Michael A. Pemberton Asst. Professor Director, University Writing Center Department of Writing and Linguistics Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA 30460 michaelp@gasou.edu (912) 871-1383  doctorp@enia.net

Michael A. Pemberton is currently Director of the University Writing Center and an assistant professor of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University after having been the director of the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop for nine years.  He has published articles on writing center ethics, theory, and practice in the Writing Lab Newsletter, the Writing Center Journal, and Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, and his research pieces on modeling theory and writing technologies have appeared in journals such as College Composition and Communication and Computers and Composition as well as various book chapters.  His edited book, The Ethics of Writing Instruction: Issues in Theory and Practice, was published in 1999 as volume 4 in the series Perspectives on Writing: Theory, Research, Practice (Ablex), and he is currently working on two new book projects, Writing Center Ethics (drawn from his 50+ columns on the topic in the Writing Lab Newsletter), and The Past, the Center, and the Future: A Millenial Festschrift in Honor of Muriel Harris (co-edited with Joyce Kinkead).  As the co-editor of the journal Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, he continues his interest in issues central to writing across the curriculum, and he is presently serving a two-year term as the President of the National Writing Centers Association.