Kristi Costello
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Kristi Murray Costello, Ph.D. (she, her) is the Associate Chair of Writing Studies and an Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies at Old Dominion University. She has a PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and Creative Writing from Binghamton University. Dr. Costello currently serves as the Four-Year College Chair of Writing Across Virginia, a Council of Writing Program Administrators affiliate organization and is a recipient of the College Composition and Communication Certificate of Writing Program Excellence.
Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research
- Grippo, A. and Costello, K. M. "Writing to Read in STEM. " $300,000. Federal. May 2017 -
Expertise
Research Interests
Dr. Costello is an editor of the 2020 Utah State University Press collection, The Things We Carry: Strategies for Recognizing and Negotiating Emotional Labor in Writing Program Administration, co-edited alongside Courtney Adams Wooten, Jacob Babb, and Kate Navickas. She has published articles and reviews in the WPA Journal, Composition Forum, The Peer Review, Kairos, Women in Higher Education, and The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, among others. She has served as an Associate Editor on two editions of Parlor Press’ Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition and has chapters in several edited collections, including: Making Administrative Work Visible: Data-Driven Approaches to Understanding the Labor of Writing Program Administration, co-written with Kate Navickas and edited by Leigh Graziano, Kay Halasek, Susan Miller Cochran, Frank Napolitano, and Natalie Szymanski; Affect & Emotion in the Writing Center, co-written with Kate Navickas and Tabatha Simpson-Farrow and edited by Janine Morris and Kelly Anne Concannon Mannise; Ecologies of Writing Programs: Profiles of Writing Programs in Context, co-written with Kelly Kinney and edited by Christian Weisser, Michelle Ballif, Anis Bawarshi, Mary Jo Reiff; and Tricia Serviss and Sandra Jamieson’s Points of Departure: Rethinking Student Source Use and Writing Studies Research Methods, among others. Her current research explores emotional labor and the rhetoric of Long COVID.
Articles
- (2018). “From Combat Zones to Contact Zones: The Value of Listening in Writing Center Administration.”. The Peer Review.
Book Chapters
- “Recognizing, Understanding, and Mitigating G.A. Writing Center Consultants’ Emotional Labor.” Wellness And Self-Care Collection WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.
- Navickas, K. and Costello, K. Murray. “Naming What We Feel: Self-Dialogue as a Strategy for Negotiating Emotional Labor in WPA Work.” Making Administrative Work Visible: Data-Driven Approaches to Understanding the Labor of Writing Program Administration. Utah University Press.
- (2018). “In Their Own Words: Student Responses Illuminate Dissatisfaction and Differences Regarding FYW Research.” Points of Departure: Rethinking Student Source Use and Writing Studies Research Methods Utah University Press.
- Costello, K. Murray . and Shovlin, P. (2015). “A New Generation: Adapting Writing Courses to Meet the Needs of Generation 1.5 Learners.” Teaching U.S.-Educated Multilingual Writers: Practices from and for the Classroom. University of Michigan Press.
- Kinney, K. and Costello, K. Murray. (2015). “Back to the Future, the Sequel: Five Years of First-Year Writing at Binghamton University.” Ecologies of Writing Programs: Profiles of Writing Programs in Context. Parlor Press.