Kyung-Hee Bae has more than 25 years of experience in writing and communication education, with extensive work in Communication in the Disciplines (CID), writing and communication centers, and graduate and professional communication.

Much of her work focuses on integrating written, oral, visual, and multimodal communication into discipline-specific curricula. Drawing on genre theory, rhetorical and audience awareness, visual and data communication, and peer-based learning, she is particularly interested in how communication instruction can help students understand disciplinary expectations, develop rhetorical flexibility, and grow into their identities as scholars and professionals.

These interests are also reflected in her scholarship, including work on discipline-based graduate writing and multilingual oral communication. “Building Community through Discipline-Based Writing Groups,” published in Writing Together: Building Social Writing Opportunities for Graduate Students (2024), examines how discipline-based writing groups can provide graduate students with sustained peer support and a stronger sense of community. Her work on oral communication takes up a related set of questions. “Addressing NNES Graduate Students’ Oral Communication Needs Through a Discipline-Based Approach,” published in Pedagogical Innovations in Oral Academic Communication (2020), explores how discipline-based support for academic presentations can help multilingual graduate students develop confidence as communicators and a stronger sense of disciplinary and researcher identity.

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