Crystal VanKooten

Biography

Crystal VanKooten is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University, where she teaches courses in the Professional and Public Writing major, Rhetoric and Writing graduate programs, and in first-year writing, and serves as co-managing editor of The Journal for Undergraduate Multimedia Projects (JUMP+). Dr. VanKooten’s work focuses on digital media composition through an engagement with how technologies shape composition practices, pedagogy, and research. Her publications appear in journals that include College English, Computers and Composition, Enculturation, and Kairos. VanKooten’s digital book, Transfer across Media: Using Digital Video in the Teaching of Writing, was funded by a Conference on College Composition and Communication Emergent Research/er Award and is available online from Computers and Composition Digital Press. The book is a qualitative research project that provides an in-depth look at the experiences of eighteen first-year students as they completed different kinds of video composition assignments in their writing courses.