Faculty Co-Director
Dr. Linda Adler-Kassner is Professor of Writing Studies and Associate Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Learning at University of California Santa Barbara. A writing teacher for more than 35 years, she has taught undergraduate courses like first year writing (aka freshman composition) and writing and civic engagement and graduate courses on writing program leadership, writing theory, and assessment; she was awarded the UCSB Distinguished Teaching Award in 2015.
Her research focuses on how people and institutions define and enact ideas associated with “good learning” via policy, practice, and infrastructure. She works extensively with faculty and institutions around the U.S. and internationally on designing more equitable, just, and inclusive learning. She is author, co-author, or co-editor of twelve books and more than 60 article and book chapters and has led multiple grant-funded initiatives at UCSB.
She is the Co-Director of the Yardi Scholars for Environmental Justice Program and Director of the Arnhold Innovative Teaching and Learning Initiative (in Arts and Humanities) at UCSB. She has also held multiple leadership positions at UCSB — Director of the Writing Program, interim Co-Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education among them. She is also past chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.