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It’s International Children’s Book Day: Our Favorite Stories for Young Readers
Every year on April 2nd (Hans Christian Anderson's birthday!), the world celebrates International Children's Book Day – highlighting the creative, beautiful stories available around the world to educate, entertain, and empower kids and help them grow. Sure, a great...
Literacy Grantees Impact Arkansas, Nation; 2026 Grant Program Now Open
The Community Literacies Collaboratory (CLC), the signature program of the Brown Chair in English Literacy, awarded $88,194 in grants to Arkansas and national literacy organizations, educators, researchers and advocates. The funded projects commenced in fall 2025 and...
A Pedagogy of Kindness, Inclusivity, and Joy in the Writing Classroom: A Personal Reflection Through Practice
Late on a December day in Pullman, Washington, I was completing my syllabus for the “College Composition” class that I was scheduled to teach in the upcoming spring semester. As a new international graduate teaching assistant, I was reasonably nervous about embarking...
McComiskey, Bruce. Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition. University Press of Colorado, 2017. 58 pages. $6.96 paperback.
In the age where the authenticity of information, the credibility of sources, and the reasoning behind media productions are often rhetorical, the concept of truth in rhetorical studies has drawn significant attention. As rhetorical traditions deal with ethics of...
Welcome to the Sandbox
Dear Readers, During my childhood summers, my family and I would go to Jones Beach on the southern coast of Long Island, New York and enjoy all the sun, water, and breezes the Atlantic Ocean had to offer. A favorite pastime of mine, my siblings, and cousins was to dig...
Book Review: See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure in the Interwar Era. By Tara T. Green
“Hidden away from public scrutiny is where a Black woman who cherished respectability joyfully reminisces about her indulgence of feelings that she wishes not to forget.”1 So begins Tara T. Green’s exploration of Black women’s challenges and achievements in seeking...
The “I” in Me
Curiosity, yes, curious I was. That was me. I knew early on that my voice was dormant (having normal physical functions suspended or slowed down for a period; in or as if in a deep sleep,) yet I was around situations that caused my laughter to celebrate like joy and...
Reading Everyday Life: A Rhetoric and Composition Scholar’s Reflections on Experiencing Art that Commemorates Black Life and Legacies
Photo Credit: Photo of Kehinde Wiley’s “Archeology of a Silence” piece taken by Stacy Botex on April 21, 2024 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. In April 2024, my wife and I traveled to Houston, Texas for the first time....
Building Literacy and Engagement Through Hip-Hop Pedagogy
As a social worker in a public elementary school, I see how deeply hip-hop is embedded in my students’ interactions and culture. I see it when they’re dancing or reciting lyrics to a hip-hop song, when they give each other a fist bump, when they use slang, and when...