About me
Anne Langendorfer is the Fulbright Finland Foundation’s Fulbright-Tampere University Scholar for the 2026-2027 academic year. She is spending her year on leave from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in the United States, where she is a Teaching Professor in the Department of English and a Community Engagement Faculty Fellow at the Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center. She also serves as the elected President of United Campus Workers Southeast (CWA Local 3821), a higher education labor union.
Anne is dedicated to researching and teaching narrative and writing for social and academic purposes; the goal of her work is to help cultivate an understanding of writing and narrative through rhetorical approaches. She pays special attention to the important roles of emotion, conversation, and reflection in this work.
As a Fulbright-Tampere University Scholar, Anne is exploring new narrative methodologies for studying a specific genre of transactional narrative: the college application essay. In particular, she’s examining the personal stories U.S. students write to gain admission to many institutions of higher education in the United States in order to learn about the relationship between these narratives and students’ later reflective narratives about themselves as writers.
Anne’s teaching and research this year is in Tampere University’s Faculty of Social Sciences, where she is hosted by Professor Mari Hatavara, Literary Studies, and Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies at Tampere University, Finland.
