Department of English 603 West Church Street

Gail E. Hawisher

Department of English 603 West Church Street

University of Illinois Savoy, Illinois 61874

608 South Wright Street Telephone (217) 352-8031

Urbana, IL 61801

education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Ph.D. in Composition Studies. Major areas of study included new writing technologies and their relation to the field of rhetoric and composition. January 1986.

The Ohio State University: Graduate work in Rhetoric, Literature, and Linguistics. 1977-1982.

Augusta College: B.A. in English. June 1970.

experience

Professor Emeritus of English and University Distinguished Scholar/Teacher. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. January 2011-present.

Professor of English and Founding Director of the Center for Writing Studies. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. July 1990-January 2011. (promoted from Associate Professor in 1996)

Assistant Professor of English: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. 1989-1990.

Founding Director: University of Illinois Writing Project (a site of the National Writing Project). 2007-2011.

Assistant Professor of English: Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois. 1986-1989.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English: Project Coordinator for Writing Outreach Program. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. 1985-1986.

Rhetoric Instructor: Planned and implemented a curriculum for using computers to teach writing to advanced first-year college students as part of IBM-EXCEL grant. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Summer 1984-Spring 1985.

University Associate in Rhetoric: Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Fall 1983-Summer 1984. Selected from a national competition.

publications

Books

Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times. Computers and Composition Digital Press (CCDP). (coauthored with Patrick W. Berry and Cynthia L. Selfe). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012. (2013 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award and 2013 CCCC Research Impact Award).

Gaming Lives in the 21st Century: Literate Connections. (coedited with Cynthia L. Selfe). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. (273 pages).

Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States. (coauthored with Cynthia L. Selfe). New York, NY: Routledge, 2004. (259 pages).

Global Literacies and the World Wide Web. (coedited with Cynthia L. Selfe. New York: Routledge, 2000. (299 pages)

Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. (coedited with Cynthia L. Selfe. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999. (452 pages)

Literacy, Technology, and Society: Confronting the Issues. (coedited with Cynthia Selfe). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997. (606 pages). (College Reader)

Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History. (coauthored with Paul LeBlanc, Charles Moran, and Cynthia Selfe). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1996. (363 pages).

Re-Imagining Computers and Composition: Teaching and Research in the Virtual Age. (coedited with Paul LeBlanc) Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992. (222 pages)

Evolving Perspectives on Computers and Composition Studies: Questions for the 1990s. (coedited with Cynthia L. Selfe) Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1991. (383 pages).

On Literacy and Its Teaching: Issues in English Education. (coedited with Anna O. Söter) Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1990. (259 pages).

Critical Perspectives on Computers and Composition Instruction. (coedited with Cynthia Selfe) New York: Columbia University's Teachers College Press, 1989. (231 pages)

Articles

“Methodologies of Peer and Editorial Review: Changing Practices.” (with Cynthia L. Selfe). College Composition and Communication. 63.4 (2012): 672-698.

“Moving Images of Literacy in a Transnational World.” (with Patrick W. Berry, Hannah Kyung Lee, Cynthia L. Selfe, and Synne Skjulstad). Computers and Composition Online, fall 2010.

“Globalism and Multimodality in a Digitized World.” (with Cynthia L. Selfe, Gorjana Kisa and Shafinaz Ahmed). Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. Duke University Press. 10.1 (2010): 55-68.

“The Electronic Landscape of Journal Editing: Computers and Composition as a Scholarly Collective.” (with Kristine Blair and Cynthia Selfe). Profession 2009.

“Globalization and Agency: Designing and Redesigning the Literacies of Cyberspace.” (with Cynthia Selfe, Yi-Huey Guo, and Lu Liu) College English. 68 (July 2006): 619-636.

“Becoming Literate in the Information Age: Cultural Ecologies and the Literacies of Technology.” (with Cynthia Selfe, Brittney Moraski, Melissa Pearson). College Composition and Communication. 55.4 (June 2004): 642-92.

“On Contributing to a Field: The Everyday Work of Editors.” (with Cynthia Selfe). Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. Duke University Press. 4.1 (2004): 9-26.

“Collaborative Configurations: Researching the Literacies of Technology.” (with Cynthia Selfe). Kairos. 7.3 (Fall 2002): http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.3/binder2.html?coverweb/hawisher/index.htm.

“A Historical Look at Electronic Literacy: Implications for the Education of Technical Communicators.” (with Cynthia Selfe). Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 16.3 (July 2002): 231-276.

“Accessing the Virtual Worlds of Cyberspace.” Journal of Electronic Publishing. 6.1 (2000). University of Michigan. http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/06-01/hawisher.html.

“Constructing Identities through Online Images.” JAAL. (March, 2000). http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/jaal/3-00_Column.html

Rpt. in Literacy in the Information Age: Inquiries into Meaning Making with New Technologies. Bertram C. Bruce, ed. Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association, 2003. 128-140.

“Reflections on Research in Computers and Composition Studies at the Century’s End.” (with Cynthia Selfe). The Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 19.4 (1996): 290-304.

Rpt. as lead chapter in Page to Screen: Taking Literacy Into the

Electronic Era. Ilana Snyder, ed. New South Wales, Australia: Allen and

Unwin, 1997. 3-19.

Rpt. in Teaching Literacy Using Information Technology. Joeli Hancock, ed.

Victoria: Australian Literacy Association, 1999. 31-47.

“Writing Across the Curriculum Encounters Asynchronous Learning Networks or WAC Meets Up with ALN.” (with Michael Pemberton) Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks. 1.1 (1997). http:www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/jaln_issue1.htm#hawisher

Rpt. in Communication Across the Curriculum. Donna Reiss,

Richard Selfe, and Art Young, eds. Urbana, IL: National Council of

Teachers of English, 1998. 17-39.

Rpt. in A Guide to Online course Development: The Theory and Practice of Online Learning, Iris K. Stovall, ed. Cairo, Egypt: UNESCO, 2003.

"Researching Electronic Networks." (with Janet Carey Eldred). Written Communication, 12 (July 1995): 330-59.

"Writer/Scholars on the Internet: Two Professional Portraits." (with Charles Moran). Works and Days, 12 (Spring/Fall 1994): 137-55.

"Electronic Mail and the Writing Instructor." (with Charles Moran). College English. 6 (October 1993): 627-43.

"Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives: Computer-Mediated Communication, Electronic Writing Classes and Research." SIGCUE Outlook: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. 21 (Spring 1992): 45-52.

"The Case for Teacher as Researcher in the Electronic Writing Class." (with Michael A. Pemberton). The Writing Instructor 10 (Winter 1991): 77-88.

"The Rhetoric of Technology and the Electronic Writing Class." (with Cynthia L. Selfe). College Composition and Communication. 42 (February 1991): 55-65.

Rpt. Blalock, Glenda. Background Readings for Instructors Using the Bedford Handbook 5th edition.

Rpt. Corbett, E. P. J., Nancy Myers, and Gary Tate, eds. The Writing Teachers’ Sourcebook. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

"Word Processing and the Basic Writer." (with Ron Fortune). Collegiate Microcomputer. 5 (1989): 275-87.

"Computers and Writing: Where's the Research?" English Journal. 78 (1989): 89-92.

"The Computer Daybook: A Multifaceted Tool." English Journal. 77 (1988): 71-74.

"Research Update: Writing and Word Processing." Computers and Composition. 5 (1988): 7-27.

"The Effects of Word Processing on the Revision Strategies of College Students." Research in the Teaching of English. 21 (1987): 145-59.

"Studies in Word Processing." Computers and Composition. 4 (1986): 6-31.

"Collaborative Writing: A Successful Strategy for Computer-Assisted Instruction." (with Gary D. Schmidt). Illinois English Bulletin. 73 (1985): 28-35.

Book Chapters

“Beyond Literate Lives: Collaboration, Literacy Narratives, Transnational Connections, and Digital Media.” (forthcoming). (with Cynthia L. Selfe). Ed. John Duffy et al. Literacy, Economy, and Power: Essays in Honor of Deborah Brandt. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 297-320.

“Mapping Transnational Literate Lives: Narratives, Languages, and Histories of Place.” (with Amber M. Buck). Ed. H. Louis Ulman, Cynthia L. Selfe, Scott DeWitt. Stories that Speak to Us. Logan, Utah: Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2013. (CCDP: an imprint of Utah State University Press.)

“Studying Literacy in Digital Contexts.” (with Cynthia Selfe). Ed. Kelly Ritter and Paul Matsuda. Defining Composition Studies: Research, Scholarship, and Inquiry for the Twenty-First Century. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2012. 188-199.

“Exceeding the Bounds of the Interview: Feminism, Mediation, Narrative, and Conversations about Digital Literacies.” (with Cynthia L. Selfe). Ed. Mary Sheridan and Lee Nickosen. New Directions in Writing Studies Research. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012. 36-50.

"Globalization, Guanxi, and Agency: Designing and Re-designing the Literacies of Cyberspace." with Cynthia L. Selfe, Yi-Huey Guo and Lu Liu. Eds. Bruce Horner, Min-Zhan Lu, and Paul Kei Matsuda. Cross-Language Relations in Composition. Carbondale: SIU Press, 2010. 80-114.

“Sustaining Scholarly Efforts: The Challenge of Digital Media.” (with Cynthia L. Selfe and Patrick W. Berry). Technological Ecologies and Sustainability. Eds. Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Heidi A. McKee, and Richard (Dickie) Selfe. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital P/Utah State UP, 2009. Web. [30 May 2009]. <http://ccdigitalpress.org/ebooks-and-projects/tes>.

“Women and the Global Ecology of Digital Literacies.” (with Cynthia Selfe, Kate Coffield, and Safia El-Wakil). Women and Literacy: Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century. Ed. Beth Daniell and Peter Mortensen. Mahwah: Erlbaum, 2007. 207-228.

“On Computers and Writing.” (with Cynthia Selfe). The Sage Handbook of E-Learning Research. Ed. Richard Andrews and Caroline Haythornthwaite. Los Angeles: Sage, 2007. 73-96.

“Literacies and the Complexity of the Global Digital Divide.” (with Cynthia Selfe, Oladipupo Lashore, and Pengfei Song). Writing and Digital Media. Ed. Luuk Van Waes, Marielle Leyten, and Chris Neuwirth. Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006. 253-85.

Rpt. Miller, Susan, ed. The Norton Book of Composition Studies. New York: W.W.Norton, 2009.

“The Cultural Ecology of Race and Technology.” (with Cynthia Selfe and Nichole Brown). Social Change in Diverse Teaching Contexts. Ed. Nancy Barron, Nancy Grimm, and Sibylle Gruber. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. 201-29.

“Compromising Women: Teaching Composition Online and at a Distance in the United States.” Agents of Change: Virtuality, Gender, and the Challenge to the Traditional University. Ed. Gabrielle Kreutzner and Heidi Schelhowe. Opladen, Germany: Leske + Budrich, 2003. 57-72.

“Feminist Cyborgs Live on the World Wide Web.”(with Patricia Sullivan). Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media. Ed. Mary E. Hocks and Michelle R. Kendrick. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003. 219-235.

“Teaching Writing At a Distance? What’s Gender Got to Do With It?” (with Cynthia Selfe). Teaching Writing With Computers. Ed. Pamela Takayoshi and Brian Huot. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 128-149.

“Stasis and Change: The Role of Independent Writing Programs and the Dynamic Nature of Literacy.” (with Cynthia Selfe and Patricia Ericsson) A Field of Dreams. Ed. Peggy O’Neill, Angela Crow, and Larry Burton. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2002. 268-278.

“The Virtual Neighborhoods of Cyberspace.” Information—Communication Technology and Literacy: The International Experience. Ed. Dimitris Koutsogiannis. Thessaloniki: Center for the Greek Language, 2001. 49-62; 63-74.

“Dispatches from the Middle Wor(l)ds of Computers and Composition: Experimenting with Writing and Visualizing the Future.” (with Cynthia Selfe). New Worlds, New Words: Exploring Pathways for Writing about and in Electronic Spaces. Ed. John Barber and Dene Grigar. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2001. 185-209

“Hybrid and Transgressive Literacy Practices on the Web.” (with Cynthia Selfe). Global Literacies and the World Wide Web. Ed. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. New York: Routledge, 2000. 277-289.

“Fleeting Images: Women Visually Writing the Web.” (with Patricia Sullivan). Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies. Ed. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1999. 268-291.

"Women on the Networks: Searching for E-Spaces of Their Own." (with Patricia Sullivan). Feminism and Composition: In Other Words. Ed. Susan Jarratt and Lynn Worsham. New York: MLA, 1998. 172-197.

"Collaborative Computer Encounters: Teaching Ourselves, Teaching Our Students." (with Cynthia Selfe). Reflective Stories: Becoming Teachers of College English. Ed. H. Thomas McCracken, and Richard L. Larson, with Judith Entes. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1998. 333-346.

"Research and WAC Evaluation: An In-Progress Reflection." (with Paul Prior, Sibylle Gruber, Nicole MacLaughlin). WAC and Program Assessment: Diverse Methods of Evaluating Writing Across the Curriculum Programs. Ed. Brian Huot and Kathleen Yancey. Greenwich, CT: Ablex, 1998. 185-216.

“Responding to Writing On-Line.” (with Charles Moran) Writing and Response. Mary Dean and Peter Elbow, eds. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. 115-25.

“The Rhetorics and Languages of Electronic Mail.” (with Charles Moran) Page to Screen: Taking Literacy Into the Electronic Era. Ilana Snyder, ed. New South Wales, Australia: Allen and Unwin, 1997. 80-101.

“A Scholarly Contribution and More: The Edited Collection.” (with Cynthia Selfe) Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Gary Olson and Todd Taylor. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997. 103-119.

“Wedding the Technologies of Writing Portfolios and Computers: The Challenges of Electronic Classrooms.” (with Cynthia Selfe). Portfolios for Learning and for Writing. Ed. Kathleen Yancey and Irwin Weiser. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1997. 305-321.

"Blinding Insights: Software, Literacy, and the Electronic Writing Class." Literacy and Computers. Ed. Cynthia Selfe and Susan Hilligoss. New York: MLA, 1994. 37-55.

"Tradition and Change in Computer-Supported Writing Environments." (with Cynthia Selfe). Teachers and Change: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives. Ed. Phyllis Kahaney, Joseph Janangelo, and Linda Perry. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1993. 155-86.

"Re-Imagining Change: Computers, Writing Classes, and American Schooling." (with Cynthia Selfe). Teleteaching: Proceedings of the International Federation for Information Processing. Ed. Gordon Davies and Brian Samways. North Holland: Elsevier, 1993. 353-360.

"Integrating Theory and Ergonomics: Designing the Electronic Writing Classroom." (with Michael Pemberton). Approaches to Computer Writing Classrooms: Learning from Practical Experience. Ed. Linda Myers. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993. 35-52.

"Electronic Meetings of the Minds: Electronic Conferences, Research, and Composition Studies." Re-Imagining Computers and Composition: Teaching and Research in the Virtual Age. Ed. Gail E. Hawisher and Paul LeBlanc. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1992. 81-101.

"Voices in College Classrooms: The Dynamics of Electronic Discussion." (with Cynthia Selfe) The Quarterly 14 (Summer 1992): 24-28, 32.

"Visual and Verbal Learning." The English Classroom in the Computer Age. Ed. William Wresch. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1991. 129-32.

"Writers, Judges, and Text Models." (with Alan C. Purves). Developing Discourse Processes in Adolescence and Adulthood. Ed. Richard Beach and Susan Hynds. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1990. 183-199.

"Content Knowledge versus Process Knowledge: A False Dichotomy." On Literacy and Its Teaching: Issues in English Education. Ed. Gail E. Hawisher and Anna O. Söter. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1990. 1-18.