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 ten scholarly books and two textbooks as well as over 65 articles and book chapters. Her latest volume, the edited collection Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon, was released in 2006. In that volume, she and other scholars examine the role of delivery in shaping (and mis-shaping) college composition--in location, in space, through faculty, and not least, with digital technologies. In July 2008, Delivering College Composition received the 2006-2007 Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators.

She serves on the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) VALUE project focused on electronic portfolios. She alsohas served on 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. Now in its fifth year, this coalition includes over 55 institutional partners from around the world. A collection of essays and research findings based on Coalition work, Electronic Portfolios 2.0, will be published in 2008. Not least, as President of the National Council of Teachers of English, she has focused on 21st literacies and ways of supporting them in schools and colleges across the country.

SCHOLARLY BOOKS

• Electronic Portfolios 2.0 (edited collection: 2008)
• 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

• "Learning Unplugged" (with Teddi Fishman). In Amy Kimme Hea, ed., Going Wireless. Forthcoming 2008: Hampton Press.
• "The Literacy Demands of Entering the University." In Leila Christenbury, Randy Bomer, and Peter Smagorinsky, eds., Handbook on Adolescent Literacy. Forthcoming 2008: Guilford.
• "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.