Department of English at Illinois State University

English Department Graduate Assistants

McDuffie

Kristi McDuffie

Doctoral Student
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Cultural rhetorics and writing, rhetorics of race, critical pedagogy, language ideologies

Office Address: STV 201A
Office Phone: 309-438-8077
Office Hours: M 3:30-4:30
Email: Contact Kristi McDuffie (kmcduff)
Website: Visit Kristi McDuffie’s Website
Teaching Schedule:
Teaching Interests:
Composition, Rhetorical Theory
Research Interests:
Cultural rhetorics and writing, rhetorics of race, critical pedagogy, language ideologies
Education:
Illinois State University PhD Candidate (concentration in Rhetoric and Composition)
Eastern Illinois University M.A. English (concentration in Rhetoric and Composition)
University of Illinois B.S. Finance 2003
Selected Publications:

“The “Hispanic” Race Debate: Limitations of the Term in an Orlando School Board Controversy.” Xchanges. Forthcoming (March 2013).

 

“Epideictic Rhetoric in Jezebel’s Breastfeeding Blogs: The Battle for Normalcy.” Fabricating the Body: Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourses. Ed. Sarah Burcon. Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Forthcoming (2013 or 2014).

 

“Technology and Models of Literacy in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction.” Brave New Teenagers: Contemporary YA Dystopias. Ed. Carrie Hintz, Balaka Basu, and Kate Broad. Forthcoming by Taylor & Francis Press (2013).

 

“The Discourse of Medium: Time as a Narrative Device.” Time in Television Narrative:  Exploring Temporality in 21st Century Programming. Ed. Melissa Ames. University Press of Mississippi, 2012.

 

“Helping Students Negotiate Dialects in the Writing Center.” The Writing Lab Newsletter 34.9-10 (2010): 14-15. https://writinglabnewsletter.org/archives.php

 

“Kairotic Moments in the Writing Center.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 7.1 (2009). http://emil.uwc.utexas.edu/praxis/?q=node/284 Co-authored with Timothy Taylor, Nia Klein, Fern Kory, Devin Black, and Serena Heath.

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