Anne R Gere

Anne Ruggles Gere directs the Ph.D. Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan where she is a Professor of English and a Professor of Education. While she was on the faculty at the University of Washington, she founded and directed the Puget Sound Writing Program. She also directed an NEH-sponsored program on writing across the curriculum, from which Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines (NCTE, 1985) emerged. She is author of Writing Groups: History,...See more

Anne Ruggles Gere directs the Ph.D. Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan where she is a Professor of English and a Professor of Education. While she was on the faculty at the University of Washington, she founded and directed the Puget Sound Writing Program. She also directed an NEH-sponsored program on writing across the curriculum, from which Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines (NCTE, 1985) emerged. She is author of Writing Groups: History, Theory, and Implications (Southern Illinois University Press, 1987) and editor of Into the Field: Sites of Composition Studies (MLA, 1993). Gere was Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in 1993-1994 and has served on a number of NCTE committees. See less