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, developing new courses, 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. During the past year, she has also been working with FSU graduate students Emily Dowd, Tamara Francis, and Lisa Colletti on a CCCC-sponsored research grant, "'The Things They Carried': A Synthesis of Research on Transfer in College Composition."

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.

She has served on the Steering Committee of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress, and she is the lead researcher for "The Portraits of Composition" study of writing. With Barbara Cambridge and Darren Cambridge, she leads the Inter/National Coalition on Electronic Portfolio Research. Now in its fourth year, this coalition includes over 45 institutional partners from around the world. A collection of essays and research findings based on Coalition work will be published in 2008, and Florida State University will host the February 2008 meeting of the Coalition. Not least, as President-Elect of the National Council of Teachers of English, she is program chair for the 2007 NCTE convention in New York City, with the convention theme "Mapping Diverse Literacies for the Twenty-first Century: Opportunities, Challenges, New Directions."

SCHOLARLY BOOKS

• 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 2007: 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.
• Electronic Portfolios 2.0: Emergent Findings and Shared Questions (with Darren Cambridge and Barbara Cambridge). Forthcoming 2008: Stylus Press.

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.