Christy Goldsmith is the Associate Director of the Campus Writing Program and an Assistant Teaching Professor of English Education at the University of Missouri. She was the former president of the Missouri Council of Teachers of English (MoCTE) and is a teacher-consultant in the Missouri Writing Projects Network (MWPN) where she frequently interacts with stakeholders at the state department of education and in Missouri public schools.

These roles, combined with Christy’s eight years of high school English teaching experience, provide her opportunities to work closely with practicing teachers seeking to improve their literacy instruction in both secondary and postsecondary settings. As the emphasis area coordinator for the English Education undergraduate degree program at Mizzou, Christy teaches courses and mentors other instructors in methods of teaching literature, writing, and media literacy. Further, through her inquiry into teachers’ identities as writers and as teachers-of-writing, Christy’s research explores the tensions inherent in teaching writing and disciplinary literacy, including professional development design at the secondary and post-secondary levels.

Affiliations

Campus Writing Program

Missouri Writing Project

Areas of Expertise

• English Language Arts teaching
• Disciplinary literacy instruction
• Writing Across the Curriculum administration