Faculty Directory
Keith Gilyard
Distinguished Professor of English
Contact:
20 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-9123
rkg3@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Wednesday 12-3
Educational History:
Ed.D. New York University
M.F.A. Columbia University
B.S. City University of New York
Research Interests:
Intersections of African American English and composition practices; mapping the African American rhetorical tradition; the rhetorical aspects of African American expressive culture; critical race studies; American and African American literature; sociolinguistics; pedagogy; poetry
Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts and Humanities, 2006
The Penn State Class of 1933 Medal of Distinction in the Humanities. 2005
Inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent, 2002
Major Publications:
Rhetoric and Ethnicity , ed. with Vorris Nunley (Heinemann, 2004)
Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver Killens (Wayne State University Press, 2003)
Poemographies (Whirlwind Press, 2001)
Race, Rhetoric, and Composition , ed. (Heinemann, 1999)
Spirit & Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry , ed. (Syracuse University Press,1997)
“A Literary Biography of John Oliver Killens”
Other Publications:
African American Literature , ed. with Anissa Wardi (Longman, 2004)
“'I Have Fun with Language': An Interview with Keith Gilyard,” by Sharon James McGee. Writing on the Edge , Vol. 14, No.2, pp. 23-37. (2004)
“Aspects of African American Rhetoric as a Field.” In African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives , edited by Elaine Richardson and Ronald Jackson II, pp. 1-18. (Southern Illinois University Press, 2004)
“Haki Madhubuti: Retrospect and Prospect.” The Writer's Chronicle , Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 4-9. (2004)
Rhetorical Choices: A Reader for Writers , ed. with Deborah Holdstein and Chuck Schuster (Longman, 2003)
How I Figure: Poems (Whirlwind Press, 2003)
“Composition and the Critical Moment.” In Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past, Rewriting the Future , edited by Lynn Bloom, Donald Daiker, and Edward White, pp. 227-236. (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003)
“Holdin It Down: Students' Right and the Struggle over Language Diversity.” In Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work , edited by Gary Olson, pp. 115-127. (Southern Illinois University Press, 2002)
“It Ain't Hard to Tell: Distinguishing Fact from Fallacy in the Ebonics Controversy.” In Ebonics and Language Education , edited by Clinton Crawford, pp. 202-213. (Sankofa World Publishers, 2001)
“Literacy, Identity, Imagination, Flight.” College Composition and Communication , Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 260-272. (2001)
"The Bible and African American Poetry." In African Americans and the Bible , edited by Vincent Wimbush, pp. 205-220. (Continuum, 2000)|
“Basic Writing, Cost Effectiveness, and Ideology.” Journal of Basic Writing , Vol. 19, No.1, pp. 36-42. (2000)
"African American Contributions to Composition Studies." College Composition and Communication , Vol. 50, No. 4 , pp. 626-644. (1999)
Let's Flip the Script: An African American Discourse on Language, Literature, and Learning (Wayne State University Press, 1996)
Language and African American Fiction . Medgar Evers College, City University of New York, 1993.
Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence. Wayne State University Press,
