Leadership
Jennifer Cunningham, Chair
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.
Jason Snart, Associate Chair
Jason Snart is Professor of English and Chair of Literature, Creative Writing, and Film at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. He teaches composition, creative writing, and literature courses in a variety of modes, including online, hybrid, and face-to-face. His research and publishing focuses primarily on hybrid teaching, learning, and development. His most recent book, Making Hybrids Work: An Institutional Framework for Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education, was published in 2016 by NCTE. In 2020/21 Snart was awarded a League for Innovation Excellence award and also won the Outstanding Full-time Faculty award at College of DuPage.
Chris Andrews, Communications Chair
Christopher Andrews is an Associate Professor of English and Writing Studies Coordinator at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, where he oversees an online minor in technical and professional writing, an online certificate in Writing for Nonprofits, and a whole array of online and onsite courses across writing studies subdisciplines. He has been invested in OWI since 2009 as a student, teacher, researcher, and administrator. He joined the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Online Writing Instruction (OWI) Standing Group in 2023 and immediately wanted to jump in to work with others in the SG. Currently he serves as a managing editor for Kairos, A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. His work on access and the various online parts of writing programs has appeared in Open Words, Kairos, Computers and Composition, Programmatic Perspectives, and the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.
Allegra Smith, At-Large Member
Dr. Allegra W. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, she taught classes in content strategy, technical communication, and speech, as well as coordinating the Department of English’s Internship Program at Jacksonville State University in eastern Alabama. Her research focuses on improving technology and communication design experiences for diverse populations. With colleagues from Purdue University, she published a chapter on strategic online curriculum design in the 2021 edited collection PARS in Practice: More Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors.