Meet Anna Habib, Assistant Director of the University Writing Center

Anna was born in Beirut, Lebanon at the peak of the civil war and fled to the island of Cyprus with her family, where she grew up speaking English, Arabic, French and Greek.

She graduated from George Mason University with her Master’s of Fine Arts in Nonfiction writing. She is currently working on a book-in-progress, A Block from Bliss Street, about her experiences as a child of the Lebanese civil war. Her article “Cultural Awareness in the Tutoring Room” appeared in the November 2006 issue of The Writing Lab Newsletter.

Anna is a term assistant professor in the English Department; she will be serving as Interim Director of the Writing Center in Spring 2007 when Terry Zawacki is on research leave.

With Terry and three other Writing Center tutors, she is conducting research on non-native students’ experiences with writing for the U.S. academy. They will be presenting their findings at the  annual Conference on College Composition and Communication in March ’07.