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Kathleen Blake Yancey, the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English at Florida State University, directs the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Past President of The Council of Writing Program Administrators, she is also a Past Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the largest scholarly organization for college writing faculty. Currently, she is President of the National Council of Teachers of English, a 50,000+ member organization of literacy educators from pre-K to graduate school. With Barbara Cambridge and Darren Cambridge, she directs the International Coalition on Electronic Portfolio Research, which has brought together over 40 institutions to focus on and document the learning that takes place inside and around electronic portfolios. And as part of her near-decade-long work with the middle and high schools in Virginia Beach, she is working with English teachers to develop a “new literacies” curriculum culminating in electronic portfolios.

Yancey is also the author, editor or co-editor of over 60 chapters and refereed articles and ten books, several of which focus on reflection, portfolios, and/or assessment. They include Portfolios in the Writing Classroom (1992), Assessing Writing across the Curriculum (1997), Self-Assessment and Development in Writing (2000), Situating Portfolios (1997), and Reflection in the Writing Classroom. The section editor for student portfolios in the AAHE publication Electronic Portfolios (2001), she guest edited the 1996 issue of Computers and Composition dedicated to electronic portfolios. In the June 2004 issue of College Composition and Communication, she published an analysis of electronic portfolios that contrasts them with print portfolios and that defines them as “web-sensible” digital compositions. In summer, 2008, Stylus Publishing will release her co-edited volume (with Barbara Cambridge and Darren Cambridge), Electronic Portfolios 2.0, which documents the electronic portfolio projects on many campuses, in general education programs, and in various disciplinary contexts.

If there is a theme in her work, it’s the teaching and learning that is fostered through the reflective activities we see in both print and digital portfolios.