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Michelle Hall Kells is Assistant Professor in the Rhetoric and Writing program. She has ten years teaching experience in Rhetoric and Composition. Her areas of specialization (civil rights rhetorics, sociolinguistics, and composition/literacy studies) coalesce around problems related to ethnolinguistic stratification and intercultural communication. Kells launched Attending to the Margins: Writing, Researching, and Teaching on the Front Lines (Heinemann, 1999) with Valerie Balester. A second, Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy (Heinemann, 2004) co-edited with Valerie Balester and Victor Villanueva focuses on teaching writing to diverse student populations. Her article "Linguistic Contact Zones: An Examination of Ethnolinguistic Identity and Language Attitudes" is featured in the January 2002 issue of Written Communication. A book focusing on the rhetoric of civic discourse, Inclusion Not Revolution: The Everyday Rhetorics of Dr. Héctor P. García and the Emergence of a Post-World War II Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (Southern Illinois University Press) is forthcoming. |
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