Director and Co-Founder of the Binghamton University Writing Initiative and Assistant Professor of English, General Literature and Rhetoric
Kinney holds a PhD in rhetoric and composition from Ohio University, an MA in rhetoric and composition from the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and a BA in political science and English from Purdue University. Prior to joining the Binghamton faculty in 2007, she was Coordinator of First-Year Writing at the University of Notre Dame. She is currently at work on a solo monograph on the intersections of writing program administration and graduate student labor, and a co-edited collection (with Rebecca Moore Howard) on pedagogies derived from The Citation Project, a sixteen-institution research collective studying how students use sources. Kinney serves on the Executive Board of both the State University of New York Council on Writing and the national Council of Writing Program Administrators. She is the winner of the Binghamton University STAR Award for Service (2009), the Council of Writing Program Administrators Research Grant Award (2010), and (with Kristi Murray Costello and Mark Brantner) the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Certificate of Writing Program Excellence (2011). Her work has been published in a range of scholarly journals, including Kairos, WPA Journal, Composition Forum, Composition Studies, and other venues.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetorics
Danberg holds a PhD in composition and cultural rhetoric from Syracuse University (2010), his MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College, and his BA in English from the State University of New York at Purchase. He has taught writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Syracuse University, Cornell University, Ithaca College, and Onondaga Community College, as well as in adult education programs, at-risk students programs, and adult literacy programs. His scholarly interests include the theory and practice of teaching and learning, creativity and the imagination, and Jewish literature and culture.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetorics
Shovlin helped to design WRIT 110 with Kristi Murray Costello. He earned his PhD (2010) in rhetoric and composition from Ohio University, where he also earned his MA and BA in English language and literature. Prior to joining the faculty in 2010, he held the position of Interim Director of the Center for Writing Excellence at Ohio University, taught English as a second language for the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe, and supported community literacy programs in Brooklyn, NY. His scholarly interests include new media studies, critical pedagogy, the art of the personal essay, and rhetorics of technology and popular culture.
Associate Director of First-Year Writing
Murray Costello coordinates WRIT 100 and, with Paul Shovlin, helped create WRIT 110. Murray Costello earned her PhD (2009) in creative writing from Binghamton University, where she completed two field exams in writing and rhetoric studies and a third in creative nonfiction and poetry. She earned her MA in rhetoric and composition and her BA in English Literature with a minor in small press publishing from the English Department at Southeast Missouri State University. For the last eight years, she has taught writing and worked closely with various components of TRIO, including Gear Up, Upward Bound, Student Support Services, and the Educational Opportunity Program.
Director of the Writing Center
Stewart earned her MA in English from the University of Saskatchewan and, while pursuing her PhD at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, taught writing and reading in various disciplinary contexts. She has also taught suicide prevention and crisis intervention and communication. Her work inside and outside the academy aids her in working with tutors and writers, and reinforces her commitment to helping people come to voice in scholarly and civic contexts.
The Writing Initiative also benefits from strategic alliances with faculty and administrators across the university, including Associate Professor of English and Hinman College Faculty Master, Al Vos, a regular instructor of WRIT 111, and Director of the English as a Second Language Program, Jennifer Brondell.
