Conference Speakers

Keynote Speaker: Professor Lisa Ede

Dr. Lisa Ede is Director of the Center for Writing and Learning and Professor of English at Oregon State University. During her tenure at OSU, Dr. Ede has been recognized with the College of Liberal Arts Excellence Award and the OSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award.

She has published four books and over forty articles and book chapters. Her individual and coauthored research has been recognized with awards from the Modern Language Association, Conference on College Composition and Communication, and National Writing Center Association. Dr. Ede currently serves on the editorial boards of Pre/Text: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetoric, Textual Studies in Canada, Writing on the Edge, and The Writing Center Journal; she also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition She holds a B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. in English.

Luncheon Speaker: Professor Beverly Moss

Beverly J. Moss, associate professor of English, is director of Ohio State University's Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing and former director of the OSU Writing Center. In addition, she is on the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English.A graduate of Spelman College (B.A.), Carnegie-Mellon (M.A.), and the University of Illinois at Chicago (Ph.D.), Moss publishes in literacy studies, the teaching of writing, and ethnography in composition studies.

Currently, she teaches courses in composition theory and pedagogy, history and theories of literacy, and first-year and second year writing. She is also the author of A Community Text Arises (Hampton Press, 2003), editor of Literacy Across Communities (Hampton Press, 1994), coeditor (with Nels Highberg and Melissa Nicolas) of By Any Other Name: Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom (Lawrence Erlbaum and International Writing Center Association Press, forthcoming) and several essays.