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Gail Hawisher
Gail Hawisher is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Contact Information
201 English Building | MC-718
217-333-3251
hawisher@illinois.edu
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Publications
Professor Hawisher's published work includes the co-edited collections Critical Perspectives on Computers and Composition Instruction, On Literacy and its Teaching, Evolving Perspectives on Computers and Composition Studies: Questions for the 1990s, and Re-Imagining Computers and Composition: Teaching and Research in the Virtual Age. She is also co-author of Computers and the Teaching of Writing In American Higher Education: A History (Ablex, 1996) and Literate Lives in the Information Age: Narratives of Literacy from the United States (Erlbaum, 2004).
Her work has also appeared in College Composition and Communication, Research in the Teaching of English, the English Journal, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Written Communication, and, College English, among them. See the most recent “Globalization and Agency: Designing and Redesigning the Literacies of Cyberspace” (College English, 2006). In addition, various anthologies include chapters, such as "Literacies and the Complexities of the Global Digital Divide," (Elsevier, 2006) and "Women and the Global Ecology of Digital Literacies," (Erlbaum/Routledge, 2007) that extend her research into issues of digital literacy abroad. She has also had the honor of presenting her work to colleagues around the world in Australia, People’s Republic of China, New Zealand, Greece, Canada, Japan, Egypt, England, Zimbabwe, Norway, and the Netherlands.
With Cynthia Selfe, she continues to edit the international journal, Computers and Composition. Other publications include her co-edited Global Literacies and the World Wide Web (2000) and Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies, which won the Distinguished Book Award at Computers and Writing 2000. Her most recent project, with Cynthia Selfe, is a book-length study, Gaming Lives in the 21st Century: Literate Connections (Palgrave, 2007).Awards
In 2000, she was honored to receive the Robert Schneider Award for Outstanding Teaching and Service from the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her university has also awarded her the Lynn M. Martin Award for Distinguished Women Faculty, the Campuswide Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2004) and the University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar Award (2005).