Anne Ruggles Gere

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Anne Ruggles Gere
NationalityAmerican
US
Education Colby College (BA)
Colgate University (MA)
University of Michigan (PhD)
AwardsRegents Award for Distinguished Public Service (2006, University of Michigan),
Spencer Foundation Fellowship (2001, National Academy of Education),
Making American Literatures Project (1997, National Endowment for the Humanities)
Scientific career
Fields English
Education
Rhetoric
Composition
Institutions University of Washington
University of Michigan
Thesis West African Oratory And The Fiction Of Chinua Achebe And T. M. Aluko  (1974)
Website sites.google.com/umich.edu/anne-ruggles-gere/curriculum-vitae

Anne Ruggles Gere (also known as Anne Gere) is an American scholar in the field of language education and literacy. She has published on topics such as the history of writing groups, best practices in literacy education, and integration of culturally responsive pedagogy.

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Ruggles Gere has served as president of the Modern Language Association., [1] National Council of Teachers of English, [2] and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. [3] Additionally, she has served as the chair of University of Michigan's Joint Program in English and Education since 1988, [4] participating in over 100 dissertation committees, many of whom have built on her research.

She is the Arthur F. Thurnau Collegiate professor of English [5] and the Gertrude Buck Professor of Education [6] at the University of Michigan, [7] and her academic research has focused on the evolution of writing groups, [8] [9] the history of women's clubs, [10] [11] and writing pedagogy. [12] [13] Her research examines how literacy practices in women's clubs empowered active collaboration—juxtaposing with common characterizations of writers as solitary and women as disempowered. She asserts that clubwomen engaged in social, economic, and political issues that shaped the nation.

In 2018, she was awarded the Distinguished Professor of the Year for all public post-secondary education in the state of Michigan. [14] Her research has been funded by grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation, Humanities Collaboratory, as well as the Department of Education. Additionally, she has received awards from Spencer Foundation from the National Academy of Education, National Women's Studies Association, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Research

Writing groups

Ruggles Gere's research explores the social dimension of writing groups and aims to expand the concept of writing beyond solo performances and academic writing. She explores these aspects of writing groups in her books, Writing Groups: History, Theory and Implications, [8] Kitchen tables and rented rooms: The extracurriculum of composition [10] and Intimate practices: Literacy and cultural work in US women's clubs, 1880-1920. [11] This research has been discussed and adopted into additional work by Ken Hyland [15] [16] and Keith James Topping. [17]

Literacy education

Gere's research also examines sites of literacy education in the United States. This work overlaps with her archival research of writing groups, as writing groups were often cites of literacy education. In addition to her archival research of historic sites of literacy education, she outline modern literacy education in her MLA-published edited collection Into the Field: Sites of Composition Studies [18] in a manner similar to Deborah Brandt. This book defines composition studies through its interdisciplinary relationships with rhetoric, literary theory, and linguistics. As a whole, the book positions writing studies as a field that teaches cultural practices rather than valid or invalid syntax as promoted in formal grammar by Noam Chomsky.

Leadership

Modern Language Association

Anne Ruggles Gere served as the president for the Modern Language Association in the year 2018. She was preceded by Diana Taylor and succeeded by Simon Gikandi. Her term was highlighted by three main themes: combating systemic abuse of junior faculty, [19] adapting MLA to the waning enrollment in English courses, [20] and emphasizing public humanities [21]

She addressed and combatted the systemic abuses of power that have harmed students and junior faculty members. Her presidency moved MLA to take steps to address these issues by devoting open discussions at conventions to power dynamics on campus and creating a page on its website for anonymous discussion of abusive mentoring practices. [19]

National Council of Teachers of English

Ruggles Gere was president of the National Council of Teachers of English for the years 2000-2001. [2] She was succeeded by Cultural Literacy scholar Leila Christenbury and preceded by Whole Language researcher Jerome Harste. During her tenure, the organization hosted two conferences with themes such as "Teaching Matters," and "Re-Creating the Classroom." [22]

Conference on College Composition and Communication

Anne Ruggles Gere was the Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication for the year 1993. That year they held their conference in San Diego, California with the theme, “Twentieth Century Problems, Twenty-First Century Solutions: Issues, Answers, Actions”. [23]

Awards and distinctions

Throughout her tenure, Anne Ruggles Gere has received awards and distinctions for her scholarship and leadership. In 2019, she received the Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize at University of Michigan. [24] The previous year, she was awarded the Distinguished Professor of the Year by the Michigan Association of State Universities. [14] In 2001, she received a research award from the International Center for Research on Women. Additionally, she was the recipient of an award from the Technology Assisted Teacher Education (TATE) Project for the Computerworld Smithsonian Program.

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  2. 1 2 "National Council of Teachers of English Officers Registry" (PDF). NCTE Main Page. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  3. ↑ "CCCC chairs". June 6, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Anne Gere CV".
  5. ↑ "Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Anne Gere, PhD" . Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  6. ↑ "Gertrude Buck Professor of Education Anne Gere, PhD". University of Michigan Website. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  7. ↑ "Anne Gere Homepage". University of Michigan Website. University of Michigan. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  8. 1 2 Gere, Anne (1987). Writing Groups: History, Theory, Implications. SIU Press. ISBN   9780809313549 . Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  9. ↑ Gere, Anne (1994). "Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition". College Composition and Communication. 45 (1): 45–92. doi:10.2307/358588. JSTOR   358588 . Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  10. 1 2 Gere, Anne (1996). "Gendered Literacy in Black and White: Turn-of-the-Century African-American and European-American Club Women's Printed Texts". Signs. 21 (3): 643–678. doi:10.1086/495101. S2CID   143859735 . Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  11. 1 2 Gere, Anne (1997). Intimate Practices Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920. University of Illinois Press. ISBN   9780252066047.
  12. ↑ Gere, Anne (1980). "Written Composition: Toward a Theory of Evaluation". College English. 42 (1): 44–53. doi:10.2307/376032. JSTOR   376032 . Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  13. ↑ Gere, Anne (1985). Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn across the Disciplines. ERIC. ISBN   0-8141-4198-6.
  14. 1 2 "Michigan Association of State Universities". MASU.
  15. ↑ Hyland, Ken (2019). Second Language Writing. Cambridge University Press. pp.  https://www.google.com/books/edition/Second_Language_Writing/6DCdDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. ISBN   9781108470711.
  16. ↑ Hyland, Ken (2021). Teaching and Researching Writing. Taylor and Francis. ISBN   9781000426632.
  17. ↑ Topping, K.J. (1996). "The effectiveness of peer tutoring in further and higher education: A typology and review of the literature". Higher Education. 32 (3): 321–345. doi:10.1007/BF00138870. S2CID   2430976.
  18. ↑ Gere, Anne (1993). Into the Field Sites of Composition Studies. Modern Language Association. ISBN   9780873523981.
  19. 1 2 Gere, Anne (November 30, 2018). "Acknowledging abuses and committing to change". MLA Website.
  20. ↑ Gere, Anne (November 6, 2018). "Re-Visioning Textual Transactions". MLA Website.
  21. ↑ Gere, Anne (May 10, 2018). "Rethinking Public Humanities". MLA Website. Modern Language Association.
  22. ↑ Gere, Anne. "NCTE Past Conferences". NCTE Website.
  23. ↑ "CCCC Past Conventions". CCCC website. June 6, 2018.
  24. ↑ "Teaching Innovation Prize". University of Michigan Website.
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