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- Department of English -
Kirk Branch
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle
Composistion
Office: Wilson 2-269
Phone: 406 994-7139
E-Mail:
branch@english.montana.edu
Course Schedule Spring 2008
English 338 Section 01
TR 3:35-4:50 in Wilson 1-139
Office Hours
TR 2:00-3:00, W 3:00-4:00
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1998 and moved to Bozeman in 2002 after four years as an assistant professor at the University of Kansas. I am the coordinator of
composition, working closely with Teaching Assistants and the English 121 classes. My area of speciality is rhetoric and composition, with a particular focus on literacy studies.
In addition to my university teaching, I have worked as a teacher at a literacy center in Seattle, on the Tulalip Indian Reservation, in the county jail in Lawrence, Kansas, and in an adult basic
education class at a vocational school in Seattle. These experiences have inspired most of my research.
Selected Recent Publications
“Eyes on the Ought To Be”: What We Teach About When We Teach About Literacy ; forthcoming from Hampton Press. (due September 2006).
“In the Hallways of the Literacy Narrative: Power in the Lives of Adult Students.” in Multiple Literacies in the 21st Century . Eds. Charles Bazerman, Brian Huot and Beth Stroble. Hampton Press (2004), 13-38.
“What Work Requires of Schools: Literacy and Control in Education for the ‘High-Performance Workplace.’” Journal Of Teaching Writing . 16.2 (1998, published 2000): 295-331.
“From the Margins at the Center: Literacy, Authority, and the Great Divide.” College Composition and Communication 50.2 (December 1998): 206-231.
Projects
I am currently continuing research on the Highlander Folk School, which is the subject of a chapter in my forthcoming book. I am also continuing my study of Basil Bernstein, especially interested in the potential contributions of his latest work to the field of composition.
Resources
Highland Research Education Center
Children’s Museum of Bozeman
Disclaimer:
The links, opinions or statements expressed herein should not be taken as a position or endorsement of MSU-Bozeman or its affiliates.
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