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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

CURRENT PROJECTS

ELECTED NATIONAL LEADERSHIP