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MALEA POWELL
Associate Professor; Director, Rhetoric & Writing
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/432-2583 (office); 517/353-9162 (fax)
courses: WRA 125: Writing American Ethnic & Racial Experience; WRA 260: Rhetorics of American Culture; WRA 446: Writing in American Cultures (American Indian Rhetorics)
teaching interests: first-year writing, American Indian rhetorics and literatures, history of rhetoric, critical theory (postcolonial and postmodern emphasis), radical pedagogy
Powell earned her PhD at Miami University of Ohio in Rhetoric and Composition. Her research focuses on examining the rhetorics of survivance used by 19th century American Indian intellectuals, and on the material cultural rhetorics of American Indian artists. She has published essays in College Composition and Communication, Paradoxa, and several critical essay collections and has presented her work at the Modern Language Association Convention, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Mystic Lake Native American Literature Symposium, the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, and other scholarly gatherings. Powell is the editor of SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures, and is co-editor of the NCTE/Erlbaum Research Series in Composition. She directs the Rhetoric & Writing program here at Michigan State and is a faculty member in the American Indian Studies program.
Powell is a founding member of the National Center for the Study of Great Lakes Native American Culture--an organization dedicated to the preservation of Great Lakes indigenous history, art, and culture--and a participant in the Myaamia Project for the preservation of Miami Language and Culture (located at Miami University). In her spare time she works on applique and brick stitch beadwork projects and hopes to someday focus on Woodland beadwork traditions in her scholarship.
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