Research Interests

• Literate development and becoming throughout the lifespan
• Longitudinal studies of literacy, learning, and becoming
  
• Disciplinary writing, learning, and socialization
• Inscriptional tools and practices
  
• First Year Writing
  
• Writing for multiple contexts
• Cultural-historical activity theory
• Sociohistoric perspectives of literacy and learning
• Genre as rhetorical action
• Basic writing
• Qualitative research methods
• Writing pedagogy

Creative Activities

• Roozen, Kevin. “Supporting Richly Literate Lives: Inviting Literate Development throughout Lifespans and Lifeworlds.” Invited presentation at the University of Massachusetts—Boston. 13    April 2019.

• Roozen, Kevin. “Tracing the Emergent Becoming of Writers, Practices, and Social Worlds:         Conceptualizing, Studying, and Supporting Futures-In-the-Making.” Invited presentation at the        Thomas R. Watson Conference. 22 October 2018.

• Roozen, Kevin. “Tracing Mediated Action through the World: Understanding the Enduring           Consequences of Acting with Inscriptions.” Keynote presentation at the Gesa E. Kirsch Center for      Writing Studies Graduate Symposium. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 27 April 2018.

• Roozen, Kevin. “Relocating Literate Development: Mapping the Laminated Trajectory of an Engineer-in-the-Making.”Invited presentation for the 2016 Dartmouth Conference. Dartmouth University. 12 August 2016.

• Roozen, Kevin. “Coming to See Patients: Relocating the Development of Professional Vision across Time, Space, and Textual Engagements.” Invited presentation at the University of Maine, Orono. 15 February 2016.

Publications

Books

• Roozen, Kevin and Joe Erickson. Expanding Literate Landscapes: Persons, Practices, and Sociohistoric Perspectives of Disciplinary Development. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital P/Utah State UP, 2017. Web.

• Matthew Bryan, Nichole Stack, Nathan Holic, Lissa Mansfield, Adele Richardson, Jacob Stewart, and Kevin Roozen, eds. UCF Writes: A Handbook for Writing at the University of Central Florida, Fountainhead Press, 2016.

Articles/Essays

• Kovanen, Bruce, Nikki Turnipseed, Meagan Merkle, and Kevin Roozen. “Tracing Literate Activity across the Curriculum: Toward Embodied, Multimodal Perspectives of Disciplinary Knowing, Writing, and Becoming.” Across the Disciplines, Special issue on STEM and WAC/WID: Co-Navigating Our Shifting Currents, vol. 19, 2022, pp. 62-78.

• Roozen, Kevin.“Acting with Inscriptions: Expanding Perspectives of Writing, Learning, and Becoming” Journal for the Association of Expanded Perspectives on Learning, vol. 26, 2021, pp. 23-48.

• Gregg, Anya, and Kevin Roozen. “Everyday Writing Researchers: A Collaborative Co-Interview Dialogue.” Grassroots Writing Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021, pp. 151-165.

• Roozen, Kevin. “Trayectorias para Llegar a Ser: La Interacción con Inscripciones en Diferentes Ambitos del Mundo de la Vida.” [Translated title: Trajectories of Becoming: Acting with Inscriptions in Multiple Scopes of the Lifeworld.] Enunciación, Special Issue on Writing and Identity, vol. 26, 2021, pp. 17-38.

• Kevin Roozen. “Unraveling 'Writing': Interweaving Maverick Literacies throughout a Literate Life.” Grassroots Writing Research Journal, vol. 11, no. 2, 2021, pp. 95-115.

• Roozen, Kevin.“Coming to Act with Tables: Tracing the Laminated Trajectories of an Engineer-in-the-Making.” Learning, Culture, and Social Interaction. Special Issue. Writing Across: Tracing Transliteracies as Becoming over Time, Space, and Settings, vol. 24, 2020. pp 1-12.

• Roozen, Kevin."Journalism, Poetry, Stand-Up Comedy, and Academic Writing: Mapping the Interplay of Curricular and Extracurricular Literate Activities": Re-visiting a Theoretical Lens Five Years Later. Composition Forum30 (2014):http://compositionforum.com/issue/30/roozen-retrospective.php.

• Roozen, Kevin, and Joe Erickson. "Doing Two-Dimensional Design, Arranging American Literature, Crafting Creative Writing: Re-situating the Development of Discursive Practice Across Multiple Engagements." Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture 17 (2014): http://www.enculturation.net/multiple-engagements.

• Roozen, Kevin. "Comedy Stages, Poets Projects, Sports Columns, and Kinesiology 341: Illuminating the Importance of Basic Writers’ Self-sponsored Literacies." Journal of Basic Writing 31.1 (2012): 53-86.
• Wardle, Elizabeth, and Kevin Roozen. Addressing the Complexity of Writing Development: Toward an Ecological Model of Assessment.” Assessing Writing 17 (2012): 106-119.
• Roozen, Kevin, and Karen Lunsford. “One Story of Many to be Told”: Following Empirical Studies of College and Adult Writing through 100 Years of NCTE Journals.” Research in the Teaching of English 46.2 (2011): 193-209.
• Roozen, Kevin. “Tracing Trajectories of Practice: Repurposing in one Student’s Developing Disciplinary Writing Processes.” Written Communication 27.3 (2010): 318-354.  
• Roozen, Kevin. “‘Fan fic-ing’ English Studies: A Case Study Exploring the Interplay of Vernacular Literacies and Disciplinary Engagement.” Research in the Teaching of English 44.2 (2009): 136-169.
• Roozen, Kevin. “From Journals to Journalism: Tracing Trajectories of Literate Development.” College Composition and Communication 60.3 (2009): 541-572.
• Roozen, Kevin. “Journalism, Poetry, Stand-Up Comedy, and Academic Literacy: Mapping the Interplay of Curricular and Extracurricular Literate Activities.” Journal of Basic Writing 27.1 (2008): 5-34.
• Roozen, Kevin. “Math, the ‘Poetry Slam,’ and Mathemagicians: Tracing Trajectories of Practice and Person.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 11.3 (May 2007). 29 May 2007 <http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.3/topoi/prior-et-al/roozen/index.html>.
• Prior, Paul, Janine Solberg, Kevin Roozen, Patrick Berry, Hannah Bellowar, Bill Chewning, Karen Lunsford, Liz Rohan, Mary Sheridan-Rabideau, Jody Shipka, Derek Van Ittersum, and Joyce Walker. “Re-situating and Re-mediating the Canons: A Cultural-Historical Remapping of Rhetorical Activity: A Collaborative Webtext.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 11.3 (May 2007). 29 May 2007.
• Paul Prior, Julie Hengst, Kevin Roozen, and Jody Shipka. “‘I’ll be the sun”: From Reported Speech to Semiotic Remediation Practices.” Text and Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse & Communication Studies 26.6 (2006): 733-766.

Book Sections/Chapters

• Richard Beach, Kevin Roozen, and Anna Smith. “Sociocultural Perspectives in Writing Research.” Handbook on Writing Research, 3rd ed. Eds. Charles A. MacArthur, Steve Graham, and Jill Fitzgerald, pp. 45-59. Guilford Press. 2025.

• Anna Smith, Sonia Kline, Grace Kang, Kevin Roozen, and Richard Beach. “Sociocultural Approaches to Centering the Developing Writer in Writing Instruction.” Handbook on Writing Research, 3rd ed. Eds. Charles A. MacArthur, Steve Graham, and Jill Fitzgerald, pp. 368-388. Guilford Press. 2025.

• Roozen, Kevin. “Drawing Worlds Together: Tracing Encounters with Art across the Lifespan.” In Multimodal Composition and Writing Transfer, edited by Matt Davis, Kara Poe Alexander, Ryan Shepherd, and Lillian Mina. WAC Clearinghouse, 2024, pp. 145-169. *This edited collection was nominated for the 2023-2024 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award and received an “Honorable Mention” designation.

• Kevin Roozen and Steve Lamos. “Intra-Active Notebooking as Becoming.” In Beyond Productivity: Embodied, Situated, and (Un)Balanced Faculty Writing Processes, edited by Kim Hensley Owens and Derek van Ittersum. Utah State University Press, 2023, pp. 209-226.

• Roozen, Kevin. “Relocating Literate Development across Lifespans and throughout Lifeworlds: Mapping the Sociohistoric Pathways of an Engineer-in-the-Making.” The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research, edited by Christiane Donahue, Kelly Blewett, and Cynthai Monroe. Peter Lang, 2021, pp. 367-382.

• Roozen, Kevin. “Addressing the Futurity of Literate Action: Tracing the Enduring Consequences of Acting with Inscriptions throughout the Lifeworld.” Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence, Eds. Ryan Dippre and Talinn Phillips. WAC Clearinghouse, 2020. pp 225-246.
• Roozen, Kevin. “Mapping Translingual Literacies: Encouraging and Enacting Transnational Perspectives of Literate Life.” Translingual Affordances: Globalized Approaches to the Teaching of Writing, Eds. Alanna Frost, Suzanne Blum Malley, and Julie Kiernan. WAC Clearinghouse, 2020, pp. 133-159.
• Roozen, Kevin, Matthew Bryan, & Nichole Stack. “Finding a Way into WAW: Extending Invitations across Disciplinary Lines.” Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writing. Ed. Barbara Bird, Doug Downs, I. Moriah McCracken, and Jan Rieman. Utah State University Press, 2019, pp. 23-36.
• Roozen, Kevin.“Writing Is a Social and Rhetorical Activity.” Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies, Classroom Edition, edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle, Utah State University Press, 2016, pp. 17-18.
• Roozen, Kevin. “Texts get their Meaning from Other Texts.” Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies, Classroom Edition, edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle, Utah State University Press, 2016, pp. 44-47.
• Roozen, Kevin. “Writing Is Linked to Identity.” Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies, Classroom Edition, edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle, Utah State University Press, 2016, pp. 50-51.
• Roozen, Kevin. “Reflective Interviewing: Methodological Moves for Tracing Tacit Knowledge and Challenging Tacit Chronotopic Representations.” A Rhetoric of Reflection, edited by Kathleen Blake Yancey, Utah State University Press, 2016, pp. 250-267.
• Roozen, Kevin, Rebecca Woodard, Sonia Kline, and Paul Prior. "The Transformative Potential of of Laminating Trajectories: Three Teachers' Developing Pedagogical Practices." Working with Academic Literacies: Case Studies Towards Transformative Practice. Ed. Theresa Lillis, Kathy Harrington, Mary Lea, and Sally Mitchell. Fort Collins, CO: The WAC Clearinghouse. 2015. 205-215.

• Roozen, Kevin. “Texts Get Their Meaning From Other Texts.” Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle (Eds.). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2015. 44-47. *Collection winner of the 2017 CWPA Distinguished Research Award.
  

• Roozen, Kevin. “Writing Is a Social and Rhetorical Activity.” Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle (Eds.). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2015. 17-18. *Collection winner of the 2017 CWPA Distinguished Research Award.

• Roozen, Kevin. “Writing Is Linked to Issues of Identity.” Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle (Eds.). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2015. 50-51. *Collection winner of the 2017 CWPA Distinguished Research Award

• Roozen, Kevin. “Polyliterate Orientations: Mapping Meshings of Textual Practice.” Code Meshing as World English: Policy, Pedagogy, and Performance. Vershawn Young and Aja Martinez (Eds.). Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2011. 203-230.
• Roozen, Kevin, and Angelica Herrera. “‘Indigenous Interests’: Reconciling Literate Identities across Extracurricular and Curricular Contexts.” Inventing Identities in Second Language Writing. Michelle Cox, Jay Jordan, Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, and Gwen Gray Schwartz (Eds.). Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2010. 139-162.
• Roozen, Kevin. “The ‘Poetry Slam,’ Mathemagicians, and Middle-School Math: Tracing Trajectories of Actors and Artifacts.” Exploring Semiotic Remediation as Discourse Practice. Paul Prior and Julie Hengst (Eds.). New York: Palgrave, 2010. 24-51.

Book Reviews

• Roozen, Kevin. Review of Teaching the Neglected “R”: Rethinking Writing Instruction in Secondary Classrooms. Thomas Newkirk and Richard Kent (Eds.). Issues in Writing 18.2 (2010): 200-203.

Miscellaneous Publications

• Roozen, Kevin, and Neecee Matthews-Bradshaw. Education for Today, Preparation for Tomorrow: Emerging Scholars’ Perspectives of Learning in the Twenty-First Century. Volume 2. Alabama Humanities Foundation and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, 2012.
  
• Roozen, Kevin, and Neecee Matthews-Bradshaw. Changing Direction: Emerging Scholars’ Perspectives on Learning. Alabama Humanities Foundation and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, 2011.

Awards

• Research Incentive Award. University of Central Florida. 2022.
  

• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award. University of Central Florida, 2021.

• Sabbatical Research Leave Award. University of Central Florida, 2020.

• Affordances, Constraints, and Roadblocks to Writing Transfer: A Longitudinal Study. Submitted to: Writing Program Administration. Submitted by: R. Mark Hall, University of Central Florida; Kevin Roozen, Auburn University; Angela Rounsaville, University of Central Florida; Elizabeth Wardle, University of Central Florida. $1,500.00.

• Research Grants. Summer 2012, 2009. Spring 2011. Department of English. Auburn University. $18,000.

• College of Liberal Arts Promotion of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (PETL) award for Community and Civic Engagement. Spring 2012.

• Breeden Grant. Summer 2011. Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. Auburn University. $2000.00.

• College of Liberal Arts Early Career Teaching Award, 2008-2009. College of Liberal Arts. Auburn University.

• Computers and Composition Outstanding Digital Production and Scholarship Award. 2007. “Re-situating and Re-mediating the Canons: A Cultural-Historical Remapping of Rhetorical Activity: A Collaborative Webtext.”

• Outstanding Teaching Award for Department of English. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2003-2004.

Courses

• Fall 2025
• Spring 2026