Elaine B. Richardson Week at Case Western University

HUMANITIES WEEK DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Case Western University

ELAINE RICHARDSON

Critical Literacy and Discourse Practices of African American Females in the Age of Hiphop and the New Racism
Monday, April 16, 11:30 (Clark Hall 206)

My Ill Literacy Narrative: Growing Up Black and Po in Cleveland
Tues, April 17, 11:30 (Clark Hall 206)

Racism, Sexuality, Class, Gender and Literacy
Wednesday, April 18, 11:30 (Clark Hall 206)

Elaine Richardson is a graduate of the Cleveland Public Schools and East Technical High School. She received her BA and MA in English from Cleveland State University, and her Ph.D. in English Composition and Applied Linguistics from Michigan State University. She taught at the University of Minnesota’s General College for two years before joining the English Department faculty at Penn State University, where she is currently an Associate Professor in English and Applied Linguistics.

Dr. Richardson has published several books. Her first, African American Literacies, focuses on teaching writing from the point of view of African American language and literacy traditions. Her most recent book, Hiphop Literacies, is a study of Hiphop language use as an extension of Black folk traditions. She is currently writing a book about her experiences growing up as a girl from the hood of Cleveland, and how she climbed out of the underworld to further her education and become who she is today. Its working title is PhD to PhD-from Po Ho on Dope to PhD: The Literacy Narrative of Dr. Elaine Richardson.

Additionally Dr. Richardson is an accomplished R&B vocalist, performing as the featured vocalist in the Cleveland-based band Fleshcoat. Their most recent release is Coat of Flesh.