Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities - Paperback

by Vivian Kao (Editor), Julia Kiernan (Editor)

This edited collection positions writing at the center of interdisciplinary higher education, and explores how writing instruction, writing scholarship, and writing program administration bring STEM and the humanities together in meaningful, creative, and beneficial ways.

Author Biography

Vivian Kao is assistant professor of composition and coordinator of the first-year writing program at Lawrence Technological University. Her research interests include the teaching and learning of humanities and composition at STEM universities, literature/film adaptation, postcolonial studies, and the Victorian novel. Her monograph, Postcolonial Screen Adaptation and the British Novel, was published in 2020, and her work has appeared in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Composition Forum, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, and various literature journals.

Julia E. Kiernan is an assistant professor of communications at Lawrence Technological University. Her research and teaching are intimately linked, and regularly examine the shifting impacts of pedagogical and curricular design in the digital humanities, translingual and transnational writing, environmental sciences, and medical humanities. Julia's favored research methodology is active research, which focuses on the impacts of listening, reflection, and feedback throughout learning processes. Her work has appeared in a number of peer-reviewed edited collections as well as the journals Composition Forum, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Communication and Language at Work, Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, and Composition Studies.