Department of Writing and Rhetoric

Professor and Students in Writing and Rhetoric to Present at NCTE 2021 Conference

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Professor and Students in Writing and Rhetoric to Present at NCTE 2021 Conference

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).

To learn more about the Department of Writing and Rhetoric, including courses offered, visit oakland.edu/wrt.

A headshot of Michael Zittritsch.

Michael Zittritsch

A headshot of Kat Stevenson.

Kat Oak Stevenson

headshot of Felicita Arzu Carmichael

Dr. Felicita Arzu Carmichael

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