Christina Saidy

(Re)Building Connections and Collaborations Across High School and College Writing Contexts

Christina Saidy is a former middle school and high school language arts teacher and now an associate professor and director of the English Education program at Arizona State University. Christina’s work focuses on writing transitions for students entering college and teachers in professional development groups. In her work, Christina focuses on opening up access to college writing for traditionally underrepresented students and first-generation college students. Christina’s work straddles both rhetoric/composition and English Education and she regularly publishes in venues for audiences in both disciplines. Christina has provided extensive professional development on the teaching of writing for secondary teachers and for college writing teachers.