Kendon Kurzer
Kendon Kurzer (no pronoun preference; most default to he/him) has established his career at the nexus of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and multilingual writing with degrees in education/composition (PhD), Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and applied linguistics. At OSU, he is the Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC) Director, a position in which he supports writing instruction across campus, and is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film. He was the WAC director at the University of California, Davis, for four years and taught upper division writing classes in a variety of disciplines (engineering, business, food science, education, and health sciences), developmental/first year writing (primarily for multilingual students), and language support courses for international graduate students, as well as tutor support/teacher credential classes on English grammar and second language acquisition theories and pedagogies. Kendon has taught for 17 years across the higher education landscape (including at public and private research/teaching universities and community colleges).
His research interests include best practices for supporting diverse student writers in their disciplines, generative AI use, technical writing, and supporting language acquisition in anti-racist manners. His work has appeared in The WAC Journal (in two consecutive issues), TESOL Quarterly, Assessing Writing, and elsewhere. He recently received a large grant with colleagues at two other institutions to explore generative AI use and literacy in gateway writing and math courses. Kendon is the current editor of the Second-Language Writing Section of the WAC Clearinghouse.
Kendon is originally from Western Michigan and is a big fan of sustainable/local farming (you can take the boy out of the farm....). He looks forward to seeing what the Willamette Valley can produce!