RYAN P. SHEPHERD

I am an Associate Professor and the Director of First-Year Composition in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University. My research focuses on composition, multimodality, learning transfer, and the connections between them. I am committed to building better writing pedagogy. My research has appeared in Computers & Composition, Composition Studies, Composition Forum, the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and the Journal of Response to Writing. I have an upcoming edited collection, Multimodal Composition and Writing Transfer, due out in fall of 2023... As part of my position as Director of First-Year Writing, I oversee the orientation for new graduate teaching assistants in the program. I am deeply invested in the success of the undergraduate writing program and development of effective curricula and meaningful policy and oversight. In addition, I teach graduate classes in composition pedagogy, multimodality, learning transfer, and writing across contexts. I am a primary..