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    Jennifer M. Cunningham

    Jennifer M. Cunningham

    Department of English
    Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
    Office Location:
    330-672-1747
    Contact Information
    Email:
    jcunni17@kent.edu

    Biography

    Dr. Jennifer M. Cunningham is a professor of English who started her career at Kent State on the Stark campus where she served as the Chair of the Stark English Writing Program Committee. She now serves as the Writing Program Coordinator for the University/English Department. Focusing much of her teaching and research on online writing instruction (OWI), she has developed and taught fully online undergraduate courses such as College Writing and Research Writing, Composition Theory, and Gender & Language. She also teaches a hybrid graduate course for all new teaching assistants and dual-enrollment instructors in the English department.

     

    Among other scholarly activities, she is the current Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Online Writing Instruction (OWI) Standing Group and is currently investigating the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework as it applies to OWI and peer review. Along with her research team (Mary K. Stewart, Lyra Hilliard, and Natalie Stillman-Webb), she was awarded the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Emergent Researcher Award for “Cross-Institutional Study of Communities of Inquiry in Blended and Online Composition Courses.”

     

    Selected Publications

     

    Snart, J., Borgman, J., Cunningham, J. M., Stillman-Webb, N., Whetstone, J., Skurat Harris, H, McArdle, C., Mahaffy, C., Hilliard, L., Stewart, M. K., & Warnock, S. (2024). OWI: A future of challenge and opportunity, Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 28(2).

     

    Cunningham, J. M., Stillman-Webb, N., Hilliard, L.  & Stewart, M. K. (2023). Conceptualizing time in hybrid and online writing instruction and program administration. In Leigh Graziano, L., K. Halasek, R. Hudgins, S. Miller-Cochran, F. Napolitano, & N. Szymanski, (Eds.), Making Administrative Work Visible: Data-Driven Advocacy for Understanding the Labor of Writing Program Administration (pp. 217-229). Utah State University Press.

     

    Stewart, M. K., Cunningham, J. M., Hilliard, L. & Stillman-Webb, N. (2022). The how and what of learning in hybrid and online FYC: A multi-institutional survey study of student perceptions. College Composition and Communication, 73(4), 739-773.

     

    Cunningham, J. M., Stillman-Webb, N., Hilliard, L., & Stewart, M. K. (2022). Synchronicity over modality: Understanding hybrid and online writing students' experiences with peer review. Composition Forum, 48. 17 pages.

    Cunningham, J. M. (2019). Composition students' opinions of and attention to instructor feedback, Journal of Response to Writing, 5(1), 4-38.

     

    Online Writing Instruction Standing Group: Borgman, J., Mahaffey, C., Snart, J., Cunningham, J. M., Stillman-Webb, N., Hilliard, L., Stewart, M., McArdle, C., Harris, H. S., Warnock, S., Whetstone, J. (2021). The 2021 state of the art of OWI report. Conference on College Composition and Communication.

     

    Cunningham, J. M. (2018). “wuz good wit u bro”: Patterns of digital African American language use in two modes of communication, Computers and Composition, 48, 67-84.

     

    Cunningham, J. M. (2017). African American language is not good English. In Loewe, D. M. & Ball, C. E. (Eds.), Bad ideas about writing (pp. 88-92). Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Libraries. 

     

    Cunningham, J. M. (2016). The Bedford Bibliography of Research in Online Writing Instruction.  Skurat Harris, H. (Ed.), Boston: Bedford/St. Martin. (annotator)

     

    Cunningham, J. M. (2015). Digital African American language: A corpus analysis of text messages. In Thomas, P. & Takayoshi, P. (Eds.), Literacy in practice: Writing in private, public, and working lives (pp. 58-70). New York, NY: Routledge.

     

    Cunningham, J. M. (2015). Mechanizing people and pedagogy: Establishing social presence in the online classroom, Online Learning, 19(3), 34-47.

     

    Cunningham, J. M. (2014). The features and functions of digital African American language, Written Communication, 31(4), 404-433. 

     

    Cunningham, J. M. (2014). Literacy and identity when approximating African American language on social network sites. Journal of Literacy and Technology, 15(1), 54-77.

     

    Cunningham, J. M. (2011). I love Annie Dillard’s mother: A linguistic analysis of ‘Terwilliger bunts one,’ RASK: International Journal of Language and Communication, 34, 77-105.

     

    Cunningham, J. M. (2011). Actively and critically learning: The pedagogical importance of student affinity, Journal of Teaching Writing, 25(2), 223-238.

    Awards/Achievements

    • 2018 Computers and Composition Ellen Nold Best Article Award
    • 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Emergent Researcher Award (with Mary K. Stewart, Lyra Hilliard, and Natalie Stillman-Webb)

    Documents

    PDF icon Jennifer Cunningham CV 2024 brief.pdf
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