Faculty Leaders

Andrea Lunsford

Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English, Emerita, and former director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric

Andrea Lunsford joined the Stanford faculty in March 2000 after serving as the Distinguished Professor of English at The Ohio State University (1986-00), where she also served as Vice Chair of the Department of English, as Chair of the University Writing Board, and as Director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing.  Professor Lunsford is also a member of the faculty of the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer graduate school for those pursuing a Master of Arts or a Masters of Letters degree in English.

Her scholarly interests include contemporary rhetorical theory; women and the history of rhetoric; collaboration and collaborative writing; current cultures of writing; intellectual property and composing; style; and technologies of writing. She has written, co-authored, or co-edited twenty one books, including Everyone's an Author, Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice, Landmark Essays in Rhetoric and Feminism, 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,. Her most recent books are The St. Martin's Handbook, 7th edition and Everything's an Argument, 6th edition.

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, as Chair of the Modern Language Association Division on Writing, and as a member of the MLA Executive Council.

ACCOLADES

-- Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor of English, 2005

-- Frank and Eleanor Griffiths Chair, Bread Loaf School of English, 2001