Krista Kennedy

Dept. of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, & Composition

Syracuse University, College of Arts & Sciences
krista01@syr.edu | kristakennedy.net

Professional Summary
Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric 2016 - present
Syracuse University
• Affiliated Faculty, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute 2019 - present
• Director of the Writing Major and Minor 2016 - 2018

Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric 2009 - 2016

Syracuse University
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Writing Studies 2004 - 2009
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Rhetoric and Writing 2002 - 2004
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Education
Ph.D in Rhetoric, Scientific, & Technical Communication 2009
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
M.A., Professional & Technical Writing 2004
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
B.A., English, Professional & Technical Writing 2002
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

Research
Single Semester Research Leave, Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences.
Spring 2019.

Syracuse University Internal Grant Program seed funding for “‘Invisibilized Hearing’: The
Invisibility and Secrecy of Deafness in Hearing Aid Advertisements.” $1,000 (maximum
award). 2015.

Kairos Graduate and Adjunct Award for Research. National award “given to a person
whose research and scholarship is already excellent and/or also shows future promise
for having an impact on the field of digital rhetoric.” 2009.

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Gerard A. Hauser Graduate Scholarship, Rhetoric Society of America Conference.

2006.

Veritas Software Fellowship, Industrial Affiliates Program, University of Minnesota

Department of Rhetoric, Scientific, & Technical Communication. 2004-2005.

Teaching
Excellence in Graduate Education Award, Syracuse University Graduate School. 2019.

James I. Brown Teaching Excellence Award, University of Minnesota Department of

Rhetoric, Scientific, and Technical Communication. 2006-2007.

Teaching With Technology Award, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. (University-

wide.) Category: Best Practices. With Charles Anderson. Nov. 7, 2003.

Research
Book
Kennedy, Krista. Textual Curation: Authorial Agency in Wikipedia and the Chambers’
Cyclopædia. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. 2016.

Peer-Reviewed Articles
Kennedy, Krista. “Designing for Human-Machine Collaboration: Smart Hearing Aids as
Wearable Technologies.” Special issue on Communication Design of Wearable
Technologies in Health and Medicine. Eds. Catherine Gouge and John Jones.
Communication Design Quarterly 5(4) (Dec. 2017). 40-51.

Kennedy, Krista. “Textual Curation.” Computers and Composition 40 (June 2016).

175-189.

Kennedy, Krista. “The Daw and the Honeybee: Originality and Anxiety in the 1728
Chambers’ Cyclopædia.” College English 76.1 (Sept. 2013). 35-58.

Journal Special Issues

Howard, Rebecca Moore and Krista Kennedy. Special Issue on Western Cultures of
Intellectual Property. College English 75.5 (May 2013).

• Kennedy, Krista and Rebecca Moore Howard. “Introduction to the Special Issue
on Western Cultures of Intellectual Property.” College English 75.5 (May 2013).
461-469.

Peer-Reviewed Chapters
Kennedy, Krista and Noah Wilson. “The Banality of Digital Aggression: Algorithmic Data
Surveillance in Medical Wearables.” Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online
Aggression, Hate Speech, and Harassment. Eds. Jessica Reyman and Erika Sparby.
New York: Routledge. In press, publication expected 2020.

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Tschider, Charlotte A. and Krista Kennedy. “Legal Issues in Cybernetics and Robotics.”
The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines. Ed. Theodore F. Claypoole.
American Bar Association. In press, publication expected 2019.

Kennedy, Krista, and Derek Mueller. “Every Mad Scientist Needs a Tower: Blogs as
Research and Pedagogy Laboratories for Graduate Students.” Metamorphosis: The
Effects of Professional Development on Graduate Students. Eds. Andrea Davis and
Susan Webb. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2017. 139-154.

Kennedy, Krista, and Seth Long. “The Trees Within the Forest: Extracting, Coding, and
Visualizing Subjective Data in Authorship Studies.” Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities,
ed. Bill Hart-Davidson and Jim Ridolfo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
140-151.
• Collection received the 2016 Computers & Composition Distinguished Book Award.

Kennedy, Krista, and Rebecca Moore Howard. “Collaborative Pedagogy in the Digital
Age.” A Guide to Composition Pedagogies. (2nd edition.) Eds. Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper
Taggart, Kurt Schick, and H. Brooke Hessler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
37-54.

Kennedy, Krista, Georges Lamoine and Cécile Révauger. (Invited.) “Ephraim

Chambers.” Le Monde Maçonnique des Lumiéres (Europe-Amériques et Colonies).
[The World of Freemasonry in the Enlightenment (Europe, Americas, and Colonies.)]
Eds. Cécile Révauger and Charles Porset. Paris: Editions Honoré Champion, 2013.
728-730.

Kennedy, Krista. “Textual Machinery: Authorial Agency and Bot-Written Texts in

Wikipedia.” The Responsibilities of Rhetoric. Eds. Michelle Smith & Barbara Warnick.
Waveland Press, 2009. 303-309.

Conference Proceedings
Canzonetta, Jordan, Krista Kennedy, Charlotte Tschider, and Noah Wilson. “The Politics
of Algorithms: Ethical Algorithmic Data Collection in Medical and Educational Contexts.”
Selected Papers of Internet Research. AoIR 2018: The 19th Annual Conference of the
Association of Internet Researchers. Montréal, Canada. In press, publication expected
2019.

Amidon, Tim, Laura Arduser, Catherine Gouge, Les Hutchinson, John Jones, Natasha
Jones, Krista Kennedy, Tiffany Lipsey, Kristen Moore, Maria Novotny, and Candice A.
Welhausen. “Examining Usability in the Communication Design of Health Wearables.”
Extended abstract. Proceedings of ACM SIGDOC Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
Canada. Aug. 2017 (SIGDOC’17), 2 pages. 2017.

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Armfield, Dawn, Krista Kennedy, and Ann Hill Duin. “The Roles of Networked Learning,
Collaboration, and Connectedness in the Classroom.” Extended abstract. Proceedings
of the IEEE Professional Communication Society. Piscataway, NJ: 2014. 1-2.

Kennedy, Krista. “Methodological Issues Relevant to the Study of Authorship in

Wikipedia.”Conference Proceedings of New Research for New Media 2005: New Media
Research @ UMN. September 2005. 63-68.

Forum Contributions and Review Essays

Kennedy, Krista. (Invited for inaugural forum.) “The Anxiety of Automation: Attending to
the Deep History of Automated Entities.” Explorations in Media Ecology 16(2-3), 2017.
259-262.

Kennedy, Krista. (Invited for inaugural issue.) “Google Faces Legal Challenges in its
Effort to Digitize University Library Contents.” Major Intellectual Property Developments
for Scholars of Composition and Communication. CCCC Intellectual Property
Committee. NCTE: Urbana, IL. Available at http://www.ncte.org/cccc/committees/ip/
2005developments. 2006.

Gurak, Laura J., Gretchen Haas, Laurie Johnson, Krista Kennedy, and Jessica Reyman.
“Copyright, Ownership, and Digital Media: A Trilogy.” Reviews of Lessig, Lawrence, Free
Culture (Penguin Press, 2004); Fisher, William, Promises to Keep (Stanford UP, 2004);
and Vaidhyanathan, Siva, The Anarchist in the Library (Basic Books, 2004). Reviewed in
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology. May 2005. 687-708.

Creative Nonfiction
Kennedy, Krista. “Pools, or, On Being Seen Deaf.” Tendon Magazine. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine. In press, forthcoming
2019.

Kennedy, Krista. “Hearing.” Quills and Pixels. Little Rock: University of Arkansas at Little
Rock, 2003. 38.

Creative Publications (selected)

Kennedy, Krista. “Tree of 40 Fruits in Full Bloom,” original photograph
reproduced in HW Yung, KM Ho, YK Ho, KH Tam, WH Wong, New Senior
Secondary Mastering Biology, 2nd ed. Hong Kong SAR, China: Oxford University
Press. English and Chinese editions, print and digital formats. Forthcoming 2020.

Kennedy, Krista. “Blowtorch, Copper, Basement,” original photograph reproduced

in Howard, Rebecca Moore, Writing Matters, 3rd ed. New York: McGraw Hill,
2017. 639.

Kennedy, Krista. “Quilt Made by My Momo,” original photograph reproduced in

Howard, Rebecca Moore, Writing Matters, 3rd ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 2017.
519.

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Kennedy, Krista. “Muddy Water Always Makes Me Feel at Home,” original photograph
reproduced in Green, Amy, “Neighboring Residents Take Legal Action After Sinkhole at
Fertilizer Plant.” WGCU/NPR. Sept. 26, 2016

Kennedy, Krista. “Exit,” original photograph reproduced in Vibert, Frank and Gunnar
Beck, “The Seven Days of Brexit: How a Leave Government Could Bypass Article 50.”
Politics and Policy Blog. The London School of Economics and Political Science. June
15, 2016.

Kennedy, Krista. “Water Power Park,” original photograph reproduced in Global

Energy Issues MOOC, MINES ParisTech (École Nationale Supérieure des Mines
de Paris). Spring 2016.

Kennedy, Krista. “Half Tamale Spread and a Shiner Bock,” original photograph
reproduced in Alexander, Kevin and Liz Childers, “Are These the 11 Best BBQ
Cities in America?” Thrillist, Feb. 15, 2015 and Yahoo Food, Feb. 18, 2015.

Kennedy, Krista. “Making Spicy Fried Chicken on Christmas Eve,” original

photograph reproduced in Thomson, Julie R., “How to Season, Clean, and Care
For a Cast Iron Skillet Like a Pro.” The Huffington Post. Feb. 11, 2015.

Kennedy, Krista. “Packing Up an Identity,” original photograph reproduced in

Gerke, Markus, “Teaching Gender and Feminism as a Male-Identified Instructor.”
TheSocietyPages.org. Minneapolis, MN: The University of Minnesota and W.W.
Norton & Company, Inc., Jan. 10-17, 2014.

Kennedy, Krista. “Summertime,” original photograph reproduced in Doll, Jen,

“How to Enthusiastically Prepare for Summer 2013.” The Wire, news blog of The
Atlantic. May 16, 2013.

Kennedy, Krista. “The Old Bailey, London,” original photograph reproduced in

“Bragging Investment Manager Loses £1.7 Bonus in High Court.” The London
Evening Standard. Dec. 10, 2012.

Kennedy, Krista. “The John Wayne Hockey Movie: Sports World vs. Underworld,”
original photograph reproduced in Cole, Stephen, Triple Overtime. New York:
Simon & Schuster, 2012. 95.

Kennedy, Krista. “Little House Replica,” original photograph reproduced in

• Taylor, Danielle, “Homeward Bound.” Log Home Living, June 2012. 88.
• “Historic Cabins Across the Country.” Country’s Best Log Homes Presents
Cozy Cabins, 2010. 26.

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Kennedy, Krista. “Snoot!,” original photograph reproduced in Del Signore, John,

“Rat Bites Prisoner’s Penis, Lawsuit (and Nightmares) Ensue.” Gothamist. Jan.
14, 2011.

Kennedy, Krista. “Bleakness,” original photograph reproduced in Friedrich, Alex,

“U-Minnesota System to Turn Down the Power Over the Holidays.” Minnesota
Public Radio (MPR). Nov. 11, 2010.

Kennedy, Krista. “Pasadena Playhouse,” original photograph reproduced in

Devall, Cheryl, “Pasadena Playhouse May Reorganize Under Bankruptcy.”
Southern California Public Radio 89.3. KPCC. May 11, 2010.

Kennedy, Krista,”Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden,” original photographed

reproduced in “Beverly Cleary Continues to Delight.” The City of Portland,
Oregon (portlandoregon.gov). Sept. 28, 2009.

Journalism
More than 20 publications inThe Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (2002), UALR Forum
(2001), Active Years Magazine (1994-2002), Arkansas Catholic Newsweekly
(1993-1994), and Arkansas Women’s Journal (1993-1995).

In Progress
Books
Kennedy, Krista. Attuning. Creative nonfiction monograph. 1/3 complete.

Tschider, Charlotte and Krista Kennedy. Intelligent Health: The New Ethics of Healthcare
Technology. Scholarly monograph. In progress.

Articles
Kennedy, Krista. “‘Invisibilized Hearing’: Deafness, Human/Machine Collaboration, and
Passing.”

Tschider, Charlotte, Krista Kennedy, and Noah Wilson. “The International Regulatory
Impasse of AI-Enabled Devices.” Proposal accepted for inclusion in Legal, Social, and
Ethical Perspectives on Health and Technology, Savoie Mont Blanc University Press
and LEXTENSO Editions. In progress.

Kennedy, Krista, Charlotte Tschider, and Noah Wilson. “Balancing the Halo: Ethical
Patient Communication of Algorithmic Data Collection in Medical Devices” In progress.

Special Journal Issue

Kennedy, Krista and Jenell Johnson. Special issue on Disability, (In)Visibility, and
Resistance. Rhetoric Society Quarterly. (Forthcoming Summer 2020).

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Intellectual Property, Digital Texts, and Project Management

Intellectual Property Consultant and Production Coordinator for Feinberg, Leslie, Stone
Butch Blues 20th Anniversary Author’s Edition. Open edition published in on-demand
and digital formats. 2012-2015.

Digital Texts Consultant, Intuit Innovation Lab. Provided platform recommendations,

assessment, and textual resources for Cook, Scott, “The Contribution Revolution,”
Harvard Business Review Oct. 2008 and related wiki.

Digital Texts Consultant and Interim Project Manager, “The Efficacy of Proactive
Personal Email Support as an Addition to Minnesota’s Quitplan.com Stop-Smoking
Website.” Principle Investigator: Larry An, UMN Medical School, Division of General
Internal Medicine. MPAAT (Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco) Grant,
$340,000 over three years. 2006.

Editorial Assistant for Gross, Alan and Laura Gurak, “The State of Rhetoric of Science
and Technology,” Technical Communication Quarterly 14.3 (Summer 2005).

Editing Consultant for Halter, Deborah, The Papal ‘No’: A Comprehensive Guide to the
Vatican’s Refusal of Women’s Ordination, Crossroad Publishing Company, 2004. First
Place, Gender Issues, 2005 Catholic Press Awards.

Archival Work
Berger Hearing Aid Museum and Archive, Kent State University
Bernard Becker Medical Library Archives, Washington University
Bodleian Library
The British Library
James Ford Bell Collection, University of Minnesota
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, United Grand Lodge of England, London
New College Library, Oxford University

Presentations
Invited Lectures
Penn State Communication Arts & Sciences Summer Symposium on “Theorizing
Communication in a Digital Age.” June 13-14, 2017.
• Texts Less Visible. July 13, 2017
• On Archival Work in Digital Communication and Becoming Archival Ourselves.
June 14, 2017.

Automated Authorship. Featured Ignite Talk. ACM-SIGDOC. Kemmy Business School,

University of Limerick, Ireland. July 17, 2015.

Textual Machinery. Digital panel on “Code Work: Exploring Digital Studies Through
Code.” University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Studies. April 15, 2015.

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International Conferences
Balancing the Halo: Ethical Patient Communication of Algorithmic Data Collection in
Medical Devices. With Charlotte Tschider and Noah Wilson. Association of Internet
Researchers. Montréal, Quebec, Canada. October 12, 2018.

Collective Listening: Smart Hearing Aids as Wearable Technologies. Featured Panel on

“Usability in Communication Design.” ACM-SIGDOC. Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada. August 13, 2017.

Digital Hearing Aids as Wearables. Association of Internet Researchers. Humboldt-

Universität zu Berlin, Germany. October 7, 2016.

Teaching Content Strategy with Large-Scale, Collaborative Websites. International

Professional Communication Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. October 14, 2014.

“The Book ’Tis Not Mine”: Ephraim Chambers and the Intellectual Commons. Society for
the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Minneapolis, MN. July 12, 2007.

National Conferences
Rhetorical Agency, Pervasive Surveillance, and Medical Wearables. Rhetoric Society of
America. Minneapolis, MN. June 2, 2018.

‘Invisibilized Hearing’: Deafness, Assistive Technologies, and Rhetorical Invisibility.

Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. June 1, 2018.

Curation as a Rhetorical Act. Digital Humanities Supersession. Rhetoric Society of

America. Atlanta, GA. May 29, 2016.

Machine Rhetorics and Rhetorical Agency. Machine Rhetorics Supersession. Rhetoric

Society of America. San Antonio, TX. May 25, 2014.

Freemasonry, Class, and Intellectual Democracy in the Chambers’ Cyclopædia.

Rhetoric Society of America. Philadelphia, PA. May 27, 2012.

The Daw and the Honeybee: Anxiety and Piracy in the 1728 Chambers’ Cyclopædia.
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. April 8, 2011.

Automated Curation: Bot-Written Texts and Rhetorical Agency in Wikipedia. Association

of Teachers of Technical Writing. Atlanta, GA. April 6, 2011.

Eighteenth Century Crowdsourcing. Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May

30, 2010.

Disturbances in the Force: Vandalism and Readerly Agency in Wikipedia. Computers

and Writing. Purdue University. May 21, 2010.

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Re-writing the Author: Textual Curation and Ownership in Wikis. Conference on College
Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 13, 2009.

Chronicling the 35W Bridge Collapse with Classroom Wikis. Poster session, with Lee-
Ann Kastman Breuch. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. San Francisco, CA.
March 11, 2009.

Writing Machines: Authorial Agency and Bot-Written Texts in Wikipedia. Rhetoric Society
of America. Seattle, WA. May 25, 2008.

Writing Trust: Authority and Trust in Wikipedia. Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Little Rock,
AR. Oct. 5, 2007.

Genette’s Poetics of Transtextuality as a Framework for Understanding Authorship in

Blogs. Computers and Writing. Detroit, MI. May 18, 2007.

Inspiration, Imitation, Adaptation: Hellenic Conceptions of Originality. American Society

for the History of Rhetoric, NCA. San Antonio, TX. Nov. 18, 2006.

“What Does It Matter Who Is Speaking?”: Situational Authorship in Wikis. Originality,

Imitation, and Plagiarism: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference. University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. Sept. 23, 2005.

Methodological Issues Relevant to the Study of Authorship in Wikipedia. New Media

Research @ UMN: an Interdisciplinary Conference on New Media and Internet Studies.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Sept. 16, 2005.

The Author and the Commons: Authorship in Blog Environments. Conference on

College Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 18, 2005.

National Workshops
Preparing for the Job Market. With Kenny Fountain, Jordynn Jack, Paul Strob, and
Bradford Vivian. Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May 30, 2010.

Blogging and Academics. With Scott Rogers and Jeff Ward. Workshop on "U Blog: A
Practical Introduction to Using Weblogs for the Classroom and Research." Conference
on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio, TX. March 24, 2004.

Regional Conferences
Budgeting for Accessibility at Academic Conferences. Western States Communication
Association. Feb. 20, 2017.

Contemplating the Classroom. With Barbara L'Eplattenier. South Central MLA

Conference. Hot Springs, AR. Nov. 1, 2003

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Interdisciplinary Campus Colloquia

Organizer and speaker, Archival Methods and Ethics Colloquium. With Roslyn Knutson
(University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Kendall Phillips (CRS), Genevieve García de
Müeller (WRT), and Colleen Theisen (SU Libraries). Writing Studies, Rhetoric, &
Composition and English, Syracuse University. Sept. 26, 2018.

Organizer and speaker, Disciplinary Perspectives on Teaching ‘Good Writing.’

Roundtable discussion with faculty from Whitman School of Management, the iSchool,
Falk, and Engineering & Computer Science. Reimagining Student Writers series,
Syracuse University Writing Program. Feb. 25, 2016.

Crowdsourced Encyclopedias. Tolley Faculty Dinner Forum: Reflections on Digital

Culture(s). Syracuse University, College of Arts & Sciences. Feb 12, 2013.

Bot-Written Texts in Wikipedia. New Media Breakfast Series. University of Minnesota

Institute for New Media Studies. April 2, 2009.

Authorship and Ownership in Wikipedia. Networks and Neighborhoods in CyberSpace

Symposium. Office of the Vice President for Research, MN Futures Program, and the
University of Minnesota Digital Technology Center. Feb. 11, 2008.

Corporate Contributions to the Commons via Blog and Wiki Environments. UMN
Industrial Affiliates Program Annual Colloquium. May 16, 2005.

Blogumentary Panelist. UMN Institute for New Media Studies. Feb. 3, 2005.

Into the Blogosphere: New Models of Research and Publication with Blogs. With Laura
Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. UMN
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series. Nov. 29, 2004.

Teaching
Courses Taught at Syracuse University
Graduate Courses
Rhetoric, Writing, & Technologies (CCR 633).
Independent Study, Rhetorical Invention (CCR 690).
Techne to DIY: Rhetorics of Craft (CCR 711).
Authorship Studies (CCR 747).
Professional & Technical Writing in the Digital Age (CCR 760).

Graduate/Undergraduate Courses
Technical Documentation and Usability (WRT 419/619). Hybrid.
Emerging Technologies in PTW (WRT 427/627). Hybrid.
Information Design (WRT 437/637). Hybrid.

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Undergraduate Courses
Freshman Forum (CAS 101). Traditional.
Advanced Argumentative Writing (WRT 255). Traditional
Digital Writing (WRT 302). Traditional.
Professional Writing (WRT 307). Online and traditional.
Rhetoric and Robots (WRT 426). Traditional.
Digital Identities (WRT 426). Hybrid.
Senior Research Seminar I/II (WRT 495/496). Traditional.

Courses Taught at the University of Minnesota

Scientific & Technical Presentations.Traditional.
Internet Tools and Issues. Online.
Technical & Professional Writing.Traditional and Online.
Emerging Technologies in Scientific & Technical Communication. Online.

Courses Taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Composition I. Online pilot.
Introduction to Nonfiction. Teaching Assistant. Online.
Introduction to Astronomy & Introduction to Astronomy Lab. Teaching Assistant. Online.

Invited Classroom Lectures

Archival Methods and Research Project Management. Invited Skype session, WRIT
8011: Research Methods taught by Laura Gurak, University of Minnesota Department of
Writing Studies. Nov. 28, 2016.

Comparative Research in Authorship Studies. CCR 720: Authorship Studies taught by

Rebecca Moore Howard, Composition and Cultural Rhetorics, SU. Oct. 20, 2009.

Wikis and Digital Authorship. MLS 5100: A Critical Look at the Internet taught by John
Logie, University of Minnesota Department of Writing Studies. July 8, 2008.

Wikipedia and Wikiality. WRT 3401: Internet Tools and Issues taught by Miranda Brady,
University of Minnesota Department of Rhetoric, Scientific, and Technical
Communication. Oct. 8, 2007.

Teaching Digital Composition with Blogs. CL 5410: Teaching Digital Writing taught by
Richard Beach, University of Minnesota Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Sept.
25, 2007.

Finding Your Dissertation Topic. RHET 8012: Applied Research Methods in Scientific
and Technical Communication taught by Laura Gurak, University of Minnesota
Department of Rhetoric, Scientific, and Technical Communication. Feb. 5, 2007.

Weblogs and Wikis in the Classroom. With Clancy Ratliff. Faculty Fellowship Program,
UMN Digital Media Center. Nov. 16, 2005 and Feb. 10, 2005.

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WebVet panelist. Interactive Distributed Learning Certification course taught by Aimee

Colmery Dixon, UALR Scholarly Technologies and Resources office in association with
the UALR Provost’s Office. Sept 23, 2003 and Feb. 25, 2004.

Graduate Advising
Dissertation Committees
Chair:
Jordan Canzonetta, 2019, passed with distinction.
Michael J. Frasciello, 2015.
Jason Markins, in progress
Noah Wilson, in progress

Core Committee
Seth Long, 2015, passed with distinction.
• 2015 American Society for the History of Rhetoric Dissertation Award Winner
Justin Lewis, 2013.
Christine Geyer, 2013.
Brett Keegan, in progress
C.C. Hendricks, in progress

Reader:
Lindsey Bannister, 2017.
A.V. Luce, 2017.
W. Kurt Stavenhagen, 2015.
Madeline Dahlke Yonker, 2011.

Qualifying Exams Committees

Chair:
Noah Wilson, 2019, passed with distinction.
Jason Markins, 2017
Jordan Canzonetta, 2017, passed with distinction.
Michael J. Frasciello, 2012
Justin Lewis, 2011, passed with distinction.

Committee Member:
Jana Rosinski, 2018
Brett Keegan, 2018, passed with distinction.
C.C. Hendricks, 2017, passed with distinction.
Geghard Arakelian, 2016
Seth Long, 2014
Rachel Shapiro, 2012
A.V. Luce, 2011

Masters Thesis Committees

Laura Ann McGrath, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. 2012

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Honors Thesis Committees

Mira Kohli, School of Information Studies, 2018

Curriculum Design & Support

Presented more than 20 professional development workshops and colloquia on
teaching in the Writing major, 2009-present
Curriculum design for PTW Minor (as chair of Major/Minor committee), 2018
Development of WRT Upper-Division Handbook, 2017-2018
Curriculum redesign of WRT 302: Digital Writing, 2014-15
Chair, Professional & Technical Writing Certificate Feasibility Study Committee, 2012
Chair, Writing About Science Course Development Subcommittee, 2012
Curriculum design of Writing Major Core (as co-chair and member of Major/Minor
Committee), 2010-12
Curriculum design and pilots of Professional & Technical Writing courses, 2010-12
WRT 419: Technical Documentation & Usability
WRT 427: Emerging Technologies in Professional & Technical Writing
WRT 437: Information Design
Curriculum design and pilot of WRT 426: Digital Identities, 2011
Curriculum redesign and implementation of WRT 307: Professional Writing, 2009-2011.

Feasibility Studies and Reports

Kennedy, Krista. “Proposed Creation of a Minor in Professional and Technical Writing.”
Final report. Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition, Syracuse
University, 2018. 5 pages.

Kennedy, Krista, Carol Faulkner, Kevan Edwards, Mathew Maye, Kandice Salomone,
Naomi Shanguhyia, and Jeremy Sloane. “Educational Excellence Subcommittee
Strategic Planning Recommendation Report.” College of Arts & Sciences, Syracuse
University. 2017. 25 pages.

Kennedy, Krista, George Rhinehart and Michael J. Frasciello. “Proposed Creation of a

Certificate of Advanced Study in Professional and Technical Writing.” Final Report. The
Writing Program, Syracuse University. 2012. 15 pages.

Service
National
ACM-SIGDOC
• Proposal Reviewer, Student Research Competition, 2017

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing

• Proposal Reviewer, ATTW at MLA, 2012
• Committee on Research, 2009-2011

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Conference on College Composition & Communication

• Appointed Member, Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication
Committee, 2012
• Co-Chair, Blogging Special Interest Group, 2005

Rhetoric Society of America

• Director of Event Sponsorships and Advertising, 2019-present
• Appointed Member, Book Award Committee, 2018
• Appointed Member, 2014 Conference Advisory Committee, 2012-2014
• Conference Proposal Reviewer, 2013, 2015, 2017
• Panel Chair, 2012, 2014, 2018

Invited Reviewer
• College Composition and Communication
• College English
• Journal of Business and Technical Communication
• Journal of Writing Research
• Research in the Teaching of English
• Rhetoric Society Quarterly
• McGraw-Hill
• Northern Illinois University Research & Artistry Awards Program
• SAGE Publishing
• Southern Illinois University Press
• University of Alabama Press
• University of Minnesota Blog Collective
• University of South Carolina Press

Promotion and Tenure Reviewer

• External reviewer for tenure and promotion case (doctoral institution), 2018.

University
Syracuse University
Member, Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Open Access. 2019-2020.
Member, Humanities Council, 2017-2018.
Member, Arts & Sciences Strategic Planning Steering Committee. 2017.
• Chair, Educational Excellence Subcommittee
Lower-Division Advisor. College of Arts and Sciences. 2009-2011.

University of Minnesota
Member, College of Agriculture, Food Science, & Environmental Studies Technology
Fees Policy Committee. 2006.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Mentor, Adult Returning Student Mentorship Program, 2003-2004.

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Departmental
Syracuse University
Member, Major/Minor Committee, 2009-2013, 2015-2016, 2018-2019.
Member, HASTAC Selection Committee, 2018 - present.
Chair, Major/Minor Committee, 2016-2018.
Member, Qualifying Exams Assessment Committee, 2012, 2015-2018.
Chair, Promotion & Tenure Committee, 2017.
Member, Third Year Review Committee, 2017, 2019.
Judge, Carol Lipson Outstanding Major Award, 2017, 2018.
Chair, Professional & Technical Writing/Rhetoric of Science Search, 2016.
Chair, Senior Lecturer in Professional & Technical Writing Search, 2016.
Member, Graduate Committee, 2013-2015.
Member, Search Committee, 2013-14.
Member, Department Chair Search Committee, 2012.
Co-Chair, Major/Minor Committee, 2011-2012.
Founding Faculty Sponsor, SU Rhetoric Society of America chapter. 2011-2016.
Mentor, Future Professoriate Program. Syracuse Writing Program. 2009-present.

University of Minnesota
Founding Member, Committee on Graduate Student Community Development.
2007-2008.
Member, Falwell Hall Renovation Planning Committee. 2007-2008.
Chair, Graduate Technology Fees Committee. 2005-2007 (reappointed).

Public Engagement
Quoted in Vanno, Phillip A. “As Texting Gains, Many See Quality of Writing Begin to
Wane.” IBOPE Insider, March 2012. I provided the contrarian opinion that writing quality
is not impacted by technological shifts.

Quoted in LaPeer, Heather, “All Inclusive: The Burton Blatt Institute advocates for the
under-represented disabled.” The Student Voice, Dec. 5, 2011. Spotlighted intersections
of disability and new media.

Curator and MC, “Land and Labor: 3 Voices,” featuring Janine DeBaise, Steve Himmer,
and Minnie Bruce Pratt. Nonfiction Reading Series, SU Writing Program. July 21, 2011.
Held at SparkyTown in the Hawley-Green historic district of Syracuse.

Industry Positions
Business Development Associate, United Parcel Service, MidSouth District, 1995 –
2002. Managed annual business plan of $11-16 million; provided personal point-of-
contact for shippers generating $5 million+ in annual revenue; coordinated district
initiatives involving 40+ Account Executives in three states; served as District Liaison to
Attorney General’s office, Better Business Bureau, and corporate legal offices.

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Professional Memberships
Association of Internet Researchers
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Rhetoric Society of America
Society for the History of Technology

References
Available upon request.

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