Ann Mott

 

The American University of Paris

 

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  Degrees:

BA, MA, University of Alabama.

 

  Assistant Professor of English; Writing Lab Counselor.

 

  Academic Department:

Comparative Literature and English

 

 

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Profile updated: Jan-12

 
 

 

Ann Mott was invited to give the keynote address at the second Middle East-North Africa Writing Centers Alliance (MENAWCA) Conference, “Situating, Sustaining, and Serving.”  The conference was hosted by the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, February 17-18.

 
 
 

 
Recipient of the 2008 Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award, Ann Mott has taught a variety of composition and literature classes in the undergraduate English and freshmen FirstBridge and EnglishBridge programs. Director of the University’s Writing Lab and a member of the EWCA Executive Board, Ann is active in cultivating links among Writing Center practitioners across Europe and in creating a forum for bridging international models of Writing Center theory. She has helped organize EWCA conferences in Istanbul, Turkey and Halkidiki, Greece, and has presented professional papers on both local and global visions of Writing Center practice. Her research interests include composition theory, particularly process pedagogy. “For her exemplary service to the student body of The American University of Paris,” Ann received the Student Service Award in 1997 and 2005.
 
 
 

 
 

Associations and awards

 

Chair, European Writing Centers Association, 2008-2010

 

Executive Board, European Writing Centers Association, 2004 - present

 

Recipient Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award, 2008

 

Recipient, SGA award for Faculty exemplary service to student body, 1997 and 2005

 


Professional Papers

 

“How Do We Make Writing Centers Matter to Bilingual Communities?” – a paper delivered at the EWCA Spring Seminar, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2004.

 

“Freshmen in the Balance: Writing to Learn, Learning to Write” – a paper delivered at the EWCA Conference, Halkidiki, Greece, 2005.

 

“On the Road to Sustainable Excellence: Communicating across the Curriculum” – a paper delivered at the American University of Cairo, Egypt, 2005.

 

“Beyond Anxiety: Turning Writer’s Block into Building Blocks” – a paper delivered at the EWCA conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2006.

 

“Writing Identities in the Pluricultural Classroom” – a paper presented at the Conference for College Professors of Composition and Communication, New York, 2007.

 

“Why Writing Centers Matter.” – a plenary speech delivered at the International Conference on Teaching Academic Writing, Ivan Franko National University, L’viv, Ukraine, 2008.

 

“Classroom Environments as Centers of Writing” - a plenary speech delivered at the FLOW Conference (Foreign Language Opportunities in Writing), University of Lodz, Poland, 2009.

 


Recent Publications

 

“Reflections of a Risk Taker,” Scissors and Tooth, AUP Press, 2006.


“Out! Out! Damn Block,” Scissors and Tooth, AUP Press, 2007.


“Poor Lucy Winter,” Scissors and Tooth, AUP Press, 2007.

 

“Classrooms as Centers of Writing.” Foreign Language Opportunities in Writing. U of Lodz, Press. 2009.

 

 

 

(not available at this time)

 
 
 
 

Contact Ann Mott

 

 

mott@aup.edu

+33 1 40.62.06.00 ext. 672

Grenelle, AUP: 147, Rue de Grenelle, 75007, Paris (Métro: La Tour-Maubourg, Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, Invalides)

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
Departmental Faculty
 
 
 

Alice Craven

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Film Studies; Writing Program Administrator; FirstBridge Coordinator.

 

William Dow

Associate Professor of English

 

Mark Ennis

Instructor of English and Global Communications; Director, English for University Studies and English Foundation Programs.

 

Oliver Feltham

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, English and Philosophy; Coordinator, Philosophy Program.

 

Geoffrey Gilbert

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, English, European and Mediterranean Cultures, and Global Communications; Director, MA in Cultural Translation; Co-Chair, Department of Comparative Literature and English.

 

Neil Gordon

Professor of Comparative Literature; Dean of the University.

 

Jeffrey Greene

Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English

 

Daniel Gunn

Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and European and Mediterranean Cultures; Director, Center for Writers and Translators.

 

Cary Hollinshead-Strick

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English

 

Adrian Harding

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, English and French

 

Lissa Lincoln

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English

 

Linda Martz

Associate Professor of English and History; Coordinator, English Foundation Program.

 

Daniel Medin

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English

 

Ann Mott

Assistant Professor of English; Writing Lab Counselor.

 

Anne-Marie Picard-Drillien

Professor of Comparative Literature, French, and French Studies

 

Rebekah Rast

Associate Professor of English and Linguistics; Co-Chair, Department of Comparative Literature and English.

 

Roy Rosenstein

Professor of Comparative Literature and English

 

Margery Arent Safir

Professor of Comparative Literature and English; Director, The Arts Arena.

 

Celeste Schenck

President of the University; Professor of Comparative Literature.

 

David Tresilian

Instructor of English

 

Jula Wildberger

Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature; Coordinator of Classical Studies.

 
 

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