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. She currently serves as co-chair of the CCCC Standing Group on Writing and STEM.
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.
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
Writing and Inquiry in the Liberal Arts
Writing and Inquiry in the Liberal Arts for Multilingual Students
Rhetorical Studies
Discovery Seminar: Digital Natives and Digital Literacies
Discovery Seminar: Everyday Genres
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.
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
“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.
Reid, Gwendolynne and J.L. Reid. “Shifting Narrative Structures: Remediating Interactive Fiction for Mobile Apps,” CRDM Research Symposium and Carolina Rhetoric Conference, Raleigh NC, 2013.
My research focuses on the role of writing and rhetoric in human understanding and specifically on the role of writing in the construction of disciplinary knowledge. Because genres and writing practices have changed in response to new media environments and communication technologies, my special focus is on digital writing in the disciplines. 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.