LEAVES OF LAUREL
ABOUT LAUREN-ELISE KADEL
Lauren-Elise is researching First Year Writing and African American literature. She is currently working through examples of African American reading and writing practices from the slave narratives to the twenty-first century, looking to develop different models of literacy that today’s students can use to understand their own reading and writing habits.
Her favorite author, and one she writes a lot about, is Toni Morrison. In addition, her other research interest centers on investigating strategies for teaching students whose first language is not English. Her goal is to make these strategies more central to the way instructors teach First Year Writing to all students.
She teaches courses in literature, on race and in composition, and first year seminar.
PUBLICATIONS. RESEARCH. EDITING.
Selected Articles, Books, Chapters, and Conferences
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“Hear Me? Slave, Free, I Last”: Reading Race and ‘Marked’ Texts in Morrison’s Re-Vision of History in A Mercy.
Transscripts Vol. 5, May 2015.
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“Re-Imagining Classrooms as Situated Communities through Multicultural Texts”
Midwest MLA Panel on Teaching Multicultural Literature in the Classroom. November 12-14, 2015. Columbus, OH.
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“Shared Spaces and Histories: The Evolution of a Conversation Partners Program at a Writing Center.”
Penn TESOL East. Presented with Liz Eursell, Student Success Center Co-Director, Temple University. November 4, 2017. Arcadia University.
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“Scribes or Serfs? Professional Writing Tutors in Theory and Practice”
MAWCA Roundtable. Presented with Sarah Marshall and Luke Swinson, Jefferson, East Falls Campus. March 23-24, 2018. Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ.
