Department of English
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403
kblair@bgnet.bgsu.edu
419-372-8033

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Kris BlairDr. Kristine L. 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 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 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 The Writing Instructor, and numerous edited volumes. She has served as editor of Computers and Composition Online and has a new co-edited collection, Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice with Hampton Press (2009), in addition to a collaborative textbook project in development, CrossCurrents: Cultures, Communities, and Technologies. In 2004 and 2009, she was named the Outstanding Contributor to Graduate Education by the BGSU Graduate Student Senate, and in 2007 she received the Technology Innovator Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Committee on Computers and Composition. She is currently Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of BGSU's Faculty Senate.