Challenging How English Is Done: Engaging the Ethical and the Human in a Community Literacies Seminar

Authors

Susan Weinstein, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical CollegeFollow
Jeremy Cornelius, Louisiana State University (PhD student)Follow
Shannon Kenny, Louisiana State University (MFA Student)
Muriel Leung, Louisiana State University (MFA Student)
Grace Shuyi Liew, Louisiana State University
Kieren Lyons, Louisiana State University (PhD student)
Alejandro Torres, Louisiana State University (PhD student)
Matthew Tougas, Louisiana State University (PhD Student)
Sarah Webb, Louisiana State University (PhD student)

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Eight English graduate students and a professor reflect on their semesterlong exploration of community literacy studies. The students, some in a MFA Creative Writing program and some doing doctoral work in literature, rhetoric, or English Education, discuss how the community literacies lens unsettled their relationship to English Studies.

Recommended Citation

Weinstein, Susan, et al. “Challenging How English Is Done: Engaging the Ethical and the Human in a Community Literacies Seminar.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 10, no. 2, 2016, pp. 27–42, doi:10.25148/clj.10.2.009264.