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Cassandra Phillips

Cassandra Phillips

  • Affiliated Teaching Professor, English

Education

  • Ph.D. Composition and Rhetoric, University of Louisville
  • M.A. Writing, DePaul University
  • B.A. English, Kenyon College

Research Interests

Literacy studies, reading & writing pedagogy, assessment, writing program administration & development, curricular design, online pedagogy, access education, developmental and access education

Related Activities

First-Year Bridge Literacy Program Coordinator

TYCA Open-Access Literacy Program Coordination Network Coordinator

Selected Publications

Giordano, Joanne, Holly Hassel, and Cassandra Phillips. “What We Hold On To: Doing Sustainable Work in the Academy.” Peitho. 28. 4 (Summer 2026): 162–175.
Giordano, Joanne, Holly Hassel, Erin Lehman, Cassandra Phillips, Emily Suh and Lizbett Tinoco. "Symposium: (In)Equitable Spaces: Material and Cultural Barriers to Four-Year/Two-Year Collaboration." College English 88.3 (Mar. 2026): 334–345.
Giordano, Joanne, Holly Hassel, Jennifer Heinert, and Cassandra Phillips. Reaching All Writers: A Pedagogical Guide for Evolving Writing Classrooms. Utah State University Press. February 2024.
Giordano, Joanne, and Cassandra Phillips. “Adapting Writing Studio Pedagogy for Flexible and Equitable Acceleration.”  Journal of Basic Writing. 42.3 (Fall 2024): 33-56.
Giordano, Joanne, and Cassandra Phillips. “Inclusive, Equitable, and Responsive Strategies for Redesigning Open-Access Online Literacy Courses.” In PARS in Charge: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Leaders edited by Jessie Borgman and Casey McArdle. Fort Collins, Colorado : The WAC Clearinghouse; University of Colorado Press, 2023.
Hassel, Holly, and Cassandra Phillips. “Decoding Writing Studies: First Generation Students, Threshold Concepts, and Pedagogies of Access.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College 50.1 (December 2022): 24-46.
Hassel, Holly, and Cassandra Phillips. Materiality and Writing Studies: Aligning Labor, Scholarship, and Teaching.  Southern Illinois University Press. March 2022. *Received the CWPA Best Book Award for 2022-2024.
Giordano, Joanne, and Cassandra Phillips. “Designing an Online Writing Program for Access, Inclusivity, and Disciplinarity.” Transformations: Change Work Across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices. Eds. Kirsti Cole and Holly Hassel. University Press of Colorado, 2021. 240-258.
Phillips, Cassandra, and Joanne Giordano. “Messy Processes into and out of Failure: Professional Identities and Open-Access Writers.” Failure Pedagogies: Learning and Unlearning What it Means to Fail. Eds. Allison D. Carr and Laura R. Micciche. Peter Lang, 2020. 153-162.
Kalish, Katie, Holly Hassel, Cassandra Phillips, Jennifer Heinert, and Joanne Giordano. “Inequitable Austerity: Pedagogies of Resilience and Resistance in Composition.” “Resilience in an Age of Austerity.”  Pedagogy 19.2 (April 2019): 261-281.
Phillips, Cassandra, Holly Hassel, Jennifer Heinert, Katie Kalish, and Joanne Baird Giordano, “Thinking Like a Writer: Threshold Concepts and First-Year Writers in Open-Admissions Classrooms.” (Re)Considering What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies, eds. Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle. Utah State UP, 2019.
Heinert, Jennifer, and Cassandra Phillips. “Transforming the Value of Gendered Service through Institutional Culture Change.” Peitho 21.2 (Spring 2019): 255-278.