Gwendolynne Reid
Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing & Communication Program
Gwendolynne Reid is a scholar in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies, with a focus on writing in the disciplines, genre studies, and digital writing.
Dr. Reid’s courses include writing and inquiry in the liberal arts, writing and inquiry in the liberal arts for multilingual students, rhetorical studies, and a discovery seminar on digital natives and digital literacies. She also frequently oversees students in self-directed studies in individual topics, and she is a participating faculty member in the Oxford Research Scholars program. Her students have published in edited collections, textbooks, and the undergraduate journal Young Scholars in Writing and presented at conferences such as the National Conference of Undergraduate Research.
A frequent presenter and panelist at academic conferences, Reid is a founding member of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and a member of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Council of Writing Program Administrators, and the Small Liberal Arts Colleges-Writing Program Administrators (SLAC-WPA). She is the former co-chair of the CCCC Standing Group on Writing and STEM and current treasurer of SLAC-WPA.
Reid received a BA degree in intercultural studies summa cum laude from Bard College at Simon’s Rock, an MA degree in English from North Carolina State University, and an MA in screenwriting and film studies from Hollins University. Reid taught writing and rhetoric courses at North Carolina State University for a decade and joined the faculty of Oxford College in 2017 after receiving a PhD in communication, rhetoric, and digital media from North Carolina State University in 2017.
Education
PhD| North Carolina State University| 2017
MA| North Carolina State University| 2005
MA| Hollins University| 2005
BA| Bard College at Simon's Rock| 1999
AA| Bard College at Simon's Rock| 1997
Courses Taught
Writing and Inquiry in the Liberal Arts
Writing and Inquiry in the Liberal Arts for Multilingual Students
Rhetorical Studies
The History of the Scientific Research Article Since 1665
Science Communication for Public Audiences
Discovery Seminar: Digital Natives and Digital Literacies
Discovery Seminar: Everyday Genres
Publications
Reid, Gwendolynne, Christopher Kampe, & Kathleen M. Vogel. “Tech Trajectories: A Methodology for Exploring the Tacit Knowledge of Writers Through Tool-Based Interviews.” Composition Forum, vol. 49, no. Summer, 2022, https://compositionforum.com/issue/49/tech-trajectories.php.
Reid, Gwendolynne. Shifting Networks of Science: Citizen Science and Scientific Genre Change. In Scientific Communication: Principles, Practices, and Methods. Eds. Han Yu and Kathryn Northcut. Routledge Studies in Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Culture series. Routledge, 2017. 19-38. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781315160191-2/shifting-networks-science-gwendolynne-reid.
Reid, Gwendolynne, Robin Snead, Keon Pettiway, and Brent Simoneaux. “Multimodal Communication in the University: Surveying Faculty across Disciplines.” Across the Disciplines 13 (2016). http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/articles/reidetal2016.cfm.
Reid, Gwendolynne. “Updating the FYC-Library Partnership: Recent Work on Information Literacy and Writing Classrooms, WPA-CompPile Bibliographies, No. 25.” WPA-CompPile Research Bibliographies (September 2014). Eds. Rich Haswell and Dylan Dryer. http://comppile.org/wpa/bibliographies/Bib25/FYC-Library_Partnership.pdf
Selected Student Publications
Sarah, Mercedes. “Covert Resistance to #MeToo: The Uptake of Social Change and Public Anxiety in the Men’s Lifestyle Magazine Cover Genre.” Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric, vol. 20, 2023, pp. 71–92. https://youngscholarsinwriting.org/index.php/ysiw/article/view/371.
Zhao, Amiee. “‘Proud to Be Autistic’: Greta Thunberg’s Queering Rhetorical Genre in Climate Change Advocacy.” Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric, vol. 21, 2024, pp. 101–17. https://youngscholarsinwriting.org/index.php/ysiw/article/view/385.
Zhu, Huisheng, and Qinyan Cai. “Flexible Intimacies in Three Moves: A Genre Analysis of the Scholarly Book Preface.” Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric, vol. 17, 2020, pp. 147–60. https://youngscholarsinwriting.org/index.php/ysiw/article/view/308.
Presentations
Reid, Gwendolynne. “Genre or Media Formation? The Case of the Digital Monograph.” (In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies. South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2023.
“Using Tool-Based Interviews to Explore the Tacit Knowledge of Writers in Professional Settings.” Writing Research Across Borders: Trondheim, Norway, February 2023.
“Invitations to Science: Using STEM Writing Pedagogy to Advance Representation in STEM Fields” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Virtual Conference, March 2022.
“The Role of the Public in Scientific Writing: Teaching Scientific Composing in an Age of Context Collapse” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Virtual Conference, April 2021.
Reid, Gwendolynne and Sarah C. Fankhauser. “Writing Science: Exploring Pre-College Scientific Publication Experiences.” Writing Research Across Borders: Virtual Conference, March 2021.
Ball, Cheryl, Jeff Kuure, Sarah McKee, and Gwendolynne Reid. “What We Wish Authors & Editors Knew About Digital Publishing.” Computers and Writing. East Lansing MI, June 2019.
“Performing Science: Secondary School Students’ Experiences with Publishing Science.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh PA, 2019.
“‘Talking to Other People in Their Own Languages’: Making Interdiscursive Connections as Scientific Composing.” International Writing Across the Curriculum conference. Auburn AL, 2018.
“Dappled and Digital: Composing the Discipline in New Media and Modes.” Panel: Composing Networks: Towards a More Heterogeneous Conception of Disciplinarity. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City MO, 2018.
“Of Whales, Hearts, and Databases: An Undergraduate's Rhetorical Education in and out of the Lab.” Panel: Learning to Write Disciplines: Cultivating Students’ Disciplinary Knowledge across Sites of Learning. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland OR, 2017.
“Genre Change: Negotiating Polycontextuality in Scientific Genres.” Panel: Genres in a Complex World: Case Studies in Emergence and Change. Rhetorical Society of America, Atlanta GA, 2016.
“Interrogating our Schemas for Discipline-as-Category.” Panel: Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity: Coming to Terms with Our Past and Taking Action for the Future. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston TX, 2016.
“A Technologized Writing Pedagogy: Teaching the Writer’s Tools in FYC,” Panel: Pedagogy, Multimodality, and Digital Technology. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa FL, 2015.
“Welcoming Wikipedia into the Classroom: Using Wikipedia to Teach Critical Information Literacy in the First-Year Writing Classroom.” Panel: Researching to Write, Writing to Research: Teaching Information Literacy to First-Year Writing Students, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis IN, 2014.
Simoneaux, Brent, Gwendolynne Reid, Bethany Bradshaw, and Megan Hall. “Usability Meets Contingency: Redesigning a Writing Program’s Interface,” Computers and Writing Conference, Frostburg MD, 2013.
Research Interests
My research focuses on disciplinary communication and how students and other newcomes learn it. My interests stem largely from many years of teaching undergraduates about disciplinary writing and research and the realization that today’s students and communicators must adapt to increasingly complex communication environments.