Shannon Carter

Associate Professor

Office: HL 209
Phone: 903.886.5492
E-mail: Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu

Website: http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/

Curriculum Vitae: Carter.doc

Shannon Carter is Associate Professor of English and co-director of the new Converging Literacies Center (CLiC). Her research interests include prison literacy (published in the Spring 2008 issue of the Community Literacy Journal) and potential applications of New Literacy Studies and activity theory to writing center work and the basic writing classroom. Other, related interests include conservative rhetoric (published in College English, 2007) and academic labor issues (article forthcoming in CCC and chapter in Identity Politics, published by Utah State UP in 2006). Her book, The Way Literacy Lives: Rhetorical Dexterity and Basic Writing Instruction, was published in 2008 with State University of New York Press, an article-length version of which appeared in the 25th anniversary issue of the Journal of Basic Writing.

Carter is also co-chair of the national organization, Conference on Basic Writing, co-editor of the BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal (publishing multimodal scholarship), co-editor of the First-Year Writing Feature of the national, peer-reviewed journal Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric, and a reviewer for the Journal of Basic Writing, College English, and Young Scholars in Writing. In 2008, she brought the WPA-NMA project the National Conversation on Writing (NCoW) to A&M-Commerce, which will serve as NCoW’s institutional home for the next three years. She is also interested in writing with video and the production and circulation of digital/mutimodal scholarship.