Kristin’s research is interdisciplinary, bringing together the study of language ideologies with decolonial theory in Writing Studies and English Education. Kristin’s ethnographic research analyzes how standard language ideology impacts students’ and preservice teachers’ beliefs about language use in academic spaces. An advocate for critical language awareness, Kristin uses her teaching and research to connect linguistics, writing instruction, and rhetorical study. Kristin’s 2027 book, Bridging the Gap, serves preservice and inservice secondary English educators as they connect theory-based commitments to justice with classroom practice.
Kristin also studies how religious faith impacts students’ writing and how students negotiate faith, politics, and academic work. Through a 2026 NetVUE Grant to Individuals for Vocational Exploration, Kristin is working with cohorts of recent English education graduates to study vocational flourishing and needs.
Kristin’s recent faculty development work includes the co-edited collection Purpose & Joy (2026) and numerous blog posts, articles, and podcast features about faculty resilience in Christian Higher Education.
Selected recent and forthcoming publications include:
- Flourishing in the First Year. Abilene Christian University Press.(Under contract).
- VanEyk, Kristin. (2027). Bridging the Gap: Language, Literacy, 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.
- Sura, Tom, and Kristin VanEyk. (2025). “Writing Methods: Rethinking Research Conventions in FYW.” Pedagogy, 25(2): 173–183.
- VanEyk, Kristin and Anne Curzan. (2025). “The Politics of Prescriptivism: Two Style Manuals, One Century.” American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, 100(1): 22–41.
- VanEyk, Kristin. (2024). “Teaching Critical Theories for Social Justice Outcomes.” College English, 87(1), 108-112.
- Curzan, Anne; Robin Queen, Kristin VanEyk, and Rachel E. Weissler. (2023). Language Standardization & Linguistic Subordination. Dædalus, 152(3), 18-35.
- VanEyk, Kristin. (2020). “What Women Write: On Decanting Macaroni and Saying Goodbye to Ghost Trains.” Writing on the Edge, 31(½): 52-56.
