WAC Director

Ann M. Blakeslee, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature
614H Pray-Harrold
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
(734) 487-6813
ann.blakeslee@emich.edu

Ann M. Blakeslee, professor of English, directs the Writing Across the Curriculum program at EMU. Professor Blakeslee previously served as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the university, and she co-chaired the implementation of the General Education program. She has published extensively on a range of topics, including writing in the disciplines, writing in the workplace, research methods, audience, and genre. In 2007, she guest edited a special issue of the Journal of Business and Technical Communication (July) on writing in the disciplines, and she recently published, with Cathy Fleischer, Becoming a Writing Researcher (Erlbaum, 2007), a textbook on qualitative research methods. Her book, Interacting with Audiences: Social Influences on the Production of Scientific Writing, was published in 2001 by Lawrence Erlbaum.

Professor Blakeslee currently serves as treasurer and as a member of the executive committee for the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). She has served on numerous national committees and boards, including the research grants committee for the Society for Technical Communication (STC), the Braddock Award committee for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the executive committee, as vice president, of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). She is also on the editorial board for the journal, Programmatic Perspectives.