ANDREA A. LUNSFORD 

Andrea Lunsford, Distinguished Professor of English since 1990, has taught at The Ohio State University since 1986 and served, from 1988 to 1997, as Vice Chair of the Department of English. Currently Chair of the University Writing Board and Acting Director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing, she has designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in composition, rhetoric, literacy, and intellectual property. Before joining the Ohio State faculty, she taught at the University of British Columbia, where she served as Director of Writing. Currently also a member of the Bread Loaf School of English faculty, Professor Lunsford earned her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Florida, and she completed her Ph.D. in English at The Ohio State University (1977).

Professor Lunsford's scholarly interests include contemporary rhetorical theory, women and the history of rhetoric, collaboration and collaborative writing, current cultures of writing, style, and technologies of writing. She has written or coauthored thirteen books, including The Everyday Writer; Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse; Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing; and Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the History of Rhetoric, as well as numerous chapters and articles. Her most recent books are The New St. Martin's Handbook , Easy Writer, and Everything's An Argument, and she has contributed forewords to two forthcoming books, Composing our Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Stories About the Growth of a Discipline, edited by Duane Roen, Stuart Brown, and Theresa Enos, and Who Owns Language?, edited by Alice Roy and Lise Buranen.

Professor Lunsford has conducted workshops on writing and program reviews at dozens of North American universities, served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council.

RECENT BOOKS AND ARTICLES

• What Matters Who Writes? What Matters Who Responds? Issues of Ownership in the Writing Classroom. Published at Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments.
• Everything Is An Argument. With John Ruszkiewicz. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 1999.
• The New St. Martin's Handbook. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
• Easy Writer. With Robert Connors. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
• "Alexander Bain and the Teaching of Composition in North America." Scottish Rhetoric and Its Influences, ed.Lynee Lewis Gaillet. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998. 219-229
• "Toward a Mestiza Rhetoric: Gloria Anzaldúa on Composition and Postcoloniality." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 18:1 (Winter 1998).

  FORTHCOMING

• "Who Owns Language?" Plagiarism and its Discontents. Alice Roy and Lise Buranen, eds. Albany: SUNYP.
• "On Composing Our Lives, a Foreword." Composing our Lives in Rhetoric and Composition: Stories About theGrowth of a Discipline. Eds. Duane Roen, Stuart Brown, and Theresa Enos. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.