Bowling Green State University

Faculty Member, Rhetoric and Writing

English Department Chair

College of Arts and Sciences

About

Kristine Blair is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Bowling Green State University, where she has taught undergraduate courses in classroom technologies, language arts, and a fully online writing course for adult learners; and doctoral-level courses in computer-mediated writing theory, research methodologies, and a fully online course that prepares English teachers to teach online.

Her book projects include the co-edited collections Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice (Hampton Press, 2009); Feminist Cyberscapes: Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces (Ablex, 1999); the co-authored rhetoric/reader Cultural Attractions/Cultural Attractions: Critical Literacy in Contemporary Contexts (Prentice Hall, 2000); a co-authored monograph, Composition: Discipline Analysis, which considers of the impact of feminisms on composition theory and pedagogy for the National Center for Curriculum Transformation for Women (Towson UP, 1999); and a co-authored textbook, Grammar for Language Arts Teachers (Longman, 2003).

The author of over fifty articles, book chapters, proceedings, reviews, and online publications on gender and technology, electronic portfolios, the politics of online communication, and cultural studies pedagogies, her work has appeared in such journals as MLA Profession, Computers and Composition, Pedagogy, the Community Literacy Journal, Journal of Literacy and Technology, The Journal of Educational Technology, Kairos, Technical Communication Quarterly, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, and numerous edited volumes.

She has served as editor of Computers and Composition Online since 2002 and has assumed editorship of Computers and Composition print. In 2004 and 2009, she was named the Outstanding Contributor to Graduate Education by the BGSU Graduate Student Senate, in 2007 she received the Technology Innovator Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication's 7Cs Committee, and in 2010 she received the Computers and Composition Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field. In 2010-11 she served as Chair of BGSU's Faculty Senate.

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