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Fall 2004 Course:

ENGLISH 505:  Writing Studies I

Areas of Interest:

 
Writing studies; computers and composition; literacy studies; feminism and composition; oral narrative research.

Selected Books:

Literate Lives in the Information Age:  Narratives of Literacy from the United States, co-authored with Cynthia L. Selfe  Mahwah:  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Global Literacies and the World Wide Web, (co-edited with Cynthia L. Selfe). New York: Routledge, 2000.

Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies . (co-edited with Cynthia L. Selfe). Logan and Urbana:  Utah State University Press and NCTE, 1999.

Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History. (co-authored with Paul LeBlanc, Charles Moran, and Cynthia Selfe). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1996.

Co-editor: Computers and Composition, a quarterly journal that features articles examining issues related to the new information technologies and writing.

Work in Progress:

Articles on the new technologies and their significance for writing studies; a study of the relationship between literacy and computer gaming, especially in the lives of young women; and ongoing research on how people here and abroad develop digital literacies.

Curriculum Vitae
Go to Gail Hawisher's Center For Writing Studies Page