Richard E. Stewart is a Faculty Associate in the ASU Online Writers’ Studio within the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. He teaches first-year composition remotely from upstate New York, with a focus on process-based writing instruction, revision, rhetorical awareness, and inclusive support for students across varied educational backgrounds.
Stewart’s teaching brings together experience in journalism, creative writing, developmental literacy, and college composition. After earning a BA in Journalism from the University of South Carolina and an MA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Binghamton University, he worked as a journalist in New York City and later taught language arts, creative writing, and composition across multiple institutions, including SUNY-Oneonta, Hartwick College, and colleges in the Maricopa system.
His early work in phonics instruction at The Gow School helped shape a lasting commitment to neurodivergent learners, accessibility, and student-centered teaching. That background continues to inform his online courses, where he emphasizes clarity, encouragement, structure, and the belief that strong writing grows through guided practice rather than performance alone.
In the Writers’ Studio, Stewart is especially interested in how writing teachers can respond to AI without surrendering the cognitive work at the heart of composing. His current pedagogical interests include AI literacy, rubric-based feedback, asynchronous course support, and the use of AI as a bounded coaching tool that helps students strengthen research, drafting, and revision while preserving real-time thinking and human judgment.