Assistant Professor & Director of Composition
English
Contact
kilfoilc@ccsu.edu
Office
Willard-DiLoreto Hall
401-34
Monday
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Tuesday
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Wednesday
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Thursday
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Education
Ph.D. English, Rhetoric and Composition
University of Louisville
2014
MA, British Literature
University of Kentucky
2005
BA, English Literature & History (double-major)
Miami University
2002
Professional Diploma, Digital Learning Design
The Digital Learning Institute/Glasgow Caledonian University
2024
W.B. Yeats International Summer School
2003
Areas of Expertise

Rhetoric and Composition, Translingual and Transnational Writing, Teacher Training, Online Writing Instruction

Publications, Research & Presentations

Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition. Co-edited with Nancy Bou Ayash. Utah State University Press: 2023.

“The Postmonolingual Condition and the Rhetoric and Composition Ph.D: Norming Language Difference in a Doctoral Program” Composition Forum 40 (Fall 2018) <https://compositionforum.com/issue/40/postmonolingual.php>

“The Linguistic Memory of Composition and the Rhetoric and Composition Ph.D.: Forgetting (and Remembering) Language and Language Difference in Doctoral Curricula” Composition Studies 42.2 (2017): 130-150.

“Beyond the ‘Foreign’ Language Requirement: From a Monolingual to a Translingual Ideology in Rhetoric and Composition Graduate Education.” Rhetoric Review 34.4 (2015): 426-444.

“Beyond ‘English-Only’ in U.S. Writing Instruction: Fostering Translingual Dispositions in Writing Teacher Education” with Bruce Horner. Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education: From Theory to Practice. Eds. Robert Wilkinson and Mary Louise Walsh. Peter Lang, 2015: 149-160.

“The Nature and Value of Work in Rhetoric and Composition” JAC 32.3-4 (2012): 731-7.

Courses Taught

WRT 100 Basic Writing

WRT 105 Enhanced Introduction to College Writing

WRT 110 Introduction to College Writing

WRT 202 Intermediate Composition (Introduction to Writing Studies)

WRT 401 Advanced Composition (Writing About Cultures and Communities)