Charles Bazerman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is founder and former chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research and former chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He has been a visiting professor in Portugal, Denmark, the Czech Republic, France, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Nepal, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, and the US. His books include How I Became the Kind of Writer I Became, A Rhetoric of Literate Action, A Theory of Literate Action, The Languages of Edison's Light, Shaping Written Knowledge, The Informed Writer, The Handbook of Research on Writing, What Writing Does and How It Does It, and Lifespan Development of Writing Abilities.
