Andrea Lunsford

Born in Oklahoma, Lunsford grew up in a segregated Appalachian community that shaped her understanding of literacy's liberatory potential. Her family moved frequently due to her father's accounting career, eventually settling in St. Augustine, Florida. Despite being discouraged from pursuing doctoral studies by a professor who suggested she "go home, get married, and have babies," Lunsford received her B.A. and M.A. at the University of Florida and completed her Ph.D. in English at the Ohio State University in 1977. == Career ==

Lunsford's academic career began in 1965 as an English instructor at Colonial High School in Orlando, Florida, where she taught until 1968. She then served as Associate Professor of English at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa from 1969 to 1972. While completing her doctoral studies at Ohio State University, she worked as a Graduate Research Associate in the English Department from 1972 to 1977. Following her PhD, Lunsford joined the University of British Columbia as an Assistant Professor in 1977, advancing to Associate Professor and Director of Writing from 1981 to 1986. In 1986, Lunsford returned to The Ohio State University as Professor of English, achieving the rank of Distinguished Professor in 1990. During her tenure at Ohio State (1986 to 2000), she held several administrative roles including Vice Chair of the English Department, Chair of the University Writing Board, and Director of the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing. Concurrently, she maintained an active teaching schedule at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf Graduate School of English, serving intermittently as Professor during summer sessions from 1989 to 2020 and as site director at the Santa Fe Campus from 2001 to 2003. She was Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and Chair of the MLA Division on Writing. She served on the Executive Councils of both the Modern Language Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. Stanford presents the Lunsford Oral Presentation of Research Award to several second-year undergraduates each year. She named a Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America in 2019, Lunsford received the MLA Shaughnessy Award for the best book on the teaching of language (1985), the MLA/ADE Francis Andrew March Award (2002), the Ohio Women of Achievement Award 1996), the Conference on CCCC Exemplar Award (1994), and the CCCC Braddock Award for best article published in College Composition and Communication (1984 and 2005). She. holds honorary doctorate degrees from Middlebury College and Sweden’s University of Örebro. ==Contributions==

Lunsford, along with Lisa Ede, argues for collaborative writing and the ability for writers to work together and be rewarded for their work on the same level as singular writers. Lunsford has collaborated on researching the role of audience in composition theory and pedagogy. Lunsford and Ede also examined the concept of audience, identifying and describing “addressed” and “invoked” audiences and arguing for an elaborated view of audience that recognizes and values the creativity of both the writer and the reader. In 2001, Lunsford began a five-year longitudinal study of college student writing, following 15% of Stanford’s class of 2005 through college and one year beyond. This study collected writing the student participants did both in and out of class in a digital database. Now housed in the Stanford Digital Archives, this represents one of the largest collections of undergraduate writing. Her study challenged prevailing assumptions about digital media's impact on student writing, presenting evidence that current students produce more writing across more genres than previous generations. theory, and practice, theories of collaborative writing, multimodal composition, intellectual property considerations, and translingual approaches to style. She developed interdisciplinary methods in rhetoric that combine elements from communication studies and composition theory. ==Personal life==

She now lives on an ocean bluff in northern California, writing and reading and working in a shared organic garden. == Selected publications ==

Books • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Chapters in Books • • • • • • • • Journals • • • • • • • • • • • • Editor, Special Issue on Postcolonial Studies and Composition. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 18:1 (Winter 1998). • • ==References==