About the Author
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.
Leila Christenbury is Professor of English Education at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she teaches young adult literature, the teaching of writing, teaching methods for both secondary and middle school, and instructional theory and design. A former high school English teacher, well-known writer and researcher in English education, and past English Journal editor, Christenbury was recently elected president of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Kelly Sassi, a former high-school teacher in Fairbanks, Alaska, and a graduate student at the University of Michigan, has taught CRISS workshops and classes for teachers in literacy strategies. She evaluates AP exams for the Educational Testing Service, and has presented at NCTE on media literacy and the high-school-college transition.
