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Jessie Borgman, Chair
Jessie Borgman, Chair
Jessie Borgman has taught both face-to-face and online since 2009. She has published several articles and book chapters and has presented at conferences including, CCCCs, C&W, and TYCA. She is the co-winner of the Computers and Composition 2023-2024 Charles Moran award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field. She has served on the CCCC OWI Standing Group in multiple capacities and served as founding secretary for the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE). Her research interests include online writing instruction, instructional design, content strategy, user experience, two-year colleges, and writing program administration. She is an instructor in the Writers' Studio at Arizona State University. She is the co-author of the WAC Clearinghouse PARS (personal, accessible, responsive, strategic) trilogy of books, of which the first book won the 2020 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book award. She is the co-creator of The Online Writing Instruction Community resources website: www.owicommunity.org
Kirsten Schwartz, Associate Chair
Kirsten Schwartz, Associate Chair
Kirsten Schwartz serves as a lecturer at San José State University and has been teaching writing in person and online since 2013. Her curiosity about online pedagogy began when she was a student in her second online class; her first online class was rather lackluster with simply reading, posting, and responding in the written word, but her second class presented a multimodal approach with video components that highlighted for her the possibilities of online learning. Since 2020, Kirsten has been teaching solely online both synchronously and asynchronously and is now an avid consumer of all online pedagogy research that she can get her hands on! Kirsten’s research interests lie with online instruction, constructive peer feedback, instructional design, and collaborative learning. She has presented at numerous conferences, including CCCCs, USF Adjunct Rhetoric Conference, YCR, and UC Merced Interdisciplinary Trauma-Informed Teaching Symposium. She has served on the board for the YRC (2019-2021) and was the recipient of the Cathy Barber Graduate Fellowship Award in 2013.
Casey McArdle, Communications Chair
Casey McArdle, Communications Chair
Casey McArdle is the Director of the Experience Architecture Program in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University. He is an advocate for accessibility in and out of the classroom and has been involved with OWI for many years via publications, presentations, and research teams that focus on OWI. He is the co-author of Personal, Accessible, Responsive, Strategic: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors (winner of the 2020 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award), co-editor of two PARS in Practice collections, winner of the 2024 Computers and Composition Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field, and the co-creator of The Online Writing Instruction Community resources website.
Jennifer Cunningham, At-Large Member
Jennifer Cunningham, At-Large Member
Jennifer M. Cunningham is an associate professor of English and the Writing Program Coordinator at Kent State University where she oversees first-year composition and online writing and teaches composition theory and gender and language. Her interest in online pedagogy began in 2010 when she was afforded an opportunity to learn from and work with an instructional designer at Stark State College to create fully online composition courses. She joined the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Online Writing Instruction (OWI) Standing Group in 2016 and has worked closely with past OWI Standing Group Chairs, Lyra Hilliard and Jessie Borgman, on various research projects, including the 2021 State of the Art of OWI Report. Currently, she serves as an editor for Online Literacies Open Resource (OLOR) Effective Practices. Along with her research team (Mary K. Stewart, Lyra Hilliard, and Natalie Stillman-Webb), she was awarded a 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Emergent Researcher Award for “Cross-Institutional Study of Communities of Inquiry in Blended and Online Composition Courses” and has related articles in College Composition and Communication and Composition Forum. Her work has also been published in Online Learning and the Journal of Response to Writing.
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