Present When my daughter is four, I return to the town where she was born. I return for an ending. I return for a ceremony. As we drive, I am all pointy fingers—"there’s the green house, the striped hammock, the duck pond.” My body remembers humidity as my...
Title image: Deborah Lupton / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ As two teacher-scholars working in Arkansas, we have participated in many conversations about the so-called inevitability of generative AI and what higher...
I enter this writing as a Black woman. I am mothering four beautiful children—ages 13,11, 9, and 4—at the time of this writing. I am pursuing my doctoral degree at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) in the South and write this at a time when universities have...
At the last wedding I went to, the groom’s godmother and the bride’s sister both used artificial intelligence to write their toasts. I know because—unlike my students, sheepish during our hushed conversations in the hallway—they freely admitted to it. In the...
A little too often, we (Erin, Gavin, and Ruby) have conversations with colleagues, family, community members, as well as passersby who are concerned about the decline of literacy in the United States. Looking at the broader discourse, in just the past fourteen months,...
Peace. When I first started writing corresponding rap lyrics in the margins while notetaking, I didn't recognize that those rhymes were a second set of notes provided by my community about the subject. I didn't understand that those bars were theorizing about everyday...
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...
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...
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...
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...