Institute Faculty
Sherry Rankins-Robertson
Chair and Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, University of Central Florida
Sherry Rankins-Robertson is chair and professor of writing and rhetoric at the University of Central Florida. Her passion for student success has fueled her energy to build successful, sustainable higher education programs to improve students’ experiences both on campus and in the community. For the past twenty-five years, Dr. Robertson has taught first-year writing, nonfiction writing, and graduate-level theory courses. For more than a decade, she has taught writing in prisons. Dr. Robertson served as an officer for the Council of Writing Program Administrators and a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication along with committees and task forces for NCTE, CCCC, and CWPA. She spent eight years as a faculty member and administrator at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock where she was Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs in Student Success, Student Retention, and Online Education. Previously, Dr. Robertson taught at Arizona State University where she worked with colleagues to develop programs in family history writing, business writing, and prison education. Collaboratively, she designed, implemented, and administered the award-winning Writers’ Studio, ASU’s fully online first-year composition program. Dr. Robertson has co-edited two book collections and co-authored a first-year composition textbook along with writing numerous articles and book chapters. She is a graduate of the Harvard’s “Women Leaders: Advancing Together” program, and she is 200-hour registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance.
Areas of Expertise
- AI curricular and assessment design
- Community-engaged education
- Equitable-based education and assessment
- Faculty burnout and administrative well being
- Grant development and acquisition
- Online teaching, learning, and instructional technologies
- Rhetoric and composition theory, pedagogy, and administration