Composition: History & Theory: 1990 - 1999
Ellen Cushman
Description
Cushman got her PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 1996. Her scholarly research includes literacy, new media, and Cherokee history, language and identity. She describes her (personal) interests as outreach, public engagement, service learning, community literacy, literacy studies, Cherokee language, literacy and identity, and multimedia production.
Beyond several essays across the journals, she has edited or written a few texts: Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook (2001) and The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community (1998). The courses she teaches seem to range from literacy, composition research, multimedia writing, and theory.
She considers herself a “public intellectual” and has developed two community literacy projects. One partners students from an English Education course with patrons from a local library. This partnership of writing allows both parties to learn from each other. The other literacy project involved students conducting research and creating sections of a website for the Cherokee Nation, which include multimedia material such as videos.
Date of Upload
3 Nov. 2009