Karen Gardiner

Karen H. Gardiner

Professor
Coordinator of Academic Integrity Initiatives, College of Arts and Sciences

Education

  • PhD, English, The University of Alabama, 1996

Research Areas

  • Composition & Rhetoric

Bio

Karen Hollingsworth Gardiner (PhD, The University of Alabama, 1996) serves as Coordinator for Academic Integrity Initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences; she is the former director of the First-year Writing Program.

She served as an Innovation Scholar Mentor in 2019 for the College of Continuing Studies. She was a UA Learning in Action Fellow in 2017, as well as an Innovation Scholar for CCS.  In May 2012, she received The University of Alabama Outstanding Professional Award.

Though she did her doctoral work on 20th-century American dramatist Susan Glaspell, Dr. Gardiner has continuing interests in rhetoric and composition studies, particularly the transition from high school to college writing, the alignment of high-school-to-college writing curriculum, and academic integrity in source-based writing.

Dr. Gardiner is a former Assistant Editor of the South Atlantic Review.

Selected Publications

Publications

  • multiple blog posts on academic integrity on The Teaching Hub.
  • Gardiner, Karen. “Reaching (for) Out There: Susan Glaspell’s Rhetoric of the Female Artist,” in Disclosing Intertextualities: The Short Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell, ed. Martha Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 183-200.

Selected Conference Presentations

  • “Improv(ing) Course Design: A Riff on Experiential Learning and Academic Integrity.” Presentation and Roundtable Discussion. International Center for Academic Integrity conference. New Orleans, LA, March 2019.
  • “Alabama in Cuba: Peer-to Peer Writing Collaboration.” Co-presentation with Brooke Champagne. UA Cuba Week conference. Tuscaloosa, AL, October 2016.
  • “Academic Integrity and Source-based Writing: Stepping from High School to College.” Keynote Address. UAB John J. Haggerty High School Articulation conference. Birmingham, AL, April 2016.
  • “Writing across a 90-mile Aisle: Composing Collaborations between Cuba and Alabama.” Panel Presentation. Writing Research Across Borders conference (WRAB), Paris, France, February 2014.
  • “Teacher Training (Re)Directions: Connecting New Teachers with Appropriate Information and Support.” Presentation and Roundtable Discussion. Council of Writing Program Administrators conference (CWPA), Albuquerque, NM, July 2012.
  • “Restoration and Collaboration: Fostering Peer-to-Peer Writing Conversations about Historic Restoration in Cuba and Alabama.” Presentation and Roundtable Discussion. Alabama-Cuba Initiative Conference, Havana, Cuba, February 2012.
  • “Choosing to Succeed: Themed Approaches to Second-semester Composition.” Panel Presentation. Council of Writing Program Administrators conference (CWPA), Baton Rouge, LA, July 2011.
  • “The Student Opinion Survey as Rhetorical Situation.” What’s Our Relation to the Mean and the Median? The Contested Place of Student Course Evaluations session, Presentation and Roundtable Discussion, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Atlanta, GA, April 2011.
  • “Tweet Reflections and Projections: Multimodality and Writing Program Directions.” Panelist. Rhetorical Reflections: Borderless Communication in a Multimodal World Symposium, Georgia Tech, April 2010.
  • “Prepared for College Writing…or Not: What Freshmen Tell Us about High School Writing.” Keynote Address. 35th Annual John J. Haggerty Articulation Conference, University of Alabama Birmingham; Birmingham, AL, March 2009.
  • “‘If It Ain’t Got That Swing’: A Jazz Lesson for Changing K-12/Higher-Ed Writing Alignment Realities,” Perspectives on Assessment Panel, Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New Orleans, LA, April 2008.
  • “Transposing the Writing Center to the Key of D: Problems and Approaches for Distance Tutoring,” (session chair and co-presenter), Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA) Conference, Nashville, TN, Feb 2007.
  • “Style Manual Alphabet Soup: Research Implications for Tutoring across the Disciplines,” Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA) Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, Feb. 2006
  • “There Is No Ladder in Lateral: Improving Communications between High Schools and Colleges,” College English Association (CEA) Conference, Richmond, VA, April 2004
  • “`Ow do you know e’s the king?’ or Parody as Pedagogy: Using Monty Python and the Holy Grail to teach Arthurian Legend,” (co-presentation with Tim Francisco), Third Annual Conference on Teaching Medieval Literature, Kennesaw SU, Kennesaw, GA, March 2003

Selected Workshops Conducted

  • “Art and Identity.” Lead Scholar. Alabama Humanities Foundation SUPER Emerging Scholars Institute for High School Writers, week-long residency workshop, U of Alabama, June 2012.
  • “Coming of Age and College-level Writing.” Lead Scholar. Alabama Humanities Foundation SUPER Emerging Scholars Institute for High School Writers, week-long residency workshop, U of Alabama, June 2010.
  • “Resistance and Writing.” Lead Scholar. Alabama Humanities Foundation SUPER Emerging Scholars Institute for High School Writers, week-long residency workshop, U of Alabama Birmingham, June 2009.
  • “eResearch, eWriting: Preparing Students for Tech-Savvy College-Level Work in the Humanities.” Coordinator and Lead Scholar. Alabama Humanities Foundation SUPER Teacher Institute week-long workshop for high school teachers, U of Alabama, June 2008
  • “Collaboration and Transparency: Creating and Disseminating Program Assessment Materials” (co-presentation with Jessica Kidd), Composition Assessment: A Teaching Symposium, Georgia State U, October 2007
  • “Composition & Technology: Strategies to Help Prepare Students for College Writing.” Lead Scholar. Alabama Humanities Foundation SUPER Teacher Institute one-day workshop for high school teachers, U of Alabama, June 2007