KATHLEEN BLAKE YANCEY, Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition. Working with her colleagues, she leads the R/C graduate program, inviting in distinguished speakers for talks and workshops, and supporting graduate student research, theory, and practice. Her research focuses on composition studies generally; on writing assessment, especially print and electronic portfolios; and on the intersections of culture, literacy and technologies.

In addition to co-founding and co-editing the journal Assessing Writing, she has authored, edited, or co-edited eleven scholarly books and two textbooks as well as over 65 articles and book chapters. Her latest volume is the co-edited Electronic Portfolios 2.0, which highlights the research on electronic portfolios conducted under the auspices of the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research. Her edited collection Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon, was released recently as well; it received the 2006-2007 Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators. As of July 2009, she is Incoming Editor of College Composition and Communication (CCC), the flagship journal in composition and rhetoric.

Currently, she is Past President of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). In addition, she serves on the Steering Committee for the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) VALUE project focused on electronic portfolios and on the National Board for Miami University's Howe Center for Writing Excellence. Earlier boards she has served on include the Steering Committee of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

With Barbara Cambridge and Darren Cambridge, she leads the Inter/National Coalition on Electronic Portfolio Research (ncepr.org) Now in its fifth year, this coalition includes over 55 institutional partners from around the world as well as the community of Augusta, Arkanas.

SCHOLARLY BOOKS

• Electronic Portfolios 2.0i> (edited collection: 2009)
• The Fifth Canon: Delivering College Composition (edited collection: 2006)
• Teachers Writing Groups: Collaborative Inquiry and Reflection for Professional Growth (co-edited collection:2006)
• Teaching Literature as Reflective Practice (2004)
• Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty and Institutional Learning (co-edited collection: 2001)
• Self-Assessment and Development in Writing: A Collaborative Inquiry (co-edited collection: 2000)
• Reflection in the Writing Classroom (1998)
• Assessing Writing across the Curriculum: Diverse Methods and Practices (co-edited collection: 1997)
• Situating Portfolios: Four Perspectives (co-edited collection: 1997)
• Voices on Voice: Perspectives, Definitions, Inquiry. (edited collection: 1994)
• Portfolios in the Writing Classroom: An Introduction (edited collection:1992)

CURRENT PROJECTS

• "Electronic Portfolios and Writing Assessment: A Work in Progress." In Paretti, Marie C. and Katrina Powell, eds. Assessment in Writing. Assessment in the Disciplines Series, Volume 4. Tallahassee: Association of Institutional Research. 2009.
• "In the Service of Student Learning: Literacy, Assessment, and the Contributions of NCTE." In Erika Lindemann, ed., Reading the Past, Writing the Future: A Century of American Literacy Education and the National Council of Teachers of English
• "Handwriting, Literacy, and Technology." In Shane Borrowman, ed, Before the eRevolution: Technology, Teaching, and the Rhetorical Tradition. Forthcoming 2008: Parlor Press.
• Composition in a New Key: A Theory and Practice of Writing for the 21st Century

ELECTED NATIONAL LEADERSHIP

• Chair, College Section, National Council of Teachers of English: 1998-2001.
• Chair, College Forum, National Council of Teachers of English: 1998-2001.
• Vice President, President, and Past President, Council of Writing Program Administrators: 1999-2005.
• Assistant Chair, Associate Chair, Chair, and Past Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication: 2001-2005.
• Vice-President, President-Elect, President, and Past President, National Council of Teachers of English: 2007-2009.