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Katherine Daily O’Meara
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Kat O'Meara

Assistant Professor of English and Dir of Writing Across the Curriculum Program
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Katherine Daily O’Meara is an assistant professor of English and the director of Writing Across the Curriculum at SNC. A member of the college faculty since 2020, O’Meara specializes in rhetoric and composition and writing studies, writing program administration and second language (L2) writing.

Her classes incorporate engagement-based grading contracts, which is a type of ungraded assessment ecology that prioritizes student agency and choice. Students in her classes engage with a variety of texts and modalities, and they compose in a wide array of authentic, real-life genres for different audiences and purposes. Students can expect to learn through extensive feedback (response to student writing) and revision in her courses.

  • ENGL 313 Writing for the World (Core: EI)
  • ENGL 290 Introduction to Writing Studies
  • ENGL 306 Professional Writing
  • IDIS 100 College Writing
  • LIST 550 Diverse Perspectives/BUAD 589 Special Topics - Anti-Racist and Inclusive Pedagogy/Practice
  • LIST 588 Capstone

  • B.A. – Carroll College (now Carroll University), English
  • M.A. – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, English (Linguistics and TESOL)
  • Ph.D. – Arizona State University, English (Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies)

  • Writing across the curriculum
  • Writing program administration
  • Antiracist, accessible and equitable assessment pedagogies

“What is Gained in Translation: Lessons from a WPA in Liminal Space.” Accepted by Joe Janangelo and Mark Blaauw-Hara (Eds.), Understanding WPA Readiness and Renewal. [Accepted by University Press of Colorado; publication forthcoming 2023-4]

“Learning, Representing, and Endorsing the Landscape: WPA as Cartographer.” (2023) In Lilian Mina, Patti Poblete, and Lydia Wilkes (Eds.), Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration. Utah State University Press. Available at https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/6259-toward-more-sustainable-metaphors-of-writing-program-administration

“Teaching Tip: Building Response into Labor-Based Grading Contracts.” (2022) Journal of Response to Writing 8(1). Retrieved from https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/journalrw/vol8/iss1/4/

“Multilingual Pedagogy as Antiracist Pedagogy: Re-Envisioning the Inclusive (ELL) Classroom and Writing Program.” (2021) The Wisconsin English Journal, special issue ELL Outreach and Teaching Strategies, 63(2), 38-61. Retrieved from https://wejournal.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/3.pdf

“Providing Sustained Support for Teachers and Students in the L2 Writing Classroom Using Writing Fellow Tutors.” (2016) Journal of Response to Writing, 2(2), 66-87. Retrieved from https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/journalrw/vol2/iss2/4/