Education
Ph.D. in English and Education, University of Michigan, 2021
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership, Calvin University, 2012
B.A. in English and Education, Calvin University, 2006
Academic Employment
Assistant Professor of English, Hope College, 2022-Present
Recent Courses Taught at Hope College
IDS 492: Senior Seminar
English 380: Teaching English in Secondary Schools
English 113: Language and Culture
English 288: Teaching Writing to Adolescents
English 292: Teaching Literature to Adolescents
English 214: Workplace Writing
English 213: Writing Theory and Practice
Other Teaching Experience
Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Education Department, Calvin University, 2024-
High school English teacher, Grand Rapids Christian High School, 2006-2016.
Graduate Student Instructor, First-year Writing, University of Michigan, 2016- 2017.
Selected Publications
VanEyk, Kristin. (2027). Language, Literature, and Justice in the Secondary English Classroom. Peter Lang.
Lefebvre, Beth & Kristin VanEyk, Eds. (2026). Purpose & Joy: Sustaining a Meaningful Career in Christian Higher Education. Abilene Christian University Press.
Curzan, Anne, Robin Queen, Kristin VanEyk, and Rachel E. Weissler. (2023). Language Standardization & Linguistic Subordination. Dædalus, 152(3), 18-35.
Selected Recent Conference Presentations
“Change Really Does Sing: Talking about Race and Navigating Complexities in a Community-Wide Reading Program with Homegoing, New Kid, and Door of No Return. NCTE Annual Convention. Boston, MA. November 2024.
“Exploring the Hero’s Journey in a Community-Wide Reading Program: Using Greek Mythology and Marvel Superheroes to Explore Different Definitions of Heroes.” NCTE Annual Convention. Columbus, OH. November 2023.
“Communities of Care and Slow Reading in Desperate Times.” CCC Annual convention. Chicago, IL. March 2023.
“Pulling Roots: Emergent Hospitality from the Soil of Decoloniality.” MLA International Symposium. Glasgow, Scotland. June 2022.
“Shifting Code-Meshing Pedagogies Toward Practices of Rhetorical Agency.” CCCC Annual Convention. Chicago, IL. March 2022.
“Your Voice is Kind of Muffled: Multilingual Student Talk about the Commons of Classroom Discourse.” CCCC Annual Convention. Spokane, WA. April 2021.
“Listening to Lost Voices: Humanizing Ethnographic Methods.” MLA International Symposium. Lisbon, Portugal. July 2019.
