Associate Professor
English Departement, St. John's Liberal Arts and Sciences
Director of Writing Across the Curriculum,
Institute for Writing Studies
St. Augustine Library, Room 172
Queens Campus
(718) 990-6993
gellera@stjohns.edu
Profile
Anne Ellen Geller is Associate Professor, English and Director of
Writing Across the Curriculum, Institute for Writing Studies. Her
research focuses on student and faculty writers, writing centers,
writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines,
writing program administration, and co-authorship.
She is co-author (with Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg
Carroll and Elizabeth Boquet) of The Everyday Writing Center: A
Community of Practice (Utah State University Press, 2007) and
numerous other chapters and articles.
Currently Anne is researching and writing When Johnny
Couldn’t Write: What Came of the National Endowment for the
Humanities Grants for Writing, 1973 -1987, a book project in
which she is tracing the impact of the millions of dollars the
National Endowment for the Humanities devoted to seminars for
teachers of writing and to the development of writing programs at
large and small, public and private colleges and universities
across the country. In 2011 she presented portions of this project
at the MLA, Writing Research Across Borders and CCCC conferences,
and this research is supported by a 2011 Council of Writing Program
Administrators Research Grant.
Anne is also co-editing (with Michele Eodice) Working With
Faculty Writers, a collection that argues for adeeper
understanding of faculty needs in the areas of writing and
publication and addresses a variety of concerns in higher
education, from tenure issues and retention of faculty to the
relationship between scholarly writing and teaching to the
development of cross-disciplinary and interdisicplinary research
collaborations.
She was awarded a 2010-2011 CCCC Research Initiative Grant (with
Michele Eodice and Neal Lerner) for a project entitled “Seniors
Reflect on Their Meaningful Writing Experiences: A
Cross-Institutional Study.” With this funding Geller, Eodice
and Lerner will be working with undergraduate research teams to
explore students’ experiences writing across the curriculum and
across communities at St. John’s University, the University of
Oklahoma and Northeastern University.
Anne is 2011-2012 Chair of the Northeast Writing Across the
Curriculum Consortium (the only regional writing across the
curriculum organization in the US), a member of the Board of
Consultants of the International Writing Across the Curriculum
Network, and one of the twenty-five founding faculty members of the
National Writing Across Communities Consortium.
To read more about Anne’s research and teaching, the St. John’s
WAC Faculty Fellows/Writing Fellows Program (2009, 2010) and the
Summer Faculty Writing Institutes in Rome (2007, 2008) and Paris
(2011), see: http://stjohns.academia.edu/AnneEllenGeller and
http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/centers/iws/wac.