Blair, Kristine

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Biography

Kristine L. Blair is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at Youngstown State University. She is the editor of Computers and Composition print and online[1]

Blair holds bachelor's and master's degrees from California State University and her Ph.D. from Purdue University. Her research interests include gender and technology, digital teaching portfolios, the impact of online teaching and learning in redefining academic labor, and the role of narrative, particularly narrative (as a methodology for theorizing technological literacy acquisition among teachers, students, and citizens.

Awards and Honors

Blair received the 2007 Technology Innovator Award from the 7Cs Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication. In 2010 she received the Computers and Composition: An International Journal Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field. She also received Purdue University's Distinguished Woman Scholar Award in 2017, an annual award to five alumnae.

Selected Bibliography

Monographs

Kristine Blair and Alice Calderonello. Composition: Discipline Analysis. Baltimore, MD: Towson University Press, 1999.

Edited Collections

Blair, Kristine, Radhika Gajjala, Christine Tulley, eds. Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action. Co-edited collection for the Hampton Press series New Dimensions in Computers and Composition Studies. Cresskill, NJ: 2009.

Blair, Kristine and Pamela Takayoshi, Editors. Feminist Cyberscapes: Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces. Co-edited collection for the Ablex Publishing series New Directions in Computers and Composition Studies. Stamford, CT: Ablex Publishing, 1999.

Articles/Chapters in Edited Collections

Journal Articles

Blair, Kristine, Katie Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, Em Hurford, Stacy Kastner, Alison Witte. "Cyberfeminists at Play: Lessons on Literacy and Activism from a Girls’ Computer Camp." Feminist Teacher 22.1: (2011): 43-59.

Blair, Kristine. "Review Essay: New Media Affordances and the Connected Life." College Composition and Communication (December 2011): 314-327.

Walker, Janice, Kristine Blair, Doug Eyman, Bill Hart-Davidson, Mike McCleod, Jeff Grabill,Fred Kemp, Mike Palmquist, James Purdy, Madeline Sorapure, Christine Tulley, and Victor Vitanza. "Composition 20/20, or What Some Very Smart People Have to Say About the Future." Computers and Composition (December 2011): 327-346.

Blair, Kristine, Gail Hawisher, and Cynthia Selfe. "The Electronic Landscape of Journal Editing: Computers and Composition as a Scholarly Collective." MLA Profession (2009): 160-167.

Blair, Kristine and Elizabeth Monske. "Developing Digital Literacies and Professional Identities: The Benefits of ePortfolios in Graduate Education." Journal of Literacy and Technology (April 2009): online. http://www.literacyandtechnology.org/current_edition.htm

Tulley, Christine and Kristine Blair. “Remediating the Book Review: Toward Collaboration andMultimodality Across the English Curriculum.” Pedagogy 9.3 (2009): 441-469.

Blair, Kristine. "Response to Thomas Skeen’s 'Constructing Essentialism: Computers and Composition and the 'Risk of Essence'." Computers and Composition 25.1 (March 2008): 330-333.

McKee, Heidi and Kristine Blair. "Older Adults and Community-based Technological Literacy Programs: Barriers & Benefits to Learning." Community Literacy Journal Spring 2007.

Blair, Kristine and Cheryl Hoy. “Paying Attention to Adult Learners Online: Politics,Pedagogies, Possibilities.” Computers and Composition 23.1 (2006): 32-48.

Blair, Kristine and Elizabeth Monske. "Cui Bono? Revisiting the Promises and Perils of OnlineLearning. Special 20th Anniversary Issue of Computers and Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing (December 2003): 441-453.

Blair, Kristine. "Literacy, Dialogue, and Difference in the 'Electronic Contact Zone'." Computers and Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing 16 (December1998): 317-329.

Blair, Kristine. "Microethnographies of Electronic Discourse Communities: EstablishingExigency for E-mail in the Professional Writing Classroom." Computers and Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing 13 (April 1996): 85-91.

Blair, Kristine. "Whose Culture is It, Anyway?: Redefining Composition, Literacy, and Those Who Teach It." Works and Days (Spring/Fall 1996): 141-149.

Blair, Kristine. "Ideology, Textbook Production, and the Expert Reading of Popular Culture." Teaching English in the Two-Year College (October 1995): 179-186.

Blair, Kristine. "Foucault, Feminism, and Writing Pedagogy: Strategies for Student Resistanceand Transformation of Popular Culture." The Writing Instructor (Spring 1994): 112-123.

Blair, Kristine. "Selling the Self: Women and the Feminine Seduction in Advertising." Women and Language 17 (Spring 1994): 20-25.

Textbooks

Blair, Kristine, Jen Almjeld, and Robin Murphy. CrossCurrents: Cultures, Communities, Technologies. Cengage, 2013.

Calderonello, Alice, Virginia Martin, and Kristine Blair. Grammar for Language Arts Teachers. New York: Longman, 2003.

Allison, Libby and Kristine L. Blair. Cultural Attractions/Cultural Distractions: Critical Literacy in Contemporary Contexts. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.

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