Yancey, Kathleen

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Kathleen Yancey is the current Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English at Florida State University. She is a well-known scholar in her field, with her research focusing “on composition studies generally; on students' transfer of writing knowledge and practice; on creative non-fiction; on cultural studies of everyday writing; on writing assessment, especially print and electronic portfolios; and on the intersections of culture, literacy and technologies”(Reference). Most recently, she published Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing (2014) with Liane Robertson and Kara Taczak. The book discusses how students can be taught to transfer the knowledge of writing that they learn in their classes.

[edit] Recent Works in Digital Media

• Composing, Networks, and Electronic Portfolios: Notes Toward a Theory of Assessing ePortfolios – Yancey, Stephen J. McElroy, and Elizabeth Powers explore ePortfolios and the benefits they have for digital writers.
• "Portfolios, Circulation, Exology, and the Development of Literacy” - A chapter of Technological Ecologies & Sustainability in which Yancey explores how electronic portfolios allow writers to circulate their work.

[edit] Education

• Ph.D. - English. Purdue University 1983

Unpublished dissertation: Scripts, Schemas, and Scribes: Needed Dimensions of the Composing Process

• M.A - English Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1977
• B.A. - English. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1972

[edit] Career

Yancey is currently employed at Florida State University, where she is:

• A professor of English (2005-present)
• An “information assistant and writer” of “Medical Humanities and Social Sciences” (2011-present)
• Director of the Universities Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Program (2005-present)
• Co-Director and co-founder of the Inter/National Coalition For Electronic Portfolio Research (NCPER) (2003-present)

-(Reference).

[edit] Current Projects

• Editing Assembling Composition with Stephen J. McElroy (2017)
• Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity: Shadows of the Past, Issues of the Moment, and Prospects for the Future, a collection featuring submissions. Edited with Rita Malencyzk, Susan Millar-Cochran, and Elizabeth Wardle (Currently being reviewed).
• A book: The Way We Were: A Cultural History of Everyday Writing in the 20th Century United States.

[edit] References

• Faculty Page – Florida State University
• CV