Kristian Stewart, Ed.D.

Teaching Professor
Kristi
College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters
Language, Culture, and the Arts

Teaching Areas:

Composition and Rhetoric

Biography and Education

Dr. Kristian Stewart is a digital storytelling and literacy practitioner. In this context, she conducts research and teaches university-level writing courses grounded in "glocal" literacy theory, the affective turn in social justice pedagogies, and methods to disrupt/decolonize the curriculum. She also creates and teaches writing courses that combine U.S. students with international partners, which include EAP/ESOL pedagogical approaches.

Education

  • Ed.D, Curriculum & Practice 
  • M.S. in Language Education 
  • B.S. in English Education

Teaching and Research

Research

Digital storytelling, "glocal" literacy, international writing course collaboration & design, co-teaching partnerships, humanizing pedagogy, decolonizing curriculum, peace literacy, comparative higher education, South Africa.

Selected Publications

  • Stewart, K., & Motala, S. (2023). You map our world; We write yours. Routledge.
  • Stewart, K., & Burke, C. (2022).'Can we call this racism?' YES! Disrupting White educational spaces and affirming students' positive 'possible selves.'
  • Motala, S., & Stewart, K. (2021). Hauntings across the divide: Transdisciplinary activism, dualisms, and the ghosts of racism in engineering and humanities education.
  • Stewart, K. (2019). Restorying South Africa: A digital storytelling praxis for preparing historically conscious teachers.
  • Stewart, K. (2017). Classrooms as 'safe houses?': The ethical and affective implications of digital storytelling in a university writing classroom.

Awards and Recognition

  • Named Fulbright Specialist in 2023. Will serve Fulbright for a 3-year term.
  • Plenary Address, " We Don't Walk the World Alone: Developing a Humanizing and Spatial Gaze for Cultural Understanding. Fulbright Annual Reception, Jefferson House, Residence of the United States Ambassador
    to Greece, Athens, Greece. See "Educational Exchange, Fostering Global Understanding and Empowering Future Citizen Ambassadors."
  • Fulbright Scholar Award, Greece, 2022.
  • Collegiate Lecturer Award / Former Distinguished Teaching Award winner, 2021.
  • Keynote Address, "Putting the Human Back into the Humanities." 14th Annual Conference on Language, Culture, and Education. Singapore, 2019.