Teaching English in the Two-Year College

Congratulations to the Incoming Editors of Teaching English in the Two-Year College!

NCTE and the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA) are pleased to announce the selection of Jessica Nastal and Cheryl Hogue Smith as the incoming editors of TETYC. Current editor Darin Jensen has gathered content for his remaining issues (volume 53), and the incoming editors have begun reading submissions as they work toward publishing their first issue in fall 2026 (volume 54, issue 1). Learn about writing for TETYC.

Jessica Nastal (she/they), PhD, comes to TETYC with many years in scholarly editorial work, notably as associate editor of the Journal of Writing Assessment, developmental editor of The Journal of Writing Analytics, and an editorial board member for journals including Assessing Writing, Composition Studies, and TETYC. Her research focuses on writing pedagogy and response to student writing. With coeditors Mya Poe and Christie Toth, Jessica won the CWPA Best Book Award for Writing Placement in Two-Year Colleges: The Pursuit of Equity in Postsecondary Education. Jessica is a faculty member at the College of DuPage, where she teaches composition and writing studies classes and is a member of the Promoting Civic Engagement Community of Practice. 

Cheryl Hogue Smith, PhD, comes to Teaching English in the Two-Year College with experience as a guest coeditor for the special issue on teaching college reading for (TETYC 50.2) and as a coeditor of two forthcoming volumes about teaching college reading: College Teachers Teaching Reading: Practical Strategies for Postsecondary Readers and Open(ing) Access: Equity and Reading. She is a past chair of the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA), a recipient of the TYCA Nell Ann Picket Service Award, and a recipient of the Mark Reynolds TETYC Best Article Award for “Fractured Reading: Experiencing Students’ Thinking Habits” (TETYC 47.1). Her work about teaching college reading and writing and teaching Shakespeare appears in several journals and edited collections. Cheryl is a professor of English and the Faculty Certification Coordinator for the Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum Program at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York.