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Keith Gilyard - Featured Speaker
(Special Event)
Composition at Virginia Speakers Series Spring 2010 Colloquium presents Keith Gilyard from Penn State University on Monday, March 1 in Shanks Hall, Rm. 370. The title of his talk is "Keeping Our Heads in the Language Game: On Political Talk, King, and Obama"
Keith Gilyard is currently a distinguished professor of English at Penn State. His research interests include intersections of African American English and composition practices; mapping the African American rhetorical tradition; the rhetorical aspects of African American expressive culture; critical race studies; American and African American literature; sociolinguistics; pedagogy; and poetry. He is the author of several books such as Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric and Poetics of John Oliver
Killens (2003) and Rhetoric and Ethnicity (2004).
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