William Kist is an associate professor at Kent State University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focused on adolescent literacy. He has been a middle school and high school English teacher; a Language Arts and Social Studies curriculum coordinator; and a consultant and trainer for school districts across the United States. Kist has over 30 national and international conference presentations and 10 published articles to his credit, including his book New Literacies in Action: Teaching and Learning in Multiple Media (2005, Teachers College Press). In addition to his work in education, Kist has worked as a video/film producer and musician. Kist is editing one independent feature film, Summer’s Journey, and is developing his original screenplay, Field Trip, to be filmed as an independent feature in 2008.
- New Literacies/Multimodal Literacy
- Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum
- Motivating Middle School and High School Students
- Curriculum Audits