Rate My Professor Kim Gunter

Her academic interests center on writing program administration, the teaching of academic writing, and queer, working-class, and Appalachian rhetorics. Gunter’s publications have appeared in leading journals such as QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, Enculturation, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and Composition Forum. Key works include “Transforming Academic Writing through Rhetorical Dialectic” in the Journal of Basic Writing (2011), “In Our Names: Rewriting the U.S. Death Penalty” (2011), “Advocacy, Independence, and the Painful Kairotic Moment for Rhetoric and Composition” in WPA: Writing Program Administration (2019), and “Curricular Success Amid Labor Instability: A WAC Program’s First Five Years” in Composition Forum (2024, co-authored). Prior to Fairfield, she co-developed writing programs at Appalachian State University. Actively engaged in university governance, Gunter has served on the Educational Planning Committee and General Faculty Senate. She organizes workshops on topics like feminist takes on queering pedagogy and community-engaged learning, moderates faculty writing events such as Professors Write!, and co-sponsors lectures on women’s rhetorics and grace in literature.