June 15-19 2009
Instructor
Kay Halasek is Associate Professor of English and Vice Chair for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies at Ohio State University. An OhioWINS and EECAP site director since 2002, she has been actively involved in state English language arts K-12 initiatives on proficiency testing, writing expectations, and teacher preparation and professional development since 1997. A recipient of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award (for A Pedagogy of Possibility: Bakhtinian Perspectives on Composition Studies, 2000), Kay is an active scholar in composition theory and pedagogy. She is primarily interested in composition history, contemporary composition theory, and issues related to the transition from high school to first-year college writing. Co-editor of Landmark Essays on Basic Writing (2001) and Writing Lives/Reading Communities (2000) and co-author of A Brief Guide to Basic Writing (1993), she continues to engage questions of pedagogy and theory in all of her work. Her most recent work-in-progress, Writing as Action, is a textbook that illustrates to students the critical, social, and political power of discourse. Kay resides in Columbus.