Greg Gillespie is a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric, Writing & Linguistics and teaches first-year composition. In the classroom, he uses real-world pedagogy from his 15 years of experience in the federal government and corporate sector to connect students with writing practices that help them apply critical thinking skills. Greg’s general research interests include multimodal composition pedagogy, second language writing, and technical and professional communication. Specifically, he connects industry experience to pedagogy and how instructors navigate support networks. Building upon a study he conducted to examine the roles that writing centers play in the tutoring of multimodal assignments, Greg continues to investigate how composition instructors may collaborate with university and community resources to develop technical competencies that result in professionally produced texts. Drawing on his experience in learning languages, living and working abroad, he incorporates a multicultural and diverse perspective in the classroom and his scholarly work.

Greg currently serves as the Vice Chair for Graduate Students of English and Co-Chair for the NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference at UTK. He is the incoming Graduate Co-Editor of The Peer Review and a Bedford New Scholar.