Katherine Daily O’Meara

Katherine Daily O'Meara serves as Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Saint Norbert College, where she has been a faculty member since 2020. Her expertise spans rhetoric and composition, writing studies, writing program administration, and second language writing instruction.

Her academic credentials include:

• B.A. in English from Carroll College (now Carroll University)
• M.A. in English (Linguistics and TESOL) from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Ph.D. in English (Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies) from Arizona State University

Dr. O'Meara's research centers on writing across the curriculum implementation, writing program leadership, and antiracist, accessible assessment frameworks. She pioneers engagement-based grading contracts that prioritize student agency through authentic writing tasks for diverse audiences. Her work critically examines how writing program administrators navigate liminal spaces and conceptualize academic landscapes as cartographers.

Analysis of her publications (2016-2023) reveals three dominant trajectories: 1) Metaphorical frameworks for writing program administration (liminality, cartography); 2) Labor-based grading contracts integrating response pedagogy; 3) Antiracist applications in multilingual writing instruction. These threads collectively advance social justice through equitable writing practices.

No scientific awards were documented in the source material.

As Writing Across the Curriculum Director, O'Meara leads institutional writing initiatives while teaching courses including ENGL 313 Writing for the World and ENGL 290 Introduction to Writing Studies. Her administrative leadership focuses on sustainable program development across academic disciplines, though specific grant funding or student advising details remain unreported.