Faith Marie Kurtyka, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

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Contact

FaithKurtyka@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
English
CRHL - Creighton Hall/Administration Building - 135H

Faith Marie Kurtyka, PhD

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

Faith Kurtyka is an associate professor of English at Creighton. She uses qualitative and quantitative research methods to study undergraduate culture and its influence on students’ writing practices. Her past research includes the writing and literacy practices of a campus sorority, the political beliefs of conservative undergraduate women, and the Instagram of a women’s fitness group. She recently received a CURAS grant to study how students compose their personal statements for medical school. 

Curriculum Vitae

Department

English

Position

Associate Professor

Books

  • Kurtyka Faith M., Rhetorics and literacies of everyday life of first-year college students 2013
  • Kurtyka Faith, etal Rhetorics and literacies of everyday life of first-year college students 2012
  • , Love, loss, and what I wrote 2007

Publications

  • Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric
    Kurtyka Faith, It Helps Me Feel More Comfortable : Creating an Affective Public to Build Confidence on Instagram
    26:3, p. 37 - 57 2024
  • Across the Disciplines
    Kurtyka Faith, Trends, Vibes, and Energies: Building on Students Strengths in Visual Composing
    12:4, p. 1 - 17 2021
  • College English
    Kurtyka Faith, Standing at the Threshold: Metonymic Generalization and the Social Penalties of Being a Conservative Woman on Campus
    83:3, p. 235 - 257 2021
  • Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
    Kurtyka Faith, “Be a Liberation Whatever”: Social Justice Literacy in a Living-Learning Community
    24 2019
  • English journal
    Khost Peter H., etal Reframing Readiness: College Readiness and the International Baccalaureate Program
    106:5, p. 86 - 89 2017
  • Composition studies
    Kurtyka Faith M., Learning How to Feel
    45:1, p. 99 - 121 2017
  • Peitho
    Kurtyka Faith, We're Creating Ourselves Now: Crafting as Feminist Rhetoric in a Social Sorority
    18:2, p. 25 2016
  • Composition Forum
    Kurtyka Faith Marie, Settling in to Genre: The Social Action of Emotion in Shaping Genres
    31, p. 1 - 1 2015
  • Literacy in Composition Studies
    Kurtyka Faith Marie, 'Get Excited People!' Gendered Acts of Literacy in a Social Sorority
    3:2, p. 22 - 43 2015
  • Composition Forum
    Kurtyka Faith M., What does your money get you?: Active learning as an alternative to consumerism in the composition classroom.
    27:2013, p. 14 2013
  • Kurtyka Faith, Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language 2nd ed. by David Barton 2010
  • Teaching English in the two-year college
    Kurtyka Faith, 'The Expression of Wise Others': Using Students' Views of Academic Discourse to Talk about Social Justice
    38:1, p. 47 2010

Grants

  • The Writing Process of Aspiring Medical Students/Sponsor: CURAS Magis Investigatio Research Award/MIRA

  • Kingfisher Mini-Seminar on Helping Students Write Personal Statements/Sponsor: Kingfisher Institute

  • Writing, Revising, and Re-Humanizing the Medical School Personal Statement/Sponsor: CURAS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship

  • Developing a Custom Chatbot for Medical School Personal Statements/Sponsor: Creighton University Center for Faculty Excellence/CFE

  • Enhancing AI Feedback for Medical School Personal Statements/Sponsor: CURAS Magis Investigatio Research Award/MIRA