Contact Information

Office: 4177 JFSB

Phone: 422-4775

Email: kristine_hansen@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses English 315 (Writing in the Social Sciences)
English 616 (Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition)
History of Civilization

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013:

ENGL 211/Honors 201
MWF 10:00-10:50
205 MSRB


Other University Assignments:
Director, University Internship Office
President, BYU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi

Student Consultaions:
TTh 1:00-2:30 or by appointment

Vita: Link to Vita

Biography:

Kristine Hansen specializes in rhetoric and composition, with particular focuses on writing in academic disciplines, composition theory and pedagogy, and research methods. She has been a professor at BYU since 1987. From 1999-2003 she served as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education with responsibility for University Writing Programs. She previously served as the Coordinator of English Composition, 1990-93, and as Associate Coordinator, 1988-1990. In this role, Professor Hansen taught and supervised over two hundred graduate students engaged in teaching English 115, College Writing and Reading. For her administrative leadership she received an Alcuin Fellowship in General Education from 1991-1994, and she was named Karl G. Maeser Professor of General Education from 1998-2001. In 2005, she was honored with the Karl G. Maeser Excellence in Teaching Award, and she gave the Barker Lecture in the College of Humanities. She has published articles in College Composition and Communication, Research in the Teaching of English, Writing Program Administration, and English Journal, and chapters in numerous edited collections. She is co-editor of a collection of essays, Resituating Writing: Constructing and Administering Writing Programs (with Joseph Janangelo), to which she also contributed a chapter. She has published a textbook, A Rhetoric for the Social Sciences [Prentice Hall (1998), reissued in 2003 and 2007 as Writing in the Social Sciences: A Rhetoric with Readings]. She has served on the executive board of the Council of Writing Program Administrators and currently serves on the editorial board of the WPA Journal . She is also active in several other professional organizations. A native of Delta, Utah, Dr. Hansen comes from a family of nine children. She graduated from Delta High School in 1969 and from BYU in 1973 with a BA in English. After serving an LDS mission in northern Germany from 1974-75, she returned to BYU and began MA work in TESOL, receiving her degree in 1981. From 1977-82, she worked at BYU as a writer of courseware for a computer-assisted learning system called TICCIT (now called CLIPS) and as manager of Learning Services. She started PhD work at the University of Texas at Austin in 1982 and completed her degree in 1987. She lives in Orem and likes to read, cook, hike, travel, and attend plays and concerts in her leisure time.

Degrees: PhD, U of Texas, Austin, 1987

Interests:

Rhetorical Research and Pedagogy