Katie O. Arosteguy

Lecturer, University Writing Program, UC Davis

Katie O. Arosteguy is a lecturer in the University Writing Program at UC Davis, where she teaches a variety of upper-division courses in writing in the disciplines—including Writing in Education. For 3 years she directed the Writing Ambassadors program and prepared some 100 undergraduates per year to intern as writing assistants in K–12 schools in the region. Before UC Davis, Katie taught composition in community colleges in the Sacramento area as well as junior high and high school English. She has published on teaching audience awareness on the Writers Who Care blogand presented her work on designing multimodal writing projects at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. A National Writing Project teacher-consultant, Katie works with high school and community college teachers to better understand writing instruction at all levels. She holds a PhD in English from Washington State University, an MA in English and secondary teaching credential in English from California State University, Sacramento, and a BA in English from the University of California, Davis.