Kristi McDuffie is the Director of Rhetoric at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Undergraduate Rhetoric Program serves over 3,500 students per year in earning the Composition I graduate requirement. In this role as writing program administrator, she leads a team of Rhetoric program staff and over seventy writing teachers a semester. She directs curriculum, oversees mentoring and professional development, leads staffing and scheduling, heads programmatic hiring, and liaises with campus partners and student support services. She is also the Editor and one of the lead authors for the programmatic textbook, I Write: A Writing Guide for the Undergraduate Rhetoric Program at the University of Illinois.

She also maintains an active research agenda that investigates the intersections of digital writing, rhetorical theory, and social justice. Her recent projects and publications investigate hashtag feminism, citizenship rhetorics, and Internet research methods. She is an active member of the writing studies community and serves as a section editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy and regularly serves on Council of Writing Program Administrator committees. She is also an member of the Illinois Articulation Initiative communication panel.