Professor Mott joined the Department of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris (AUP) in 1985 and has taught a variety of composition and literature classes in the English writing and FirstBridge programs. Mott is the Director of the University’s Writing Lab and a Board Member Emeritus of the EWCA (European Writing Centers Association). Mott remains active in cultivating links among Writing Center practitioners across Europe and beyond and in creating a forum for bridging international models of Writing Center theory. She has helped to organize and host EWCA conferences in Turkey, Greece, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Israel, the Emirates, Bulgaria, and at AUP. Mott regularly presents professional papers on topics ranging from Writing Identities in the Pluricultural Classroom and Classroom Environments as Centers of Writing, to Freshmen and a Culture of Writing and global visions of Writing Center practice, Her research interests include 20th century Southern writers and composition theory, particularly process pedagogy. Professor Mott has received a Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award as well as two Student Service Awards from the SGA “For her exemplary service to the student body of The American University of Paris.”
Professor Mott's interest in former Writing Lab tutors has led her to engage in a research project that will look at both the long and short-term effects of being an undergraduate and graduate WL tutor at The American University of Paris. Her goal is to assess the value of peer tutoring on the tutors themselves, and to learn more about the ways they may have put their training and experience to work on the job and in their life.