Publications

Dissertation

Knutson, A.V. (2018). “It’s All Part of an Education”: Case Studies of Writing Knowledge Transfer Across Academic and Social Media Domains Among Four Feminist College Students. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan]. DeepBlue.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

O’Sullivan, Í., Hart, D.A., Holmes, A.J., Knutson, A.V., Sinha, Y., & Yancey, K.B. (2022). Multiple forms of representation: Using maps to triangulate students’ tacit writing knowledge. Composition Forum, 49.

Gold, D., Garcia, M., Knutson, A.V. (2019). Going public in an age of digital anxiety: How students negotiate the topoi of online writing environments. Composition Forum, 41.

Gere, A.R., Knutson, A.V., Limlamai, N., McCarty, R., & Wilson, E. (2018). A tale of two prompts: New perspectives on writing-to-learn assignments. The WAC Journal, 29, 147-167.

Gere, A.R., Knutson, A.V., & McCarty, R. (2018). Rewriting disciplines: STEM students’ longitudinal approaches to writing in (and across) the disciplines. Across the Disciplines, 15(3).

Davila, B., Bourelle, T., Bourelle, A., & Knutson, A.V. (2017). Linguistic diversity in online writing classes. WPA: Writing Program Administration, 41(1), 60-81.

Gere, A.R., Hutton, E., Keating, B., Knutson, A.V., Silver, N.E., & Toth, C.M. (2017). Mutual adjustments: Learning from and responding to transfer student writers. College English, 79(4), 333-357.

Bourelle, A., Bourelle, T., Knutson, A.V., & Spong, S. (2016). Sites of multimodal literacy: Comparing student learning in online and face-to-face environments. Computers and Composition, 39, 55-70.

Bourelle, T., Bourelle, A., Spong, S., Knutson, A.V., Howland-Davis, E., & Kubasek, N. (2015). Reflections in online writing instruction: Pathways to professional development. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 20(1).

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Knutson, A.V. (2023). “It’s not like I can put a picture of a paper on Instagram, you know?”: Genre and multimodality in writing knowledge transfer across contexts. In K.P. Alexander, M. Davis, L.W. Mina, & R.P. Shepherd (Eds.), Multimodal composing and writing transfer.

Yancey, K.B, Hart, A., Holmes, A., Knutson, A.V., O’Sullivan, I., & Sinha, Y. (2021). “There is a lot of overlap”: Tracing writing development across spheres of writing. In J. Bleakney, P. Rosinski, & J.L. Moore (Eds.), Writing beyond the university: Preparing lifelong learners for lifewide writing. Elon, NC: Elon University Center for Engaged Learning.

Knutson, A.V. (2019). Grace: A case study of resourcefulness and resilience. In A.R. Gere (Ed.), Developing writers in higher education: A longitudinal study. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Schiavone, A., & Knutson, A.V. (2017). Pedagogy at the crossroads: Instructor identity, social class consciousness, and reflective teaching practice. In W. H. Thelin, & G. Carter (Eds.), Class in the composition classroom: Pedagogy and the working class. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.

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

She brings 4 years of industry experience across Google, Meta, and Microsoft, doctoral-level methodological training, and 10 years publishing academic research on digital communication and learning (3 as a professor and 7 as a graduate student).

In her research, she blends the methodological rigor of an academic with the product instincts of someone who has shipped research at scale.

When she’s not conducting research, she is either writing songs or hiking with her partner and dog.