Christine Hult

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Christine Hult’s distinguished career at Utah State includes her selection as the Outstanding Faculty Member in 2000 and recipient of the Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology in 2002. She has secured nearly $430,000 in research grants for her work at Utah State, plus she is a co-investigator on a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation to study and enhance the professional success of women in academic environments. Hult is best known for her work in integrating computers and technology with English writing and program evaluation. Her work includes coauthoring The New Century Handbook used across the country by students at Harvard, Princeton, UC-Berkeley, Cornell and Utah State. It is the bestselling first-edition book in the 130-year history of Allyn-Bacon publishers. Also among her accolades, Hult has received the Ellen Nold Best Article Award in 1996 from the journal Computers and Composition and for seven years she was editor of WPA: Writing Program Administration a journal read across the country by directors of writing programs. Her recent articles have focused on the emerging field of best practices in online instruction: preparing college teachers for the web-based classroom, online portfolio assessment, teaching poetry through hypertext, building online writing communities and using communication technology across the curriculum.