People
Faculty
Heidi A. McKee
Titles
- Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D., English (concentration, Composition and Rhetoric) University of Massachusetts Amherst, May 2005
- M.A., English, University of Wyoming
- B.A., English, Yale University
Teaching and Research Interests
Heidi McKee’s teaching and research interests include computer and technological literacies, multimodal/digital rhetorics, composition pedagogies (including teaching and learning online), qualitative research methodologies, and ethical research practices. She is an active faculty member in the English Department’s Digital Writing Collaborative. She also serves as co-chair of the national group, the Qualitative Research Network.
Selected Publications and presentations
Edited Collections
- McKee, Heidi A., & DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole, (Eds.) (2007). Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues. Cresskill: Hampton Press. Winner of the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award for the best book in the field in 2007.
- McKee, Heidi A., & DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole, (Guest Eds.) (2003 & 2004). Computers and Composition: Special 20th-Anniversary Issues, 20.4 & 21.1.
Refereed Articles
- Mckee, Heidi A. & Porter, Jim. (in press June 2008). “The ethics of digital writing research: A rhetorical approach.” College Composition and Communication.
- Sumit, Sircar, Fetzer, Ron, Patterson, Jim, & McKee, Heidi. (in press). “An assessment of electronic portfolios across the curriculum.” Journal on Excellence in College Teaching.
- McKee, Heidi A. (2008). “Researching in a digital media matrix: Methodological, ethical, and legal challenges.” Computers and Composition 25, 104-122.
- McKee, Heidi A. & Blair, Kris. (2007). “Older adults and community-based technological literacy programs: Barriers & benefits to learning.” Community Literacy Journal 1(2), 12-39. (lead article)
- McKee, Heidi A. (2006). “Sound matters: Notes toward the analysis and design of sound in multimodal web works.” Computers and Composition 23, 335-354.
- McKee, Heidi A. (2005). Richard Lanham’s The Electronic Word and AT/THROUGH oscillations. Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 5(1).
- McKee, Heidi A. (2004). “Always a shadow of hope”: Heteronormative binaries in an online discussion of sexuality and sexual orientation. Computers and Composition 21, 315-340. (This issue of Computers and Composition won the Ellen Nold Award for most significant contribution to the field in 2004.)
- Houle, Brian, Kimball, Alex, & McKee, Heidi. (2004). “boy? you decide girl? you decide”: Multimodal web composition and the mythography of identity. Computers and Composition Online, www.bgsu.edu/cconline/theory.htm. (Awarded Runner-up for Best Refeered Academic Web Article published in 2005.)
- McKee, Heidi. (2003). Examining the process of institutional review board compliance. College Composition and Communication, 54, 488-493.
- McKee, Heidi. (2002). “YOUR VIEWS SHOWED TRUE IGNORANCE!!!: (Mis)Communication in an Online Interracial Discussion Forum.” Computers and Composition, 19, 411-434.
Chapters
- Edwards, Michael E., & McKee, Heidi A. (2005). “The teaching and learning of web genres in first-year composition.” In Anne Herrington & Charles Moran (Eds.), Genre across the curriculum. Logan: Utah State Press. pp. 196-218.
Editorial Work
- DeVoss,Danielle Nicole, Hawisher, Gail, McKee, Heidi A., Selfe, Cynthia, Selfe, Dickie, Ulman, Lewis H. Editors. Computers and Composition Digital Press. (official opening, March 2008)
- McKee, Heidi A., & DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole, (Eds.) (2007). Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues (pp. 1-24). Creskill: Hampton Press.
- McKee, Heidi A., & DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole. (2007). Interview about Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues. Computers and Composition Online. http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/interview/index.htm
- McKee, Heidi, & DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole. (2003). “Letter from the guest editors.” Computers and Composition, Special 20th-Anniversary Issues, 20.4 & 21.1, 325-331.
Work in Progress
- McKee, Heidi A. & Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia. (under review). “Digital writing and programmatic and curricular assessment: Multimodal triangulation.”
- McKee, Heidi A., & Porter, James E. (chapter accepted, collection under review). “Researching Rhetorica Online: Feminist Research Practices in Cyberspace.” In Eileen Schell & Kelly Rawson, Eds. Rhetorica in Motion.
- Alexander, Phill, Carsey, Kerrie, Dubisar, Abby, Fedeczko, Wioleta, Landrum, Denise, Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia, McKee, Heidi, Moore, Kristen, Patterson, Gina, & Polak, Michele. (chapter accepted, collection under review). “Going multimodal: Programmatic, curricular, and classroom change.” In Whithaus, Carl & Bowen, Tracey, Eds. Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres in Student Compositions.
- McKee, Heidi A. (chapter proposal accepted) “Researching in a Digital Media Matrix: Methodological, Ethical, and Legal Challenges.” In Jonathan Alexander, Ed. Computers and Composition, Special Issue on Media Convergences.
- DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole, McKee, Heidi A., & Selfe, Richard, (Eds.) (edited collection, under review). Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment.
- McKee, Heidi A. , & Porter, James E. The Ethics of Digital Writing Research. (book in research/proposal stage)
Grants and Awards
- Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award for Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues.