- Associate Professor, Director of First-Year Writing
- Professional and Public Writing
- Email: stephwp@uri.edu
- Office Location: Roosevelt Hall, Rm 321
- Website
Biography
Dr. Stephanie West-Puckett’s research focuses on writing pedagogy and assessment with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Their scholarship has been published in journals such as College Composition and Communication, College English, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics as well as in several edited collections. Their co-authored book Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment (2023) received the Lavender Rhetorics Book Award, an honorable mention for the Advancement of Knowledge Award, and an honorable mention for Outstanding Book in Writing Studies from College Composition and Communication in 2024.
Education
- Ph.D., East Carolina University, 2017
- M.A., East Carolina University, 2001
- B.A., North Carolina Wesleyan College, 1997
Selected Publications
West-Puckett, Stephanie, Caswell, Nikki, and William P. Banks. (2023, April). Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment. Utah State University Press.
West-Puckett, Stephanie, Caswell, Nikki, and William P. Banks. (2023, September). Engaging Assessment Counterstories through a Cultural Rhetorics Framework. College Composition and Communication, 74.5.
West-Pucket, Stephanie. (2022, Spring). Crash Encounters: Negotiating Science Literacy and Its Sponsorship in a Crossdisciplinary, Cross-generational MOOC. Community Literacy Journal. 16:2. Available at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/communityliteracy/vol16/iss2/33
West-Puckett, Stephanie and Genoa Shepley. (2020). Radical museology/radical pedagogy: Curating Beyond Boundaries. Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, 4:1. http://journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/4-1-issue-west-puckett-shepley.
West-Puckett, Stephanie. (2016, November). Making Writing Assessment More Visible, Equitable, and Portable through Digital Badging. College English 79:2, 123-147.