writing Instruction professional development for her program. Her edited collection Community Engagement and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Affordances and Challenges of Service Learning in Crisis was published in spring 2025. Her research interests include community engaged teaching, digital composition, multimodal composition, online writing instruction, and issues of access and equity in writing studies. You can follow her work @Mastadon, LinkedIn, GoogleScholar, and ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3627-3230

News/Impact

What Research Has Been Done About Teaching with Wikipedia? 2023

Students Push to Bridge the Digital Divide, Access to Literacy 2021

Seeds of Change: Community Engagement Medallion Recipients and Award Nominees 2021

“Teaching Towards the Future” Composition Faculty Contributions to ITL 2020

NOVA to Host THATCAMP for Community Colleges – May 23, 2016

PhD Candidate Selected for NEH Summer Institute – May 17, 2015

Graduate Student Wins Prestigious Fellowship – March 28, 2013