Dr. Crystal N. Fodrey is a writing teacher-scholar-consultant at the University of Louisville who empirically studies the activity of writing, broadly conceived, across disciplines within higher education and professional contexts. She is the 2025-26 Chair of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and was awarded the Best WAC Article or Chapter Focused on Pedagogy, Theory, or Practice at the 2025 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference for her article “The Future of WAC Is Multimodal and Transfer-Supporting.” Her work primarily focuses on the activities of teaching writing and administering writing programs, and she advocates for curricular change in response to contextually situated evidence. Before joining the Department of English at UofL in 2024, she directed the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Writing Program Certificate of Excellence award-winning writing across the curriculum (WAC) program at Moravian University in Bethlehem, PA for ten years. She teaches courses focusing on writing studies research, rhetorical theory, professional and public writing, and creative nonfiction. Her scholarship appears in Across the Disciplines, The WAC Journal, Composition Forum, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, and in various edited collections, including The Centrality of Style, Designing and Implementing Multimodal Curricula and Programs, Multimodal Composition: Faculty Development Programs and Institutional Change, Writing Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges and the Council of Writing Program Administrator’s 2021 Best Book Award-winning Writing-Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental Transformation.
Dr. Crystal N. Fodrey 