Her research and teaching interests include writing program administration, composition and writing center theory and practice, working with multilingual writers, and writing across the curriculum. She earned her MA in TESOL from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and her doctorate in English from Purdue University with a specialization in Rhetoric and Composition. Cristyn has taught ESL/EFL and teacher education courses in the U.S., Mexico, Ukraine, Guatemala, and Tajikistan. She has published in WPA: Writing Program Administration and is a co-founder and managing editor of Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. She is also a co-founder of WPA-GO (the Council of Writing Program Administrators Graduate Student Organization). TOP