Brandon M. Erby | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Brandon M. Erby

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

bmerby@uky.edu

1335 Patterson Office Tower

(859) 218-0690

Education

Ph.D., English & African American and Diaspora Studies, Penn State University

M.A., English (Rhetoric & Composition), Penn State University

M.A., English (Literature), Seton Hall University

B.A., English, Tougaloo College

Research Interests

African American Rhetoric
Rhetorical History
Rhetorical Education
Literacy Studies
Prison Studies
Political Rhetoric

Affiliations

Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
African American and Africana Studies
Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies
Social Theory

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

"Imagining Freedom: Cultural Rhetorics, Digital Literacies, and Podcasting in Prison." College Composition and Communication 75.1 (2023): 224-241. https://publicationsncte.org/content/journals/10.58680/ccc202332676

"With the movie 'Till,' Mamie Till-Mobley's quest to educate the world about her son's lynching marches on." The Conversation (2022). https://theconversation.com/with-the-movie-till-mamie-till-mobleys-quest-to-educate-the-world-about-her-sons-lynching-marches-on-191554

“Community, Voice, Identity: The Principles of Cultural Rhetorics Pedagogies,” with Andrea Riley Mukavetz, Ana Milena Ribero, and Kimberly Wieser. constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space 4 (2021). https://constell8cr.com/issue-4/community-voice-identity-principles-of-cultural-rhetorics-pedagogies/

"Surviving the Jim Crow South: 'The Talk' as an African American Rhetorical Form." Journal for the History of Rhetoric 24.1 (2021): 24-38. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/26878003.2021.1881308

"Mamie Till-Mobley and the Efforts of Young Black People in Movements for Black Lives." Emmett Till Project (2020). https://www.emmetttillproject.com/brandon-erby

"The Changing Same of American Racism: African American Rhetoric and the Rejection of Normalcy." Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal 2 (2020). https://sparkactivism.com/volume-2-call/vol-2-intro/same-american-racism/

“Learning is an All-Black Thing: Literacy, Pedagogy, and Black Educational Institutions after Brown v. Board of Education.” Open Words: Access and English Studies 12 (2019): 110-25. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/openwords/v12/erby.pdf

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