Research
Kerri Hauman, Stacy Kastner, and Alison Witte. Digital WPA: A Digital Writing Instruction Resource. WAC Clearinghouse, 2023.
DigitalWPA showcases a range of administrative and pedagogical approaches to creating digital writing curricula using data collected in 2018-19. The project has 6 exhibits that feature award-winning writing programs: Marquette University, the Ohio State University, Purdue University, Salt Lake Community College, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and University of Texas-El Paso. The project’s over 100-item repository contains digital writing assignments and other supplemental materials developed by the respective program administrators and faculty. This project was made possible with the support of a CCCC Research Grant.
Witte, Alison, Stacy Kastner, and Kerri Hauman. “Looking beyond the Writing Program: Institutional Allies to Support Professional Development in the Teaching of Digital Writing.” Utah State University Press, 2023.
This chapter presents selected findings from a research project where my co-researchers/co-authors and I visited 6 institutions to examine how the first-year writing program fit into and coordinated with the institution’s larger techno-ecology in order to support digital writing instruction.
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Feminist Connections: Rhetoric and Activism across Time, Space, and Place. University of Alabama Press. 2020.
Contributors to this volume highlight continuities in feminist rhetorical practices that are often invisible to scholars, obscured by time, new media, and wildly different cultural, political, and social contexts. Thus, this collection takes a nonchronological approach to the study of feminist rhetoric, grouping chapters by rhetorical practice rather than time, content, or choice of media.
Current Research Projects
Revising First-Year Seminars at Transylvania University
This is a work in progress that began with my 2021-2022 sabbatical work, which investigated the overlap between first-year seminar (FYS) programs/classes and first-year writing (FYW) programs, specifically focusing on evolving best practices for FYS and/or FYW in relation to small liberal arts colleges (SLACs) generally and Transylvania University (TU) specifically. This research sought answers to big questions like How can we best design FYS curricula that meet our students where they are? and How can we design FYS curricula—and faculty development to support it—that prepares students for the challenges of being a critical 21st-century citizen who can meaningfully contribute to their college community and to other communities they are or will be part of? In addition to lots of reading and writing about scholarship related to inclusive pedagogy and writing curricula, I conducted archival research to investigate the history of FYS at TU and convened and met with a working group of faculty, staff, and students to consider how TU might revise FYS and/or FYRS curricula.
Some outcomes of this work so far include:
- creation and implementation of a directed-self-placement-inspired process that allows students to elect to participate in Writing Partnership while enrolled in FYS
- digital pilot sections in FYS courses that incorporated podcast production
- a digital pilot section in FYRS that incorporated Virtual Reality research and production
Forthcoming
“Working toward Equitable Classrooms: Using WPE Faculty Development in the Small Liberal Arts College,” accepted for inclusion in the book Writing Pedagogy Education in Practice, which is currently under contract with the WAC Clearinghouse.
Events
Upcoming:
Co-presenter with Emily Goodman. “Framing Kentucky’s Queer Art History: Writing the Faulkner Morgan Archive into Wikipedia.” “We Have Always Been Here: Queer Art History for the Twenty-First Century” Session. SECAC. Cincinnati OH, October 2025.
Recent:
Co-presenter with Emily Goodman. “Digital Disruptions: Feminist Rhetorical Pedagogy and Archival Queering in Wikipedia Edit-a-thons.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. University of New Hampshire, July 2025.
Co-presenter with Julie Perino. “To Staci M. Perryman-Clark, Thanks for the WPA/WAC/DEI Integration for Faculty Development! –SLACs.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Baltimore MD, Apr. 2025.
Co-presenter with Olivia Fleming, Melissa Fortner, and Avery Tompkins. “Using Alternative Assessment Practices to Decenter Grades and Center Student Learning.” Pedagogicon. Eastern Kentucky University, May 2024.
“Ungrading and Power Structures: Reflecting on Compassion, Agency, and Privilege.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2023.
Co-presenter with Kremena Todorova, Julie Perino, & JJ Wallace. “Ongoing Revisions to a First-Year Seminar Program: Beginning by Building Students’ Digital Literacies through Podcasts and Virtual Reality.” Pedagogicon. Eastern Kentucky University, May 2023.
Selected Previous Publications
Hauman, Kerri and Emily Goodman. “WikiHope: Teaching Feminist Historiography through the (Re)Writing of Queer Narratives from Kentucky on Wikipedia.” Peitho vol. 27, no. 2, 2025, pp. 165-73.
“Writing Teachers for Twenty-First Century Writers: A Gap in Graduate Education.” Co-authors Stacy Kastner and Alison Witte. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture. 15.1 (Jan. 2015): 45-57.
“Cyberfeminists at Play: Lessons on Literacy and Activism from a Girls’ Computer Camp.” Co-authors Kristine Blair, Katherine Fredlund, Em Hurford, Stacy Kastner, and Alison Witte. Feminist Teacher 22.1 (2011): 43-59.
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