Afrocentric Teacher-Research

Staci M. Perryman-Clark is Assistant Professor of English-Rhetoric and Writing Studies and Director of First-Year Writing at Western Michigan University. She is the editor of Reading and Writing in the Age of Cultural Diversity (2011). Her recent publications appear in Composition Forum, Composition Studies, WPA: Writing Program Administration, Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Composition and Literature, Teaching English in a Two-Year College, and Computers and Composition.

«In this book, Perryman-Clark […] pushes our notions about what might constitute a common approach into a fresh new space by putting an Afrocentric worldview at the center of a writing curriculum that teaches students to value ‘all’ languages and language practices. […] This is important, forward-thinking scholarship that all teachers, administrators and graduate teachers should take seriously.» (Malea Powell, 2012 Chair, Conference on College Composition & Communication; Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures, Michigan State University)