Robert P. Yagelski is Associate Professor of English Education in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice at the State University of New York at Albany. He teaches courses in composition theory and pedagogy, critical pedagogy, and qualitative research methods and helps prepare secondary school teachers. He earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the Ohio State University.

Professor Yagelski is co-director of the Capital District Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Teacher Education Accreditation Council (TEAC) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on English Education. Previously, he directed the Writing Center at SUNY-Albany, co-directed the English Education program at Purdue University, and chaired the English Department at Vermont Academy, an independent high school.

Professor Yagelski's research has focused on understanding literacy as a social activity and writing as a technology. He has studied revision in student writing and the uses of technology in writing instruction, and he has examined the role of literacy in students' lives. Recently, he has explored connections between writing, pedagogy, and issues of social justice and sustainability.

Yagelski is the author of Literacy Matters: Writing and Reading the Social Self (Teachers College Press, 2000) and of numerous articles and essays about teaching writing that have appeared in College Composition and Communication, Research in the Teaching of English, English Education, Journal of Teaching Writing, and Radical Teacher, among others. He is also author of The Thomson Reader (Wadsworth, 2007) and Literacies and Technologies: A Reader for Contemporary Writers (Longman, 2001), co-author (with Robert K. Miller) of The Informed Argument, 6th edition (Wadsworth, 2003), co-editor (with Scott Leonard) of The Relevance of English: Teaching That Matters in Students' Lives (NCTE, 2002), and author of The Day the Lifting Bridge Stuck (Bradbury Press, 1992), a children's book.