WIC Director, Kendon Kurzer

Kendon Kurzer, PhD, has established his career at the nexus of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and multilingual writing. He was the WAC director at the University of California, Davis, for four years and taught upper division writing classes in a variety of disciplines (engineering, business, food science, education, and health sciences), developmental/first year writing (primarily for multilingual students), and language support courses for international graduate students, as well as tutor support/teacher credential classes on English grammar and second language acquisition theories and pedagogies. Kendon has taught for 17 years across the higher education landscape (including at public and private research/teaching universities and community colleges). His research interests include best practices for supporting diverse student writers in their disciplines, generative AI use, technical writing, and supporting language acquisition in anti-racist manners. His work has appeared in The WAC Journal, TESOL Quarterly, Assessing Writing, and elsewhere.

Kendon is originally from Western Michigan and is a big fan of sustainable/local farming (you can take the boy out of the farm....). He looks forward to seeing what the Willamette Valley can produce!