Vee Kennedy

Instructor of Writing & Rhetoric
University of Central Florida
Vee.Kennedy@ucf.edu

EDUCATION

Instructor, Writing & Rhetoric, University of Central Florida, 2024-present
Visiting Instructor, Writing & Rhetoric, University of Central Florida, 2022-2024
Visiting Professor, New Student Experience, Valencia College, 2021-2022

Forthcoming: Shane A. Wood, Nick Gardiakos, Matthew Bryan, Natalie Madrugra, Pamela Baker, Joel Schneier, Joel Bergholtz, Emily Proulx, Vee Kennedy, Ricky Finch, Mya Poe, Norbert Elliot, and Sherry Rankins-Robertson.“Sustaining Curricula through Collective Actions: A Case of Longitudinal Design.” Composition Forum, 2025.
Forthcoming: Kennedy, Vee. “A Pre-Pandemic Snapshot of a Culture of (in)Access: Accommodation Statements.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, 48.2, September 2025.
Kennedy, Vee. “Postcolonial Pokémon: The Social Responsibility of Indigenous Representation as told by Online Discourse and Game Reviews of Pokémon Legends: Arceus.” REPLAYING JAPAN, vol.7, Mar. 2025, pp.11-18.

Kennedy, Vee. “Disputatio: One Disabled Student's Dream Syllabus Statement.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy, 29(2), 2025.

Kennedy, V. (2025). Internet Graveyard of Critical Baking and the Critical Baking Kitchen. In Johnson and Salter’s Critical Making in the Age of AI. (pp. 187, 192, 215). Amherst College Press.

Kennedy, Vee. "Review: Theories and Strategies for Teaching Creative Writing Online." Routledge, 2021. Global Society of Online Literacy Educators. Online Literacies Open Resources Reviews, 2024

Forthcoming. Kennedy, Vee. “Teaching Rhetoric, AI and Japanese Media Studies.” Fact, Fiction and the In-Between: Developing Student Literacy through Japanese Studies in an Age of Dis/Mis/Information. Modern Language Association. January 2026. Accepted.
Kennedy, Vee. "Postcolonial Pokemon: Procedural Rhetorics of Indigenous Representation in Legends of Arceus." Replaying Japan. August 2024
Kennedy, Vee. "Ethics and AI: GradeGPT: Can GPT 3.5 Pass English Composition II, Rebooted." Computers and Writing. June 2024

Forthcoming: Kennedy, Vee. “Reproducing Colonial Maps in Pokemon.” Console-ing Passions Conference. June 2025. Accepted.
Kennedy, Vee. "GradeGPT: Can GPT3.5 Pass English Composition II?" Teaching & Learning with AI Conference. September 2023
Kennedy, Vee. "Grading ChatGPT: How Well the AI Scored on My First-Year Composition Prompts and How this Changes My Pedagogy." Sunshine State Teaching and Learning Conference. May 2023
Kennedy, Vee. “Disabled student, disabled teacher: masking and disclosing disability in academia.” Teaching of Writing Conference, Wayne State University. February 2020.
Kennedy, Vee. “Engaging Without Speaking: Nonverbal and Semiverbal classroom activities.” Mid-Michigan Corridors Rhetoric & Writing Conference. September 2019.
Kennedy, Vee. “Poor Monster, or Nonbinary Viola: How Shakespeare Subverts Heteronormative Desire through the Rejection of the Gender Binary.” Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. June 2019.

Kennedy, Vee. “How Large Language Models Learn.” Department of Writing and Rhetoric TeacherTalks. February, 2024.
Kennedy, Vee. “Coffee Hour with your Friendly Neighborhood Queer Autistic First Year Writing Instructor: So Where Do I Put My Pronouns on My Syllabus?” QueerTalk2018. Eastern Michigan University. November, 2018.

Composition I: Sociocultural Construct for Community-Situated Writing (Online, Mixed Mode, and Fully Face to Face)
Composition II: Sociocultural Construct for Research Writing (Online, Mixed Mode, and Fully Face to Face)

2023- Parliamentarian, Department of Writing and Rhetoric
2024-2025. TeacherTalks Coordinator
2023-2024. ENC 1101 Assessment Committee
2023-2024. BA ePortfolio Reviewer
2023-2024. BA Capstone Committee
2023-2024. Faculty Reader, Convergence/Rhetoric
2023-2024. BA Capstone Project Mock Interview Panelist
2023-2024. Knight’s Write Showcase Student Panelist Coach for ENC 1102 Panelists
2023-2024. Knight’s Write Showcase Student Panelist Coach for Convergence/Rhetoric
2023-2024. Knights Write Showcase Committee
2023-2024. Faculty Reader, Stylus
2023-2024. Composition Program Committee
2022-2023. Summer ENC 1102 ePortfolio Assessment Committee
2022-2023. Faculty Reader, Stylus
2022-2023. BA ePortfolio Reviewer
2022-2023. BA Capstone Project Mock Interview Panelist
2022-2023. Faculty Reader, Convergence/Rhetoric
2022-2023. Online Teaching of Writing Taskforce
2022-2023. Knight’s Write Showcase Student Panelist Coach
2022-2023. Judge, Knight’s Write Showcase Selection Committee
2022-2023. National Day on Writing Tabling Volunteer
2022-2023. Composition Program Learning Outcomes Committee Member

2025. Voting Rights & Civic Engagement Teacher Scholars Program, Member
2025. Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, Article Peer-Reviewer
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) Scholar
2024. Electronic Literature Organization Scientific Committee, Abstract Reviewer
2023. ACM SIGDOC Conference on Methods and Methodologies, Volunteer
2023. Global Society of Online Literacy Educators Conference, Moderator
2019-2020. Gilman Scholarship Program Alumni Ambassador, U.S. State Department