CHRIS ANSON is Distinguished University Professor, Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor, and Senior Strategic Advisor for the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in language, composition, and literacy and works with faculty across the curriculum to reform undergraduate education in the areas of writing and oral and digital communication. Before moving to NCSU in 1999, he spent fifteen years at the University of Minnesota, where he directed the Program in Composition from 1988-96 and was Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor in the Department of English. He received his Ph.D. and second M.A. in English with a specialization in composition studies from Indiana University, and his B.A. and first M.A. in English from Syracuse University.

Chris has received numerous awards, including the North Carolina State University Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor Award, the North Carolina State University Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award, the State of Minnesota Higher Education Teaching Excellence Award, the Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, and the Governor's Star Service Award for his service-learning work at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the North Carolina State University Academy of Outstanding Teachers. He is a Distinguised Fellow of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum. He was an NCTE Promising Researcher Award Finalist and has received or participated as a co-principal investigator in over $2.1 million in grants.

Chris has published 19 books and over 145 journal articles and book chapters, with a current h-index of 39 and i-10 index of 83. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Writing Research and is on the editorial or reader's boards of many other journals, including College Composition and Communication, College English, Research in the Teaching of English, the Journal of Basic Writing, Across the Disciplines, Written Communication, Assessing Writing, and The Journal of Writing Assessment. He recently co-edited an award-winning collection of essays focusing on writing-enriched curricula and, with several co-editors, published an edited collection on the digitalization of academic writing (Springer, 2023).

Chris has given over 740 conference papers, keynote addresses, and invited lectures and faculty workshops across the U.S. and in 34 other countries.

Chris has served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (2011-14; Chair, 2013) and as President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (2002-2005) and spent seven additional years on the WPA Executive Board. He has also served on the CCCC Executive Committee (1993-96 and 2011-14) and 11 other CCCC committees, as well as several NCTE committees. He chaired the NCTE Assembly for Research in 1992-3 and was program co-chair of the NCTE Global Conference on Language and Literacy in Utrecht, Netherlands. He chaired the WPA Task Force on Plagiarism and the WPA Task Force on Internationalization, and formed the MMLA's Writing-Across-the-Curriculum section He is currently Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research.

His full c.v. is located at http://www.ansonica.net