Kirsti Cole

Area(s) of Expertise

Focus Areas: rhetoric and composition, writing enriched pedagogy, digital communication, digital rhetorical research methods, teacher research

Dr. Cole received her BA from the University of Montana in 1998 and her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2008. She studied at the University of London during her Bachelor’s program, and at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge University during her Ph.D. coursework. Dr. Cole became the Co-Director of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at NCSU in 2023. Prior to her appointment here she was Professor of English at Minnesota State University from 2008-2022. Dr. Cole was adjunct faculty at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Composition, adjunct faculty at Mesa Community College in Gender and Women’s Studies, and a Teaching Associate and Instructor at Arizona State University, Tempe and Polytechnic campuses.

Dr. Cole's teaching interests include digital writing instruction, graduate instruction in composition pedagogy, research methods, writing workshops, and cross disciplinary writing and assessment. Her research focuses on feminist rhetorics, feminist rhetorical methods and methodologies, digital rhetorics and social media, composition and communication, and motherhood studies.

Publications

• Where Policy Meets Position: Articulating Usable Disciplinary Knowledge for Administrative Spaces , Computer Love’: Extended Play, B-sides, Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity, CCCC Annual Conference (2025)
• Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Digital Rhetoric, Misinformation, and Trust , Trust under Threat: Challenges in a Digital Society (2024)
• Digital Collaboration: Modeling Writing and Editing Practices through Horizontal Mentoring , NKRF9: Rhetoric in Digital and Technological Transition (2024)
• Discursive Archetypes: Kamala Harris and Repositioning Stepmotherhood , 7th International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR) (2024)
• Out with the Old: Reconstructing Cognitive Models of Writing when AI Intervenes , ways2write \(w2w)/, EARLI SIG Writing (2024)
• Participant: Building the Two-Way Street: A Guide for Two-Year/Four-Year College Writing Program Partnerships , Watson Conference 2024 (2024)
• (E)merging Expertise: Multivocal, Multimodal Preparation and Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Writing Programs , Professionalizing Multimodal Composition (2023)
• A Faculty Guidebook for Effective Shared Governance and Service in Higher Education , (2023)
• Challenges to Neoliberal Parenting and The Rise of the Ideal Stepmother , (2023)
• Conclusion , (2023)