Krista Kennedy

Dept. of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, & Composition

Syracuse University, College of Arts & Sciences
krista01@syr.edu | kristakennedy.net

Professional Summary
Core Faculty Member, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute 2021 - present
Syracuse University

NEH Distinguished Visiting Professor of Writing & Rhetoric 2020 - 2021

Colgate University

Associate Professor of Writing & Rhetoric 2016 - present

Syracuse University

Director of the Writing Major and Minor 2016 - 2018

Syracuse University

Assistant Professor of Writing & Rhetoric 2009 - 2016

Syracuse University
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Writing Studies 2004 - 2009
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Rhetoric & Writing 2002 - 2004
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy 2002 - 2003

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Education
Ph.D in Rhetoric, Scienti ic, & Technical Communication 2009
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
M.A., Professional & Technical Writing 2004
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
B.A., English, Professional & Technical Writing 2002
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

Research
Kennedy, Krista. “The Disability, Data, and Surveillance Project.” Syracuse University
Collaboration for Unprecedented Success and Excellence (CUSE) seed grant SD-20-2020.
$5,000. PI. 2020 - 2022.

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Semester Research Leave, Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences. Spring 2019.

Syracuse University Humanities Center Funding Award for colloquium on “Archival

Methods and Ethics for Recovering Lost Texts.” $400. 2018.

Kennedy, Krista. “‘Invisibilized Hearing’: The Invisibility and Secrecy of Deafness in Hearing
Aid Advertisements.” Syracuse University Internal Grant Program. $1,000 (maximum
award). PI. 2015.

Kairos Graduate and Adjunct Award for Research. Computers and Writing Conference.
2009.

Gerard A. Hauser Award, Rhetoric Society of America. 2006.

Veritas Software Fellowship, Industrial Af iliates Program, University of Minnesota

Department of Rhetoric, Scienti ic, & Technical Communication. 2004-2005.

Teaching
Torch Medal Recipient, Colgate University. 2021.

Excellence in Graduate Education Award, Syracuse University Graduate School. 2019.

James I. Brown Teaching Excellence Award, University of Minnesota Department of

Rhetoric, Scienti ic, and Technical Communication. 2006-2007.

Teaching With Technology Award, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. (University-wide.)

Category: Best Practices. With Charles Anderson. Nov. 7, 2003.

Research
Book
Kennedy, Krista. Textual Curation: Authorial Agency in Wikipedia and the Chambers’
Cyclopædia. University of South Carolina Press. 2016.
• Reviewed in Quarterly Journal of Speech (2020)

Edited Volumes
Kennedy, Krista and Jenell Johnson. Special issue on Disability, In/Visibility, and Risk.
Rhetoric Society Quarterly 50(3) (Summer 2020). 161-221.
• Johnson, Jenell and Krista Kennedy. “Disability, In/Visibility, and Risk.” Rhetoric Society
Quarterly 50(3) (Summer 2020). 161-165.

Howard, Rebecca Moore and Krista Kennedy. Special Issue on Western Cultures of
Intellectual Property. College English 75.5 (May 2013). 461-547.
• Kennedy, Krista and Rebecca Moore Howard. “Introduction to the Special Issue on
Western Cultures of Intellectual Property.” College English 75.5 (May 2013). 461-469.

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Peer-Reviewed Articles
Kennedy, Krista, Charlotte Tschider, and Noah Wilson. “Balancing the Halo: Data
Surveillance and Algorithmic Opacity in Smart Hearing Aids.” Rhetoric of Health and
Medicine 4(1) (2021). 33-74.

Kennedy, Krista. “'I Forgot I’m Deaf!': Passing, Kairotic Space, and the Midcentury Cyborg
Woman." Rhetoric Society Quarterly 50(3) (Summer 2020). 184-193.

Kennedy, Krista. “Designing for Human-Machine Collaboration: Smart Hearing Aids as

Wearable Technologies.” Special issue on Communication Design of Wearable Technologies
in Health and Medicine. Eds. Catherine Gouge and John Jones. Communication Design
Quarterly 5(4) (Dec. 2017). 40-51.

Kennedy, Krista. “Textual Curation.” Computers and Composition 40 (June 2016). 175-189.

Kennedy, Krista. “The Daw and the Honeybee: Originality and Anxiety in the 1728
Chambers’ Cyclopædia.” College English 76.1 (Sept. 2013). 35-58.

Peer-Reviewed Chapters
Howard, Rebecca Moore and Krista Kennedy. “Designing Accessible Print and Digital
Documents.” Writing Matters, 4th ed. McGraw Hill, 2021. 183-198.

Tschider, Charlotte A. and Krista Kennedy. “Data Discrimination: The International

Regulatory Impasse of AI-Enabled Devices.” Legal, Social, and Ethical Perspectives on Health
and Technology. Eds. Motahareh Fathisalout-Bollon and Anna Berti Suman. Presses
Universitaires Savoie Mont Blanc, 2020. 147-168.

Kennedy, Krista and Noah Wilson. “The Banality of Digital Aggression: Algorithmic Data
Surveillance in Medical Wearables.” Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online
Aggression, Hate Speech, and Harassment. Eds. Jessica Reyman and Erika Sparby. Routledge,
2019. 214-230.
• Collection received the 2020 Computers & Writing Conference Distinguished Book
Award.

Tschider, Charlotte A. and Krista Kennedy. “Legal Issues in Cybernetics and Robotics.” The
Law of Arti icial Intelligence and Smart Machines. Ed. Theodore F. Claypoole. American Bar
Association, 2019. 281-301.

Kennedy, Krista, and Derek Mueller. “Every Mad Scientist Needs a Tower: Blogs as Research
and Pedagogy Laboratories for Graduate Students.” Metamorphosis: The Effects of
Professional Development on Graduate Students. Eds. Andrea Davis and Susan Webb.
Fountainhead Press, 2017. 139-154.

Kennedy, Krista, and Seth Long. “The Trees Within the Forest: Extracting, Coding, and
Visualizing Subjective Data in Authorship Studies.” Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities, ed.
Bill Hart-Davidson and Jim Ridolfo. University of Chicago Press, 2015. 140-151.

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• Collection received the 2016 Computers & Writing Conference Distinguished Book
Award.

Kennedy, Krista, and Rebecca Moore Howard. “Collaborative Pedagogy in the Digital Age.” A
Guide to Composition Pedagogies. (2nd edition.) Eds. Tate, Gary, Amy Rupiper Taggart, Kurt
Schick, and H. Brooke Hessler. Oxford University Press, 2013. 37-54.

Kennedy, Krista, Georges Lamoine and C cile R vauger. (Invited.) “Ephraim Chambers.” Le
Monde Maçonnique des Lumiéres (Europe-Amériques et Colonies). [The World of
Freemasonry in the Enlightenment (Europe, Americas, and Colonies.)] Eds. C cile R vauger
and Charles Porset. Editions Honor Champion, 2013. 728-730.

Kennedy, Krista. (Invited.) “Google Faces Legal Challenges in its Effort to Digitize University
Library Contents.” Major Intellectual Property Developments for Scholars of Composition and
Communication. CCCC Intellectual Property Committee. NCTE: Urbana, IL. Available at
http://www.ncte.org/cccc/committees/ip/2005developments. 2006.

Conference Proceedings
Canzonetta, Jordan, Krista Kennedy, Charlotte Tschider, and Noah Wilson. “The Politics of
Algorithms: Ethical Algorithmic Data Collection in Medical and Educational Contexts.”
Papers Presented at AoIR 2018: The 19th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet
Researchers, 11 pages. Montr al, Canada, 2018.

Amidon, Tim, Laura Arduser, Catherine Gouge, Les Hutchinson, John Jones, Natasha Jones,
Krista Kennedy, Tiffany Lipsey, Kristen Moore, Maria Novotny, and Candice A. Welhausen.
“Examining Usability in the Communication Design of Health Wearables.” Extended
abstract. Proceedings of ACM SIGDOC Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Aug. 2017
(SIGDOC’17), 2 pages. 2017.

Arm ield, Dawn, Krista Kennedy, and Ann Hill Duin. “The Roles of Networked Learning,
Collaboration, and Connectedness in the Classroom.” Extended abstract. Proceedings of the
IEEE Professional Communication Society. Piscataway, NJ: 2014. 1-2.

Kennedy, Krista. “Textual Machinery: Authorial Agency and Bot-Written Texts in Wikipedia.”
The Responsibilities of Rhetoric. Eds. Michelle Smith & Barbara Warnick. Waveland Press,
2009. 303-309.

Kennedy, Krista. “Methodological Issues Relevant to the Study of Authorship in Wikipedia.”

Conference Proceedings of New Research for New Media 2005: New Media Research@UMN.
September 2005. 63-68.

Forum Contributions and Review Essays

Kennedy, Krista. (Invited.) “The Anxiety of Automation: Attending to the Deep History of
Automated Entities.” Explorations in Media Ecology 16(2-3), 2017. 259-262.

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Gurak, Laura J., Gretchen Haas, Laurie Johnson, Krista Kennedy, and Jessica Reyman.
“Copyright, Ownership, and Digital Media: A Trilogy.” Reviews of Lessig, Lawrence, Free
Culture (Penguin Press, 2004); Fisher, William, Promises to Keep (Stanford UP, 2004); and
Vaidhyanathan, Siva, The Anarchist in the Library (Basic Books, 2004). Reviewed in
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology. May 2005. 687-708.

Web-based Publications
Interviews
“RHM Author Interview: Dr. Fernando S nchez, RHM Assistant Editor, interviews Krista
Kennedy, Noah Wilson, and Charlotte Tschider on their article, 'Balancing the Halo: Data
Surveillance Disclosure and Algorithmic Opacity in Smart Hearing Aids,’” Rhetoric of Health
and Medicine 4.1, 2021. 13 manuscript pages. http://medicalrhetoric.com/journal/vol-4-
issue-1/kennedy-et-al-interview/

Podcasts
“Collisions in Patient Education: Surveillance, Medical Devices, and Communication.” With
Noah Wilson. Interview with Liz Fraley. Room 42 Podcast, Season 1 Episode 21. April 28,
2021. 42 min. https://www.single-sourcing.com/events/collisions-in-patient-education-
surveillance-medical-devices-and-communication/

“Episode 89: Autonomous Systems and People with Disabilities.” Interview with Diane
Weiner. ADALive! Podcast, Episode 89. Southeast ADA Center. Jan. 6, 2021. 37 min. https://
adalive.org/episodes/episode-89/

Creative Publications
Non iction
Kennedy, Krista. “Pools, or, On Being Seen Deaf.” Tendon Magazine. Johns Hopkins Center for
Medical Humanities and Social Medicine. 2019.

Kennedy, Krista. “Hearing.” Quills and Pixels. University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2003. 38.

Poetry
Kennedy, Krista. “Being Ecological | Ecological Being.” Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability
Poetry and Literature. Forthcoming Summer 2022.

Photography (selected)
Kennedy, Krista. “Contented Graf iti,” original photograph reproduced in Nemko,
Marty, “The Power of Having Something to Look Forward To.” Psychology Today, Feb
14, 2022.

Kennedy, Krista. “Childhood Globe,” original photograph reproduced in Howard,

Rebecca Moore, Writing Matters, 4th ed. McGraw Hill, 2021.

Kennedy, Krista. “Port Huron Light House,” original photograph reproduced in

Howard, Rebecca Moore, Writing Matters, 4th ed. McGraw Hill, 2021.

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Kennedy, Krista. “Cat, Archives,” original photograph reproduced in Howard, Rebecca

Moore, Writing Matters, 4th ed. McGraw Hill, 2021.

Kennedy, Krista. “Sabbatical Blanket is Underway,” original photograph reproduced

in Howard, Rebecca Moore, Writing Matters, 4th ed. McGraw Hill, 2021.

Kennedy, Krista. “Tree of 40 Fruits in Full Bloom,” original photograph reproduced in

HW Yung, KM Ho, YK Ho, KH Tam, WH Wong, New Senior Secondary Mastering
Biology, 2nd ed. Hong Kong SAR, China: Oxford University Press. English and Chinese
editions, print and digital formats. 2020.

Kennedy, Krista. “Blowtorch, Copper, Basement,” original photograph reproduced in

Howard, Rebecca Moore, Writing Matters, 3rd ed. McGraw Hill, 2017. 639.
Kennedy, Krista. “Quilt Made by My Momo,” original photograph reproduced in
Howard, Rebecca Moore, Writing Matters, 3rd ed. McGraw Hill, 2017. 519.

Kennedy, Krista. “Muddy Water Always Makes Me Feel at Home,” original photograph
reproduced in Green, Amy, “Neighboring Residents Take Legal Action After Sinkhole at
Fertilizer Plant.” WGCU/NPR. Sept. 26, 2016

Kennedy, Krista. “Exit,” original photograph reproduced in Vbert, Frank and Gunnar Beck,
“The Seven Days of Brexit: How a Leave Government Could Bypass Article 50.” Politics and
Policy Blog. The London School of Economics and Political Science. June 15, 2016.

Kennedy, Krista. “Water Power Park,” original photograph reproduced in Global

Energy Issues MOOC, MINES ParisTech ( cole Nationale Sup rieure des Mines de
Paris). Spring 2016.

Kennedy, Krista. “Half Tamale Spread and a Shiner Bock,” original photograph
reproduced in Alexander, Kevin and Liz Childers, “Are These the 11 Best BBQ Cities
in America?” Thrillist, Feb. 15, 2015 and Yahoo Food, Feb. 18, 2015.

Kennedy, Krista. “Making Spicy Fried Chicken on Christmas Eve,” original

photograph reproduced in Thomson, Julie R., “How to Season, Clean, and Care For a
Cast Iron Skillet Like a Pro.” The Huf ington Post. Feb. 11, 2015.

Kennedy, Krista. “Packing Up an Identity,” original photograph reproduced in

Gerke, Markus, “Teaching Gender and Feminism as a Male-Identi ied Instructor.”
TheSocietyPages.org. The University of Minnesota and W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
Jan. 10-17, 2014.

Kennedy, Krista. “Summertime,” original photograph reproduced in Doll, Jen, “How

to Enthusiastically Prepare for Summer 2013.” The Wire, news blog of The Atlantic.
May 16, 2013.

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Kennedy, Krista. “The Old Bailey, London,” original photograph reproduced in

“Bragging Investment Manager Loses £1.7 Bonus in High Court.” The London Evening
Standard. Dec. 10, 2012.

Kennedy, Krista. “The John Wayne Hockey Movie: Sports World vs. Underworld,”
original photograph reproduced in Cole, Stephen, Triple Overtime. Simon & Schuster,
2012. 95.

Kennedy, Krista. “Little House Replica,” original photograph reproduced in

Taylor, Danielle, “Homeward Bound.” Log Home Living, June 2012. 88.
“Historic Cabins Across the Country.” Country’s Best Log Homes Presents Cozy
Cabins, 2010. 26.

Kennedy, Krista. “Snoot!,” original photograph reproduced in Del Signore, John, “Rat
Bites Prisoner’s Penis, Lawsuit (and Nightmares) Ensue.” Gothamist. Jan. 14, 2011.

Kennedy, Krista. “Bleakness,” original photograph reproduced in Friedrich, Alex, “U-

Minnesota System to Turn Down the Power Over the Holidays.” Minnesota Public
Radio (MPR). Nov. 11, 2010.

Kennedy, Krista. “Pasadena Playhouse,” original photograph reproduced in Devall,

Cheryl, “Pasadena Playhouse May Reorganize Under Bankruptcy.” Southern
California Public Radio 89.3. KPCC. May 11, 2010.

Kennedy, Krista,”Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden,” original photograph reproduced

in “Beverly Cleary Continues to Delight.” The City of Portland, Oregon
(portlandoregon.gov). Sept. 28, 2009.

Journalism
More than 20 publications inThe Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (2002), UALR Forum (2001),
Active Years Magazine (1994-2002), Arkansas Catholic Newsweekly (1993-1994), and
Arkansas Women’s Journal (1993-1995).

In Progress
Kennedy, Krista. Attunement: Deafness, Technology, and Education. Book-length creative
non iction project. 1/3 complete.

Tschider, Charlotte and Krista Kennedy. Intelligent Health: Dataveillance, Law, and the New
Ethics of Medical Wearables. Scholarly monograph. 1/2 complete.

Intellectual Property, Digital Texts, and Project Management

Intellectual Property Consultant and Production Coordinator for Feinberg, Leslie, Stone
Butch Blues 20th Anniversary Author’s Edition. Open edition published in on-demand and
digital formats. 2012-2015.

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Digital Texts Consultant, Intuit Innovation Lab. Provided platform recommendations,

assessment, and textual resources for Cook, Scott, “The Contribution Revolution,” Harvard
Business Review Oct. 2008 and related wiki.

Digital Texts Consultant and Interim Project Manager, “The Ef icacy of Proactive Personal
Email Support as an Addition to Minnesota’s Quitplan.com Stop-Smoking Website.”
Principle Investigator: Larry An, UMN Medical School, Division of General Internal
Medicine. MPAAT (Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco) Grant, $340,000 over
three years. 2006.

Assistant Editor for Gross, Alan and Laura Gurak, “The State of Rhetoric of Science and
Technology,” Technical Communication Quarterly 14.3 (Summer 2005).

Editing Consultant for Halter, Deborah, The Papal ‘No’: A Comprehensive Guide to the
Vatican’s Refusal of Women’s Ordination, Crossroad Publishing Company, 2004. First Place,
Gender Issues, 2005 Catholic Press Awards.

Archival Wor
Berger Hearing Aid Museum and Archive, Kent State University
Bernard Becker Medical Library Archives, Washington University
Bodleian Library, Oxford University
The British Library, London
James Ford Bell Collection, University of Minnesota
The Library and Museum of Freemasonry, United Grand Lodge of England, London
New College Library, Oxford University

Presentations
Invited Lectures
Why You Should Listen to Cyborgs: Auto-ethnographic Data and Interactive Acoustic
Development. Special Session on Interactive Hearing Devices. 24th International Congress
on Acoustics, Gyeongju, Korea. Scheduled October 24 -28, 2022.

Penn State Communication Arts & Sciences Summer Symposium on “Theorizing

Communication in a Digital Age.” June 13-14, 2017.
• Texts Less Visible. July 13, 2017
• On Archival Work in Digital Communication and Becoming Archival Ourselves. June
14, 2017.

Automated Authorship. Ignite Talk. ACM-SIGDOC. Kemmy Business School, University of

Limerick, Ireland. July 17, 2015.

Textual Machinery. Digital panel on “Code Work: Exploring Digital Studies Through Code.”
University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Studies. April 15, 2015.

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International Conferences
The International Regulatory Impasse of AI-Enabled Devices. With Charlotte Tschider.
(In)tangible Technology and Data Symposium for Medical Humanities and Social Sciences.
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. October 18, 2019.

Balancing the Halo: Ethical Patient Communication of Algorithmic Data Collection in

Medical Devices. Association of Internet Researchers. Montr al, Quebec, Canada. October
12, 2018.

Collective Listening: Smart Hearing Aids as Wearable Technologies. Featured Panel on

“Usability in Communication Design.” ACM-SIGDOC. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada. August 13, 2017.

Digital Hearing Aids as Wearables. Association of Internet Researchers. Humboldt-

Universit t zu Berlin, Germany. October 7, 2016.

Teaching Content Strategy with Large-Scale, Collaborative Websites. International

Professional Communication Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. October 14, 2014.

“The Book ’Tis Not Mine”: Ephraim Chambers and the Intellectual Commons. Society for the
History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Minneapolis, MN. July 12, 2007.

National Conferences
Special Session: Intersectional Rhetorics of Technology Roundtable. Rhetoric Society of
America. Baltimore, MD. Scheduled May 2022.

“Prescribing Exploitation.” With Charlotte Tschider. We Robot 2021. University of Miami

School of Law, Miami, FL. Sept. 25, 2021.

“The Cost of Expediency: Privacy as Dignity in Health Technologies,” with Charlotte

Tschider. American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics Health Law Professors Conference.
Northeastern University School of Law, Boston, MA. June 4, 2020. Conference cancelled due
to COVID-19.

Rhetorical Agency, Pervasive Surveillance, and Medical Wearables. Rhetoric Society of

America. Minneapolis, MN. June 2, 2018.

‘Invisibilized Hearing’: Deafness, Assistive Technologies, and Rhetorical Invisibility.

Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. June 1, 2018.
Budgeting for Accessibility at Academic Conferences. Western States Communication
Association. Feb. 20, 2017.

Curation as a Rhetorical Act. Digital Humanities Supersession. Rhetoric Society of America.

Atlanta, GA. May 29, 2016.

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Machine Rhetorics and Rhetorical Agency. Machine Rhetorics Supersession. Rhetoric

Society of America. San Antonio, TX. May 25, 2014.

Freemasonry, Class, and Intellectual Democracy in the Chambers’ Cyclopædia. Rhetoric

Society of America. Philadelphia, PA. May 27, 2012.
The Daw and the Honeybee: Anxiety and Piracy in the 1728 Chambers’ Cyclopædia.
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Atlanta, GA. April 8, 2011.

Automated Curation: Bot-Written Texts and Rhetorical Agency in Wikipedia. Association of

Teachers of Technical Writing. Atlanta, GA. April 6, 2011.
Eighteenth Century Crowdsourcing. Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May 30,
2010.

Disturbances in the Force: Vandalism and Readerly Agency in Wikipedia. Computers and
Writing. Purdue University. May 21, 2010.

Re-writing the Author: Textual Curation and Ownership in Wikis. Conference on College
Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 13, 2009.

Chronicling the 35W Bridge Collapse with Classroom Wikis. Poster session, with Lee-Ann
Kastman Breuch. Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. San Francisco, CA. March 11,
2009.

Writing Machines: Authorial Agency and Bot-Written Texts in Wikipedia. Rhetoric Society
of America. Seattle, WA. May 25, 2008.

Writing Trust: Authority and Trust in Wikipedia. Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Little Rock,
AR. Oct. 5, 2007.

Genette’s Poetics of Transtextuality as a Framework for Understanding Authorship in Blogs.

Computers and Writing. Detroit, MI. May 18, 2007.

Inspiration, Imitation, Adaptation: Hellenic Conceptions of Originality. American Society for

the History of Rhetoric, NCA. San Antonio, TX. Nov. 18, 2006.

“What Does It Matter Who Is Speaking?”: Situational Authorship in Wikis. Originality,

Imitation, and Plagiarism: A Cross-Disciplinary Conference. University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. Sept. 23, 2005.

Methodological Issues Relevant to the Study of Authorship in Wikipedia. New Media

Research @ UMN: an Interdisciplinary Conference on New Media and Internet Studies.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Sept. 16, 2005.

The Author and the Commons: Authorship in Blog Environments. Conference on College
Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA. March 18, 2005.

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National Workshops
The New Ethics of Audience. With Rebecca Moore Howard. McGraw-Hill Education, online
workshop series. March 23, 2022; April 14, 2022.

Organizer and Moderator, Navigating Publication Series, RSA Remote. Curated and hosted
online panel conversations with central editors and scholars in rhetorical studies to
support publication for scholars at all career stages during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• So You Want to Edit a Journal. With Christina Cedillo, Katie Langford, Jackie Rhodes,
and Mary Stuckey. Nov. 12, 2021.
• Publishing in Journals: All the Things That Aren’t Articles. With Elise Hurley and
Christa Olson. Oct. 15, 2021.
• Publishing Your Research in Journals. With Thomas Nakayama and Jenell Johnson. Oct.
1, 2021
• Scholarship as Creative Work/Creative Work as Scholarship. With Kevin Browne, Cara
Finnegan, Steven Katz, and Elaine Richardson. March 26, 2021.
• Supporting Writing in Unusual Times. With Steph Ceraso, Cheryl Geisler, Stephanie
Kerschbaum, and Khirsten Scott. Feb. 12, 2021.
• What Book Do You Really Want to Write? Second Books, Risk, and Reviews. With
Aurora Bell, Byron Harris, Ryan Peterson, Thomas Rickert, and Daniel Waterman. Nov.
20, 2020
• Making Contact: Working with Book Editors, Reviewers, and Readers. With Jenny Bay,
Aurora Bell, David Blakesley, Ryan Peterson, and Daniel Waterman. Oct. 16, 2020.
• From Dissertation to Book. With Aurora Bell, David Blakesley, and Daniel Waterman.
Sept. 25, 2020

Preparing for the Job Market. With Kenny Fountain, Jordynn Jack, Paul Strob, and Bradford
Vivian. Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May 30, 2010.

Blogging and Academics. With Scott Rogers and Jeff Ward. Workshop on "U Blog: A Practical
Introduction to Using Weblogs for the Classroom and Research." Conference on College
Composition and Communication. San Antonio, TX. March 24, 2004.

Regional Conferences
Contemplating the Classroom. With Barbara L'Eplattenier. South Central MLA Conference.
Hot Springs, AR. Nov. 1, 2003.

Interdisciplinary Campus Colloquia

“Arrivals, Borders.” With Kevin Browne. Creative Non iction Reading Series, Syracuse
University. March 4, 2022.

Organizer for M. Remi Yergeau, “Mechanical Inclinations: Robots, Autism, and Rhetorics of
Behavior Management.” Hosted by the Colgate Department of Writing & Rhetoric, co-
sponsored by the Colgate Departments of Core SP, Educational Studies, Psychology & Brain
Studies, Computer Science, LGBTQ Studies and Syracuse University Autonomous Systems
Policy Institute. Colgate University. April 6, 2021.

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Co-organizer for Diane Weiner and Rachael Zubal Ruggieri, “Disability and Comics.”
Department of Rhetoric & Writing and Department of Education Studies, Colgate University.
March 22, 2021.

Co-organizer and speaker, Archival Methods and Ethics Colloquium. With Roslyn Knutson
(University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Kendall Phillips (CRS), Genevieve Garc a de M eller
(WRT), and Colleen Theisen (SU Libraries). Hosted by Writing Studies, Rhetoric, &
Composition and English, co-sponsored by Communication & Rhetorical Studies; Special
Collections; Medieval & Renaissance Studies; The Humanities Center; Languages,
Literatures, & Linguistics; History; Religion; and Drama. Syracuse University. Sept. 26, 2018.

Organizer and speaker, Disciplinary Perspectives on Teaching ‘Good Writing.’ Roundtable

discussion with faculty from Whitman School of Management, the iSchool, Falk, and
Engineering & Computer Science. Reimagining Student Writers series, Syracuse University
Writing Program. Feb. 25, 2016.

Crowdsourced Encyclopedias. Tolley Faculty Dinner Forum: Re lections on Digital

Culture(s). Syracuse University, College of Arts & Sciences. Feb 12, 2013.

Organizer and MC, “Land and Labor: 3 Voices,” featuring Janine DeBaise (SUNY-ESF), Steve
Himmer (Emerson University), and Minnie Bruce Pratt (WRT/WGS). Non iction Reading
Series, SU Writing Program. July 21, 2011. Held at SparkyTown in the Hawley-Green
historic district of Syracuse.

Bot-Written Texts in Wikipedia. New Media Breakfast Series. University of Minnesota

Institute for New Media Studies. April 2, 2009.

Authorship and Ownership in Wikipedia. Networks and Neighborhoods in CyberSpace

Symposium. Of ice of the Vice President for Research, MN Futures Program, and the
University of Minnesota Digital Technology Center. Feb. 11, 2008.

Corporate Contributions to the Commons via Blog and Wiki Environments. UMN Industrial
Af iliates Program Annual Colloquium. May 16, 2005.

Blogumentary Panelist. UMN Institute for New Media Studies. Feb. 3, 2005.

Into the Blogosphere: New Models of Research and Publication with Blogs. With Laura
Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman. UMN
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series. Nov. 29, 2004.

Teaching
Courses Taught at Syracuse University
Doctoral Seminars
Rhetoric, Writing, & Technologies (CCR 633).
Independent Study: Rhetorical Invention (CCR 690).

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Techne to DIY: Rhetorics of Craft (CCR 711).

Intersectional Materialisms (CCR 711).
Authorship Studies (CCR 747).
Professional & Technical Writing in the Digital Age (CCR 760).

Graduate/Undergraduate Courses
Technical Documentation and Usability (WRT 419/619). Hybrid.
Emerging Technologies in PTW (WRT 427/627). Hybrid.
Information Design (WRT 437/637). Hybrid and online.

Undergraduate Courses
Freshman Forum (CAS 101). Traditional.
Advanced Argumentative Writing (WRT 255). Traditional.
Digital Writing (WRT 302). Traditional.
Professional Writing (WRT 307). Online and traditional.
Rhetoric and Robots (WRT 426). Traditional.
Digital Identities (WRT 426). Hybrid.
Senior Research Seminar I/II (WRT 495/496). Traditional.

Courses Taught at the Colgate University

Public Speaking (WRIT 215). Online.
Rhetoric and Robots (WRIT 344). Online.
Rhetoric, Disability, and Technology (WRIT 380). Online.

Courses Taught at the University of Minnesota

Scienti ic & Technical Presentations.Traditional.
Internet Tools and Issues. Online.
Technical & Professional Writing.Traditional and Online.
Emerging Technologies in Scienti ic & Technical Communication. Online.

Courses Taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Composition I. Online pilot.
Introduction to Non iction. Teaching Assistant. Online.
Introduction to Astronomy & Introduction to Astronomy Lab. Teaching Assistant. Online.

Graduate Advising
Dissertation Committees
Chair:
Jordan Canzonetta, 2019, passed with distinction. “Unearthing Entanglements: Human/
Machine Collaboration in the Writing Classroom.”
Michael J. Frasciello, 2015. “Embedded Technical Communication Instruction:
Understanding High-Context Writing in a Pre-Professional Engineering Program.”
Jason Markins, in progress
Noah Wilson, in progress

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Core Committee:
C.C. Hendricks, 2020
Seth Long, 2015, passed with distinction.
• 2015 American Society for the History of Rhetoric Dissertation Award Winner
Justin Lewis, 2013.
Christine Geyer, 2013.
Brett Keegan, in progress
Ana Cortes, in progress
Jana Rosinski, in progress

Reader:
Lindsey Bannister, 2017.
A.V. Luce, 2017.
W. Kurt Stavenhagen, 2015.
Madeline Dahlke Yonker, 2011.
Ezikio Lopez, in progress

Qualifying Exams Committees

Chair:
Noah Wilson, 2019, passed with distinction.
Jason Markins, 2017
Jordan Canzonetta, 2017, passed with distinction.
Michael J. Frasciello, 2012
Justin Lewis, 2011, passed with distinction.
Lida Colon, in progress (co-chaired with Genevieve Garc a de M eller)

Committee Member:
Andy Ridgeway, 2022
Jana Rosinski, 2018
Brett Keegan, 2018, passed with distinction.
C.C. Hendricks, 2017, passed with distinction.
Geghard Arakelian, 2016
Seth Long, 2014
Rachel Shapiro, 2012
A.V. Luce, 2011

Masters Thesis Committees

Laura Ann McGrath, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, 2012

Honors Thesis Committees

Sarah Crawford, Writing & Rhetoric, 2020
Mira Kohli, School of Information Studies, 2018

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Curriculum Design & Support

Presented more than 20 professional development workshops and colloquia on teaching in
the Writing major, 2009-present
Curriculum revision of WRT 307: Professional Writing (with Lerie Gabriel), 2021-2022.
Founding faculty member, Professional & Technical Writing Minor, 2019
Curriculum design for PTW Minor (as chair of Major/Minor committee), 2018
Development of WRT Upper-Division Handbook, 2017-2018
Curriculum redesign of WRT 302: Digital Writing, 2014-15
Chair, Professional & Technical Writing Certi icate Feasibility Study Committee, 2012
Chair, Writing About Science Course Development Subcommittee, 2012
Curriculum design of Writing Major Core (as co-chair and member of Major/Minor
Committee), 2010-12
Curriculum design and pilots of Professional & Technical Writing courses, 2010-12
WRT 419: Technical Documentation & Usability
WRT 427: Emerging Technologies in Professional & Technical Writing
WRT 437: Information Design
Curriculum design and pilot of WRT 426: Digital Identities, 2011
Curriculum redesign and implementation of WRT 307: Professional Writing, 2009-2011

Feasibility Studies and Reports

Kennedy, Krista. “Proposed Creation of a Minor in Professional and Technical Writing.” Final
report. Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition, Syracuse University,
2018. 5 pages.

Kennedy, Krista, Carol Faulkner, Kevan Edwards, Mathew Maye, Kandice Salomone, Naomi
Shanguhyia, and Jeremy Sloane. “Educational Excellence Subcommittee Strategic Planning
Recommendation Report.” College of Arts & Sciences, Syracuse University. 2017. 25 pages.

Kennedy, Krista, George Rhinehart and Michael J. Frasciello. “Proposed Creation of a

Certi icate of Advanced Study in Professional and Technical Writing.” Final Report. The
Writing Program, Syracuse University. 2012. 15 pages.

Service
National
Professional Organization Service
• Organizer, Mid-career Retreat, Rhetoric Society of America, 2022
• Director of Event Sponsorships and Advertising, Rhetoric Society of America,
2019-2021
• RSA Remote Development Team. Developed and launched series of online professional
development events for our national membership. Rhetoric Society of America,
2020-2021
• Digital Communications Of icer Search Committee, Rhetoric Society of America, 2020
• Book Award Committee, Rhetoric Society of America, 2018
• Proposal Reviewer, Student Research Competition, ACM-SIGDOC, 2017
• Conference Advisory Committee, Rhetoric Society of America, 2012-2014

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• Conference Proposal Reviewer, Rhetoric Society of America, 2013, 2015, 2017

• Proposal Reviewer, ATTW at MLA, 2012
• Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication Committee, Conference
on College Composition & Communication, 2012
• Committee on Research, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, 2009-2011
• Co-Chair, Blogging Special Interest Group, Conference on College Composition &
Communication, 2005

Promotion and Tenure Reviewing

• External reviewer for tenure and promotion case (doctoral institution), 2018

Editorial Service
Academic Advisory Committee, TC Camp / Room 42
Advisory Board, University of Alabama Press Rhetoric and Digitality series

Invited Manuscript Reviewer

• College Composition and Communication
• College English
• IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
• International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress
• Journal of Business and Technical Communication
• Journal of Writing Research
• Research in the Teaching of English
• Rhetoric Society Quarterly
• Southern Illinois University Press
• University of Alabama Press
• University of Minnesota Blog Collective
• University of South Carolina Press
• University of Utah State University Press
• Winterthur Portfolio

Textbook Reviewer
• McGraw-Hill
• SAGE Publishing

Grant Reviewer
Reviewer, Northern Illinois University Research & Artistry Awards Program

University
Syracuse University
Member, Outstanding TA Award Selection Committee. 2019-2020.
Member, Autonomous Systems Policy Institute Steering Committee. 2019 - present.
Member, Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Open Access. 2019-2020.
Member, Humanities Council, 2017-2018.
Member, Arts & Sciences Strategic Planning Steering Committee. 2017.
• Chair, Educational Excellence Subcommittee

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Lower-Division Advisor. College of Arts and Sciences. 2009-2011.

University of Minnesota
Member, College of Agriculture, Food Science, & Environmental Studies Technology Fees
Policy Committee. 2006.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Mentor, Adult Returning Student Mentorship Program, 2003-2004.

Departmental
Syracuse University
Member, Department Chair Search Committee, 2012, 2022.
Member, Graduate Committee, 2013-2015, 2021-present.
Member, Major/Minor Committee, 2009-2013, 2015-2016, 2018-2020.
Member, HASTAC Selection Committee, 2018-2020.
Chair, Major/Minor Committee, 2016-2018.
Member, Qualifying Exams Assessment Committee, 2012, 2015-2018.
Chair, Promotion & Tenure Committee, 2017.
Member, Third Year Review Committee, 2017, 2019.
Judge, Carol Lipson Outstanding Major Award, 2017, 2018.
Chair, Professional & Technical Writing/Rhetoric of Science Search, 2016.
Chair, Senior Lecturer in Professional & Technical Writing Search, 2016.
Member, Composition Literacies Search Committee, 2013-14.
Co-Chair, Major/Minor Committee, 2011-2012.
Founding Faculty Sponsor, SU Rhetoric Society of America chapter. 2011-2016.
Mentor, Future Professoriate Program. Syracuse Writing Program. 2009-present.

Colgate University
Member, VAP in Public Address Search Committee, 2021.

University of Minnesota
Founding Member, Committee on Graduate Student Community Development. 2007-2008.

Member, Falwell Hall Renovation Planning Committee. 2007-2008.

Chair, Graduate Technology Fees Committee. 2005-2007 (reappointed).

Public Engagement
“Pro ile: Dr. Krista Kennedy.” The Mind Hears: a blog by and for deaf and hard-of-hearing
academics. 3 manuscript pages. Nov. 10, 2021. https://themindhears.org/2021/11/10/
pro ile-krista-kennedy/

“Arti icial, but Intelligent?” Section on Rhetoric & Robots course included in “What Does
The Future Hold?” Colgate Magazine, Winter 2021. https://news.colgate.edu/magazine/
2021/02/09/what-does-the-future-hold/

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Quoted in Vanno, Phillip A. “As Texting Gains, Many See Quality of Writing Begin to Wane.”
IBOPE Insider, March 2012. I provided the contrarian opinion that writing quality is not
impacted by technological shifts.
Quoted in LaPeer, Heather, “All Inclusive: The Burton Blatt Institute advocates for the under-
represented disabled.” The Student Voice, Dec. 5, 2011. Spotlighted intersections of
disability and new media.

Quoted in Leider, JP, “Wiki and the U Student: Wikipedia Creates Controversy Over
Accuracy.” The Minnesota Daily, Oct. 17, 2006. https://mndaily.com/244771/news/world/
wiki-and-u-student/

Industry Positions
Business Development Associate, United Parcel Service, MidSouth District, 1995 – 2002.
Managed annual business plan of $11-16 million; provided personal point-of-contact for
shippers generating $5 million+ in annual revenue; coordinated district initiatives involving
40+ Account Executives in three states; served as District Liaison to Attorney General’s
of ice, Better Business Bureau, and corporate legal of ices.

Professional Memberships
Organizations
• Association of Internet Researchers
• Rhetoric Society of America
• Society for the History of Technology

Working Groups
• Central New York Humanities Corridor: “Health Humanities: Medicine, Illness,
Disability, Culture”
• Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine: “Measuring Aurality:
Interdisciplinary Histories of Disability, Technology, and Military Acoustics”

References
Available upon request.

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