Kristin VanEyk joined the English faculty at 快猫短视频 in 2021. She teaches primarily writing and English education courses, but also interdisciplinary courses about faith, leadership development and rhetoric. Before earning her Ph.D. and beginning her work at Hope, Kristin was a high school English teacher.

Areas of Expertise

Kristin鈥檚 research explores critical language awareness in the secondary English education classroom and the ways that school settings contribute to people鈥檚 ideas about the politics of language. Kristin is particularly interested in where people鈥檚 attitudes about language use come from, and how the English classroom can promote more generous and curious attitudes about language. A lifelong Christian educator, Kristin also studies the development of English teacher knowledge and attitudes and the impact of teacher faith on practice.

Education

• Ph.D., joint program in English and education, University of Michigan, 2021
• M.Ed., educational leadership, Calvin University, 2012
• B.A., English, secondary education; minor in teaching English as a second language (TESOL), Calvin University, 2006

Honors, Grants and Awards

• Jacob E. Nyenhuis Faculty Development Grant, 快猫短视频, 2022
• Diamond Best Dissertation Award, School of Education, University of Michigan, 2022
• Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan 2016鈥�2021

Published Work

• 鈥淭he Politics of Prescriptivism: Two Style Manuals, One Century,鈥� with Anne Curzan, American Speech, forthcoming 2023
• 鈥淪tandardization and Linguistic Subordination,鈥� with Anne Curzan, Robin Queen and Rachel Weisler, Daedalus, forthcoming 2023
• 鈥�What Women Write: On Decanting Elbow Macaroni and Saying Goodbye to Ghost Trains,鈥� Writing on the Edge, 31,  1鈥�2, fall 2020鈥搒pring 2021

Presentations

• 鈥淟iteracies of Decolonizing: Strategies of Marginalized Peoples,鈥� CCCC Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, March 2023
• 鈥淧ulling Roots: Emergent Hospitality from the Soil of Decoloniality,鈥� MLA International Symposium, Glasgow, Scotland, June 2022
• 鈥淪hifting Code-Meshing Pedagogies Toward Practices of Rhetorical Agency,鈥� CCCC Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, March 2022
• 鈥淵our Voice is Kind of Muffled: Multilingual Student Talk about the Commons of Classroom Discourse,鈥� CCCC Annual Convention, Spokane, Washington, April 2021 (virtual)
• 鈥淢ultilingual Students and the Cultural Commons of Classroom Discourse,鈥� CCCC Annual Convention, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 2020 (conference canceled due to COVID 19)
• 鈥淟istening to Lost Voices: Humanizing Ethnographic Methods,鈥� MLA International Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2019
• 鈥淭ranslingual Pedagogy and Student-Instructor Negotiated Projects,鈥� Watson Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, October 2018
• 鈥淒ecolonizing Writing Studies Rhetoric: 50 Years of (De)coloniality in RTE, 1967-2017,鈥� CCCC Annual Convention, Kansas City, Missouri, March 2018

Outside the College

When she鈥檚 not in the classroom, Kristin loves to travel with her spouse, Dirk, and her two kids, Lily and Colin. Kristin also enjoys baking (eating) bread, drinking coffee and walking endless loops around her block with her husband. Kristin and her family are active members of their church, Encounter Church.