Dr. Felicita Arzu Carmichael, Assistant Professor in Writing and Rhetoric, along with Professional and Digital Writing majors Kat Oak Stevenson and Michael Zittritsch, will present at this month's National Council of Teachers of English conference.
Their presentation, entitled "Accounting for anti-racist literacy practices in and out of the college writing classroom" invokes activist thinking and antiracist commitments to identifying and revising literacy practices that have historically ignored or misrepresented the voices and experiences of marginalized teachers and students. Focusing on three sites of inquiry—sound text, multimodal literacy, and freshman composition—each panelist demonstrates how teachers and students who study and practice language and literacy, can be purposeful and explicit about our “responsibility to implement antiracist practices” that “actively work to dismantle structures of white privilege” (CWPA, 2020).
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Michael Zittritsch
Kat Oak Stevenson
Dr. Felicita Arzu Carmichael