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Biography

Cheryl Hogue Smith began teaching at Kingsborough Community College in 2008. Prior to KCC, she taught at California State University, Bakersfield, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

Cheryl's areas of interest are teaching first-year composition, teaching college reading, writing and reading across the curriculum, multimodalities and multiliteracies, composition/rhetoric theory and practice, Shakespeare, teaching Shakespeare. Her work about teaching appears in TETYC, JBW, JAAL, English Journal, JTW, and Pedagogy and in several edited collections. She is currently co-editing two volumes about the teaching of Reading: College Teachers Teaching Reading: Practical Strategies for Postsecondary Readers and Open(ing) Access: Equity and Reading.

Courses

ENG 1200
ENG 2400
ENG 3000
ENG 6300

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, March 2006:  Composition Studies/English Education
B.A., University of Texas at San Antonio, May 1990: Humanities
M.A., California State University, Bakersfield, June 2000:  English

Awards Recognition, Distinctions and Grants

2020 Mark Reynolds TETYC Best Article Award: “Fractured Reading: Experiencing Students’ Thinking Habits” (Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 47.1, pp. 22-36);
2025 Nell Ann Picket Service Award, Two-Year College English Association (TYCA)

Institutional Affiliations/Professional Societies

Cheryl is the Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum Certification Coordinator. Outside of Kingsborough, she is an incoming editor for Teaching English in the Two-Year College, a Chair of the TYCA Reading Network, and a Fellow of the National Writing Project. She is a Past Chair of the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA), a former Executive Board Member for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and a former Program Director for Camp Shakespeare at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. 

Research Interests

College reading and writing
Writing and reading across the curriculum
Shakespeare
Literature