Biography
Professor Ritter is Associate Dean of Curricula and Academic Policy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Research Interests
Archival Studies and Historiography; Writing Program Administration; Composition Theory; Pedagogical Theory; Digital Rhetorics and Online Discourse
Education
- Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1997
- M.F.A., University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, 1994
- B.A., University of Iowa
Courses Taught
- English 593: Rhetoric Proseminar
- English 582: Historiographies of Writing
- English 583: Writing Program Administration
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, English
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Recent Publications
Ianetta, M., & Ritter, K. A. (2018). Canon Fodder? Surveying Our WPA Landmarks. In K. Ritter, & M. Ianetta (Eds.), Landmark Essays on Writing Program Administration CRC Press.
Ritter, K. A., & Ianetta, M. (Eds.) (2018). Landmark Essays in Writing Program Administration. (Landmark Essays Series). Routledge.
Ritter, K. A. (2018). Making (Collective) Memory Public: WPA Histories in Dialogue. WPA: Writing Program Administration, 41(2).
Ritter, K. (2018). With “Increased Dignity and Importance": Re-Historicizing Charles Roberts and the Illinois Decision of 1955. College Composition and Communication, 69(3), 458-493.
Ritter, K. (2017). A question of mimetics: Graduate-student writing courses and the new “basic”. In B. Horner, B. Nordquist, & S. M. Ryan (Eds.), Economies of Writing: Revaluations in Rhetoric and Composition (pp. 112-130). Utah State University Press. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781607325239.c008