Kate Fedewa

Kate Fedewa is an academic specialist focused on curriculum development and teaching in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures. She teaches in the Professional and Public Writing program, as well as in Experience Architecture, First Year Writing, Gifted and Talented Education, and Integrated Arts and Humanities. She has served in leadership roles as WRAC’s Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies (2023-2025) and as the director of WRAC’s Young Authors’ Conference (2013-2015).

Fedewa’s teaching, curriculum development, and research focus on community-centered learning experiences. She is currently researching changing notions of “writers” and “writing” with the advent of AI, as well as the rhetoric of history and its use toward identity formation in tabletop gaming.

Research Areas

Literacy and Identity, Game Studies, History of Rhetoric, Medievalisms, Learning Experience Design

Education

Ph.D., English (Medieval Literature), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013.

BA, Michigan State University, 2007