Bronwyn T. Williams

Appointments

• Associate Professor
• Director of Composition

Departments

• Current Faculty

Location

• Room 321
• Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus

Phone Number

• 502-852-6896

Email Address

• bronwyn.williams at louisville.edu

Website

• louisville.edu/~btwill02/

---

Bio

Office Hours: Spring 2008, On Sabbatical

English Courses Recently Taught:

ENGL 602 - 01: Teaching College Composition (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 310 - 01: Writing About Literature (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 602 - 01: Teaching College Composition (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 691 - 01: Theory, Literacy, and Cultural Studies (Fall 2005)

 

 

Educational Background

• Ph.D. from University of New Hampshire

Teaching Areas

• Writing Pedagogy and Theory; Literacy and Popular Culture; Literacy and Identity; Creative Nonfiction; Writing About Literature

Research Interests

• Literacy, Popular Culture, and Pedagogy; Literacy and Identity; Creative Nonfiction and the "Personal" in writing; Cross-Cultural Literacy Practices

Publications

• Recent Books

                        

  Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy.  With Amy A.Zenger. Routledge Press. 2007.

   

  Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education. Editor of Collection. Utah State University Press. 2006.

          

  Tuned In: Television and the Teaching of Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook. 2002.

           

  Shimmering Literacies: Popular Culture and Reading and Writing Online. London: Peter Lang. (In Preparation).

              

• Recent Journal Articles

   

  “`Which South Park Character Are You?’ Popular Culture, Literacy, and Online Performances of Identity” Computers And Composition 25.1. 2008 24-39.

   

  “Dancing with Don: Or Waltzing with “Expressivism” Enculturation. Spring 2008.

   

  “Who Reads and Writes in Hollywood?:  Reading Representations of Literacy in Contemporary Movies” With Amy Zenger International Journal of Learning. Vol 11. 2004.

          

  “Television, Authorship, and Student Writers.” Academic Exchange Quarterly. Special Issue on Media Literacy. 8.1. Spring 2004. 129-133.

   

  “Speak for Yourself?: Power and Hybridity in the Cross-Cultural Classroom.” College Composition and Communication. 54.4 June 2003. 586-609.

   

  “What They See is What We Get: Television and Middle School Writers” Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 46.7 April 2003. 546-554.

                   

  “Never Let the Truth Stand in the Way of a Good Story: A Work for Three Voices.” College English. 65.3. January 2003. 586-609.

   

  “The Pleasures Brought to Class: Literacy, Popular Culture, and the Middle School Classroom.” International Journal of Learning. Vol. 10. 2003. 965-976.

                 

  “Reflections on a Shimmering Screen: Television’s Relationship to Writing Pedagogies.” The Writing Instructor. 2.0. December 2001.

   

   

• Recent Book Chapters

                    

  "Inspired Artists and Office Drones: Taking Literacy Narratives to the Movies" In Using Popular Culture in the Writing Classroom. Allison Smith, Trixie Smith, and Rebecca Bobbitt, Eds. Wadsworth. 2008.

   

  “Foreword” Multimodal Composition: Resources for Teachers. Cynthia Selfe, Ed. Hampton Press 2007.

   

  “Introduction: Literacy, Power and the Shaping of Identity. In Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education. Bronwyn T. Williams, Ed. Utah State University Press. 2006. 1-13.

   

  “The Book and the Truth: Faith, Rhetoric, and Teaching Across Cultures.” Negotiating Roles of Faith in Teaching Writing. Elizabeth VanderLei and Bonnie Kyburz, Ed. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook. 2005. 105-120.

                

  “Changing Directions: Participatory Research, Agency, and Representation.” With Mary Brydon-Miller. In Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis. Sidney Dobrin and Stephen Brown, Eds. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 2004. 241-257.

   

  “Where Should We Want to Go Today? Some Cultural Implications of Computers and Composition.” In TnT: Texts and Technology. Janice R. Walker and Ollie O. Oviedo. Eds. Hampton Press. 2003. 241-270.