Blair, Kristine
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Biography
Kristine L. Blair is chair of the [English Department at Bowling Green State University][1]. She is editor of Computers and Composition Online,[1] as well as Computers and Composition: An International Journal.[2]
Blair holds bachelor's and master's degrees from California State University and her Ph.D. from Purdue University.[3] She has research interests in "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."[4]
For five years, Blair directed the "Digital Mirror," a residential summer computer camp conceived in 2006 by Blair and students in her Rhetoric and Writing classes to provide computer technology experiential learning for girls in grades 6-8.[5]
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.
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.
References
- ↑ http://www2.bgsu.edu/departments/english/cconline/eds.htm
- ↑ http://computersandcomposition.candcblog.org/
- ↑ http://www2.bgsu.edu/departments/english/kblair/vita.html
- ↑ http://www2.bgsu.edu/departments/wmst/page85789.html
- ↑ http://www2.bgsu.edu/offices/mc/news/2011/news94067.html
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