African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Contributors

295 Contributors LENA AMPADU is an associate professor of English at Towson University, where she teaches courses on African American literature, African women writers, and undergraduate writing. Her research interests include the rhetoric of nineteenth-century African American women and the intersections of orality and literacy in the teaching of writing. ADAM J. BANKS is an assistant professor of writing and rhetoric at Syracuse University. His current research interests include African American rhetoric, technology, composition, and critical race theory. JACQUELINE K. BRYANT is an associate professor of English and the chairperson of the Department of English and Speech at Chicago State University. She is the author of The Foremother Figure in Early Black Women’s Literature: “Clothed in My Right Mind” (1999) and the editor of Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha: A Critical Collection (2002). She recorded, transcribed, and compiled stories of Black elders in A Jubilee Project, edited by the Reverend Dr. Otis Moss Jr. (2002). She has also published articles in the Journal of Black Studies , CLA Journal, and WarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas and currently serves on the editorial review board of the International Journal of Africana Studies. Her research interests include the literary works and the lives of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth -century Black women writers. KERMIT E. CAMPBELL is an assistant professor of rhetoric in the Interdisciplinary Writing department at Colgate University, where he teaches freshmen composition, social science writing, and African American rhetoric. With scholarly interests ranging from African oral traditions to African American formal oratory to rap music, Campbell has contributed various essays and reviews to several rhetoric and composition journals. His forthcoming book is entitled Gettin’ Our Groove On: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation. VICTORIA CLIETT is a learning specialist at Wayne State University. She is a recipient of the CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award and a member of the CCCC Language Policy Committee. WILLIAM W. COOK is a professor of African and African American studies and the Israel Evans Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres at Dartmouth College. The actor and director is also the author of nu- 296 Contributors merous essays, poems, and books, including the play Flight to Canada (1989). He has most recently published his poems in Spiritual and Other Poems by William W. Cook (1999). Cook is the 2001 Daniel Heftal Lecturer in the Humanities and has been acknowledged as one of the top fifty Black scholars in the arts and sciences in the 1998 Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. CLINTON CRAWFORD is the director of the John Henrik Clarke–C. L. R. James African World Research Institute and teaches the first course on the life and works of John Henrik Clarke at Medgar Evers College , City University of New York. An associate professor in the Department of Mass Communications, he has expertise in language communications and art. Crawford is also the author of the internationally acclaimed book Recasting Ancient Egypt in the African Context (1996). KEITH GILYARD is a professor of English at Pennsylvania State University. His books include Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence and Let’s Flip the Script: An African American Discourse on Language, Literature, and Learning. He is also the editor of Race Rhetoric and Composition and is a coeditor of Rhetoric and Ethnicity. Gilyard is a former chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). RONALD L. JACKSON II is an associate professor of culture and communication theory in the Department of Communication Arts and Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Negotiation of Cultural Identity (1999) and African American Communication: Identity and Culture (with Michael Hecht and Sidney Ribeau) and the editor of Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations (with Elaine B. Richardson, 2003) and African American Communication and Identities (2003). Forthcoming are two books: Negotiating the Black Body: Intersections of Communication, Culture, and Identity and Pioneers in African American Communication Research (with Sonja Brown-Givens). His theory work includes the development of two paradigms coined “cultural contracts theory” and “black masculine identity theory.” SHIRLEY WILSON LOGAN is an associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches courses in writing , histories of rhetoric, and composition theory. She specializes in the public discourse of nineteenth-century Black women and is working on a critical edition of Frances Harper’s nonfiction prose. [3.19.56.45] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 08:57...