Kevin G. Smith

Kevin G. Smith is an associate professor of English and director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Virginia. He holds a Ph.D. in English, with a specialization in rhetoric and composition, from Northeastern University, as well as an M.A. in New Media Studies from DePaul University and a B.A. in English from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Smith’s research and teaching focus on writing studies, digital and multimodal writing, community and public writing, higher education, and learning science and pedagogy. He is a coauthor of Getting Learning Right: The Promise of Higher Education, published by MIT Press with Chris W. Gallagher and Kristi Girdharry.