Kelly Blewett

Visiting Assistant Professor, English
Writing Program Director
765-973-8637
Whitewater Hall 280
keblewet@iu.edu
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Education

• PhD – English and Comparative Literature (concentration Rhetoric and Composition), University of Cincinnati, 2018
• MA – English, University of Louisville, 2010
• BA – Philosophy, Miami University of Ohio, 2005, Magna cum Laude

Teaching Interests

college writing (all levels), graduate composition studies

Research Interests

composition theory and pedagogy, teacher feedback, reading

Recent/Selected Publications/Presentations

Publications

• Forthcoming: “Strangers on Their Own Campus: Listening across Difference in Qualitative Research.” With student writer Tyler S. On Teacher Neutrality: Politics, Praxis, and Performativity, edited by Daniel P. Richards, Utah State University Press, 2019.
• “Editing as Inclusion Activism.” With Christina LaVecchia, Laura Micciche, and Janine Morris. College English, vol. 82, no. 4, 2019, pp. 273-96.
• “Conceptions of Work in First-Year Writing: A Case Study.” Journal of College Literacy and Learning, vol. 45, 2019, pp. 41-53.
• “Review Essay: In Defense of Unruliness: Five Books on Reading.” College English, vol. 80, no. 3, 2018, pp. 297-307.

Presentations

• Forthcoming: “Number versus Letter: Grade Presentation in Learning Management Software.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, March 2020.
• “Working with or Avoiding Troublesome Knowledge in the Writing Classroom: A Case Study.” Watson Conference, Louisville, October 2018.
• “‘I was accepting’: Student’s Emotional Labor During the Reception of Feedback.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City, March 2018.