Kim O'Neil

Kim O'Neil is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), and serves as Assistant Director/Groupwork Coordinator at the UIC Writing Center. Her academic roles include teaching first-year research writing, tutor training courses, and a pre-matriculation program for graduate students in the School of Public Health. She holds affiliations with both the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Writing Center.

Her research focuses on writing center praxis, disability studies, and addressing health and educational disparities through pedagogical innovation. Her creative work includes short stories published in Electric Literature, Juked, and Packingtown Review, culminating in the short story collection Fever Dogs (Northwestern University Press, 2017).

No formal grants or awards are explicitly listed, though her work bridges academic writing instruction and social justice themes. She advises students through her courses and Writing Center initiatives but no specific advisee names are provided. She collaborates with the UIC Writing Center team to support interdisciplinary student success.