Awards and grants

2021 Honorable Mention, Best WAC Article or Chapter Focused on Pedagogy, Theory, or Practice; Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and the WAC Clearinghouse, for “A Tale of Two Prompts: New Perspectives on Writing to Learn Assignments,” with Anne Ruggles Gere, Naitnaphit Limlamai, Ryan McCarty, and Emily Wilson

2021 Wimmer Family Foundation Grant, Duquesne University, for “First-Year Writing Curriculum Revision: Ensuring the Future of Research-Informed Writing Pedagogy at Duquesne University”

2020 Emergent Researcher Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication, for “Intersecting Genres, Transforming Modes: Feminist Writers’ Transfer Across Academic and Non-Academic Domains”

2019 Wimmer Family Foundation Grant, Duquesne University, for “Writing Across Contexts and Borders: College Writers’ Transfer Across Academic and Non-Academic Domains”

2018 Rackham One-Term Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan

2017 Ellen Nold Best Article Award; Computers and Composition Awards, for “Sites of Multimodal Literacy: Comparing Student Learning in Online and Face-to-Face Environments,” with Andrew Bourelle, Tiffany Bourelle, and Stephanie Spong

2016 Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Michigan

2016 WPA-GO Research and Writing Group Travel Grant, CWPA Conference, Raleigh, NC

2016 Hawisher & Selfe Caring for the Future Scholarship, Computers and Writing Conference

2016 Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Michigan

2013 School of Education Scholars Award, School of Education, University of Michigan

2013 Distinction, MA, University of New Mexico

2013 Outstanding Rhetoric and Writing Student, English Graduate Student Association, University of New Mexico

2012 Rhetoric and Writing Achievement Award, English Department, University of New Mexico

Anna Knutson is a qualitative UX researcher specializing in digital communication and connection.

She brings 4 years of industry experience across Google, Meta, and Microsoft, doctoral-level methodological training, and 3 years as a tenure-track professor publishing research on digital communication.

As a UX researcher, she blends the methodological rigor of an academic with the product instincts of someone who has shipped research at scale.