Upcoming Events and Readings: Winter 2018 Readings of 12 Rounds in Lo's Gym will be held throughout New York's Capital District in conjunction with the release of the book. (Dates and locations coming soon.) March 12, 2018 Hip-Hop Week Keynote Lecture, sponsored by the Damietta Cross-Cultural Center, Siena College, Loudonville, N.Y. (Guests TBD.) April 5-8, 2018 Appalachian Studies …
Trailer Park Kid from Rural West Virginia. First-Generation College Student. College Professor. Reader. Writer. Husband. Daddy. Boxing Aficionado. Rappalachian. Coffee Junkie. Working-Class Scholar. Not in that particular order. I teach college courses that focus on rhetoric’s connection to identity construction. I write about this sort of stuff too. My first book, The Rhetoric of Appalachian …
The book that started it all. In this work the various ways that social, economic, and cultural factors influence the identities and educational aspirations of rural working-class Appalachian learners are explored. The objectives are to highlight the cultural obstacles that impact the intellectual development of such students and to address how these cultural roadblocks make transitioning into …
