Kyung-Hee Bae is the Director of the Center for Academic & Professional Communication (CAPC) and a Senior Lecturer in the Program for Writing and Communication at Rice University. With over 20 years of experience in Communication in the Disciplines (CID), she has led or collaborated on more than 100 CID projects across two institutions, including Rice and the University of Houston. Her work focuses on integrating communication instruction into discipline-specific curricula, drawing on genre theory, visual and data communication, and peer-based learning models. She is especially interested in how genre awareness and communication support can improve student engagement and academic development across fields. Her recent publications include a chapter titled “Building Community through Discipline-Based Writing Groups” in Writing Together: Building Social Writing Opportunities for Graduate Students (2024), which explores peer-driven support for graduate students writing within their own disciplines, and “Addressing NNES Graduate Students’ Oral Communication Needs Through a Discipline-Based Approach” in Pedagogical Innovations in Oral Academic Communication (2020), which examines how structured support for academic presentations can help multilingual graduate students develop confidence and a sense of disciplinary and researcher identity.

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