Working with Faculty Writers

About the Contributors

Ab out the contributors Anne Ellen Geller is associate professor of English and director of Writing Across the Curriculum in the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John’s University in Queens, New York. Michele Eodice is associate provost for academic engagement and director of the writing center at the University of Oklahoma. Chris Anson is university distinguished professor and director of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University. He has published 15 books and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters and has spoken widely across the United States and in twenty-seven other countries. He is currently chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. For more information, please visit www. ansonica.net. Brian Baldi serves as the organizational lead for the University of Massachusetts Center for Teaching & Faculty Development’s scholarly writing and new chair programming and assists with the Mellon Mutual Mentoring Initiative and other faculty development programs. William P. Banks is director of the University Writing Program and associate professor of rhetoric and writing at East Carolina University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in writing, research, and pedagogy. His published articles on history, rhetoric, pedagogy, writing program administration, and sexuality have appeared in several recent books, as well as in College Composition and Communication, College English, and Computers and Composition. A. Jane Birch is assistant director for faculty development at the Brigham Young University Faculty Center. Since founding the annual semester-long Scholarship Workshop, she has directed the program for fourteen years and sponsored more than 1,200 participants. She loves seeing how passionate the participants are about how much this program increases their scholarly productivity. Robert Boice is Professor Emeritus at SUNY Stony Brook and author of more than 200 journal articles, chapters, and books. He lives in the remote mountains of Western Carolina, where he tries to follow the Buddhist path. In his clinical practice as a writing therapist he has helped hundreds of writers, especially women and underrepresented academics , survive dissertation and tenure rituals. Ann Brunjes received her MA and PhD in English from New York University and is currently associate professor of English at Bridgewater State University. She served as BSU’s founding director of the Office of Teaching and Learning from 2008–2012 and collaborated with BSU colleagues to establish the annual Teacher-Scholar Institute. Lisa Cahill is associate director of Arizona State University’s University Academic Success Programs, which provides writing and subject tutoring, supplemental instruction, peer mentoring, and summer transition programs. With research interests in writing in the disciplines /writing across the curriculum and high school writing centers, she oversees the writing center model across four campuses. Contributors   299 Susan Callaway has a PhD in composition and rhetoric and is associate professor and director of the Center for Writing and of the Faculty Writers Program at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her current research focuses on writing centers and the impact of service learning on writing consultants’ intercultural maturity. Angela Clark-Oates is the course manager for and teaches in the Writers’ Studio in the School of Letters and Sciences at Arizona State University. She is the former coordinator of the ASU Writing Center–Downtown Phoenix campus, where she also designed and implemented ASU’s first online writing tutoring program. Her research is focused on how writing identities are shaped by peers, teachers, and institutions. Manuel Colunga-Garcia works with the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations at Michigan State University. He is interested in the interactions between human and natural systems. His current research is on the impact of global trade on the environment with emphasis on invasive species in terrestrial systems. Michelle Cox, a former WAC director, is now a multilingual specialist at Dartmouth College. She has co-edited several collections, including WAC and Second Language Writers: Research towards Developing Linguistically and Culturally Inclusive Programs and Practices. Her scholarship focuses on writing pedagogy, second-language writing studies, and writing program administration. William Duffy teaches courses in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies at Francis Marion University, where he also serves as assistant director of composition. He primarily studies the overlap between rhetoric and ethics, and his work has appeared in Rhetoric Review, Enculturation, and several edited collections. Violet Dutcher is professor of rhetoric and composition and writing program director at Eastern Mennonite University. Her research interest is in literacy practices, particularly within Amish communities. With the support of the Young Center for Anabaptist and...