March 2, 2006
Clark Writing Center director, Geller, wins IWCA award
Worcester,
Mass. - Clark University assistant professor and Director of the Writing
Center and Writing Program, Anne Ellen Geller, won the 2005 International Writing
Centers Association (IWCA) Outstanding Scholarship Award for her essay "Tick,
Tock, Next: Finding Epochal Time in the Writing Center," which appeared
in The Writing Center Journal, Volume 25, Issue 1 (Spring 2005). Only one article
is chosen each year. The award presentation will be at the national Conference
on College Composition and Communication on March 23rd in Chicago.
The Writing Center Journal is an official publication of the International Writing Centers Association http://www.writingcenters.org/ , which is an Affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English http://www.ncte.org/. WCJ is the only peer-reviewed journal dedicated primarily to publishing writing center scholarship.
"Tick, Tock, Next: Finding Epochal Time in the Writing Center" considers how theoretical and cultural conceptions and constructions of time affect teaching and learning. In a collaborative book (to be published by Utah State University Press in 2006), Geller and co-authors consider the ways learning cultures, time, tricksters, performance and ritual, and anti-racism operate in writing centers and critique received ideas of tutor training in hopes of guiding writers, tutors, and directors as they strive toward increasingly rich curricular and extracurricular lives in their writing centers.
Geller is co-recipient (with Gino DiIorio, Theater Arts) of the Seymour N. Logan Faculty Fellowship. With support of the award, they co-teach the course Writing Out Loud. She also teaches expository writing, reading and writing the essay, and literacy, learning, writing.
As part of a Carnegie Corporation funded initiative, Geller also works with high school literacy coaches from the Worcester public schools.
Geller, of Cambridge, MA, earned a B.A. at Mount Holyoke College and her M.A.
and Ph.D. at New York University.