Bio: Gail E. Hawisher

Gail E. Hawisher is Professor of English and founding Director of the Center for Writing Studies. She has primarily published in literacy and technology studies, and, for the past 15 years, has co-edited the international journal Computers and Composition. Recent work includes Global Literacies and the World Wide Web (Routledge, 2000) and Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies (Utah State University Press, 1999), which won the Distinguished Book Award at Computers and Writing 2000. She and her co-author, Cynthia Selfe, are currently at work on a book-length project titled Literate Lives in the Information Age: Stories from the United States, which uses life history interviews to look at how people have acquired, or not, the literacies of technology during the last twenty-five years. In her everyday work through the Center for Writing Studies and its writing across the curriculum program, she likes to think she's helped to change the culture of teaching on campus, however small that change may be.