Faculty Directory
Elaine Richardson
Associate Professor of English and Applied Linguistics
Contact:
41 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Office Phone: 814-865-0028
ebr2@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 9:30-11:30 and Tuesday 9:30-11
Educational History:
Ph.D. Michigan State
M.A., B.A. Cleveland State University
Research Interests:
language and literacy studies, discourse and society, literacies and discourse practices of Afro diasporic cultures, Afro American oral folk traditions, sociolinguistics
Awards:
Fulbright Scholar Award Lecturing and Research, University of the West Indies, Mona, August-December, 2004; Outstanding Book Award (2004) by National Communication Association for Understanding African American Rhetoric , co-editor with Dr. Ronald Jackson
Major Publications:
(monograph) African American Literacies (Routledge); Edited Collection- Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations (2003) Routledge, and Edited Collection- African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2004) Southern Illinois University Press.
Books in Progress:
(monograph) Hiphop Literacies (forthcoming, Routledge); Co-edited collection Home Girls Make Some Noise!:Hip Hop Feminism Anthology, with collaborators Gwendolyn Pough of Syracuse University, Rachel Raimist of University of Minnesota, and Aisha Durham University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; (monograph) Dancehall and Hiphop: Black Discourses in Popular Culture
Various articles and chapters related to language and literacy
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