Peter Khost

Chair, Department of Writing and Rhetoric

Associate Professor, Department of Writing and Rhetoric

Co-Principal Investigator, Writing Research Lab

Faculty Affiliate, Department of English

Office: Humanities 2111

Education

Ph.D., The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (English)

MA, Rutgers University-Newark (English and Creative Writing)

BA, Fordham University (English and Music History)

Professional Interests

Literary affordance theory

Writing in the disciplines

Writing transfer theory

Cognition and writing

Writing and music

Autoethnography

Habits of mind

Assessment

Self-efficacy

Rhetoric

Other

Assistant Chair, Department of Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University, 2008-2012; 2018-2020
Co-Editor, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, 2018-2020
President, Stony Brook University Arts and Sciences Senate, 2019-2020
Recipient of Provost’s Inaugural Award for Excellence in Educational Effectiveness, Stony Brook University, 2022
Recipient of the Rutgers Medal and title of Rutgers 250 Fellow, honoring distinguished alumni on Rutgers University’s 250th anniversary, 2016
Inaugural Faculty Fellow, Division of Undergraduate Education, Stony Brook University, 2022-23
Creator and Administrator of the Writing And Transfer Tool (WATT)
Writing Center Director, Stony Brook University, 2001-2002
Assessment Co-Coordinator, Department of Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University, 2017-2022
Invited participant: 2013 Dartmouth Writing Research Seminar
Representative to the Conference on College Composition and Communication Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition, 2008-present