About Kerri Bright Flinchbaugh
I am a former high school English teacher who is currently the Assistant Director of East Carolina University's Writing Program while also working on a PhD in rhetoric, writing, and professional communication. As assistant director, I coordinate and facilitate faculty development on the various aspects of teaching and utilizing writing in courses across the disciplines, develop and organize programmatic assessment, and direct ECU's WAC Academy and Advanced Academy - a series of workshops fashioned after the National Writing Project model of professional development for university instructors from across the curriculum. I also serve on the professional development leadership team for the Tar River Writing Project, our local NWP site, and I am on the board of A Bright Light Fund for ovarian cancer research.
My research and academic interests include writing studies, writing center & program administration, identity theory, transfer of writing skills, and threshold concepts in composition across the disciplines. At this time, I am focusing on several academic projects, all focusing on some aspect of identity construction and identity work.
In addition to writing center research, I am also investigating the use of Content Curation Projects as forms of faculty professional development and support. Two enduring issues WPAs face is how to help faculty outside writing studies understand writing in their disciplines. At our university, we have turned to Content Curation Projects as an avenue for faculty to reconsider and engage with their discipline’s writing and thinking processes in order to become empowered to articulate common rhetorical moves and situations familiar to academic “insiders.” While these multimodal projects are shared on our program’s website, offering student writers and writing instructors an “insider” peek into others’ worlds of writing, we also see them as identity artifacts, which can be analyzed to reveal what identities each is shaping of and for themselves, how these identities are constructed, and how they fit into the broader contexts of their disciplines and the university.
I am a self-identified nerd who admittedly went to several midnight Harry Potter release parties. (Yes, I did dress as Luna Lovegood for one, but who didn't?) I enjoy bad TV and good music, and I am not a great cook. My favorite part of the day is coming home each evening to my husband and son.
My research and academic interests include writing studies, writing center & program administration, identity theory, transfer of writing skills, and threshold concepts in composition across the disciplines. At this time, I am focusing on several academic projects, all focusing on some aspect of identity construction and identity work.
In addition to writing center research, I am also investigating the use of Content Curation Projects as forms of faculty professional development and support. Two enduring issues WPAs face is how to help faculty outside writing studies understand writing in their disciplines. At our university, we have turned to Content Curation Projects as an avenue for faculty to reconsider and engage with their discipline’s writing and thinking processes in order to become empowered to articulate common rhetorical moves and situations familiar to academic “insiders.” While these multimodal projects are shared on our program’s website, offering student writers and writing instructors an “insider” peek into others’ worlds of writing, we also see them as identity artifacts, which can be analyzed to reveal what identities each is shaping of and for themselves, how these identities are constructed, and how they fit into the broader contexts of their disciplines and the university.
I am a self-identified nerd who admittedly went to several midnight Harry Potter release parties. (Yes, I did dress as Luna Lovegood for one, but who didn't?) I enjoy bad TV and good music, and I am not a great cook. My favorite part of the day is coming home each evening to my husband and son.
Kerri Bright Flinchbaugh
1010 Joyner Library
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
(252)737-1687
[email protected]
1010 Joyner Library
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858
(252)737-1687
[email protected]
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