Dr. Amanda Sladek

Education

• Ph.D., English. University of Kansas. 2016.
• B.A., English and Psychology. Midland University. 2011.

Areas of Specialization

• Composition and Basic Writing pedagogies
• Literacy studies
• World Englishes
• Antiracism and linguistic justice
• Writing Program Administration

Publications

• "A Historical Perspective on Gendered Language in Writing Studies Journals" (with Coleman Riggins). Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language. Spec. issue of Across the Disciplines, edited by Chris C. Palmer, Amanda Sladek, and Jennifer Stone, 21.3 (2024)
• “A Conversation with Ellen Cushman and Naomi Trevino: Literacy, Recent Histories, and Indigenous Language Persistence” (with Ellen Cushman, Naomi Trevino, Chris C. Palmer and Jennifer Stone). Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language. Spec. issue of Across the Disciplines, edited by Chris C. Palmer, Amanda Sladek, and Jennifer Stone, 21.3 (2024)
• “Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language: An Introduction” (with Chris C. Palmer and Jennifer Stone). Confluences of Writing Studies and the History of the English Language. Spec. issue of Across the Disciplines, edited by Chris C. Palmer, Amanda Sladek, and Jennifer Stone, 21.2 (2024)
• “Revision Rainbow: Editing for Sentence Variety.” Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition: 96 Ways to Immerse, Inspire, and Captivate Students, Eds. Michal Reznizki and David T. Coad, NCTE, 2023.
• “Student-Centered Grammar Feedback in the Basic Writing Classroom: Toward a Translingual Grammar Pedagogy.” Journal of Basic Writing 40.2 (2022): 68-95.
• “‘Say What You Want to Say!’: Teaching Literacy Autoethnography to Resist Linguistic Prejudice.” Self+Culture+Writing: Autoethnography for/as Writing Studies. Eds. Rebecca Jackson and Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Utah State UP, 2021: 126-135.
• “Literacy as Threshold Concept: Building Multiliterate Awareness in First-Year Writing.” Composition Studies 47.2 (2019): 108-126.
• “Using Digital Resources to Teach Language Variation in the Midwest” (with Mattie Lane). Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom: Strategies and Models from Teachers and Linguists. Eds. Chris C. Palmer and Michelle Devereaux, Routledge, 2019: 129-137.
• "The New Literacies Narrative." Writing on the Edge 26.1 (2015): 63-72.
• "Constructing the Crisis: Audience Perceptions of For-Profit Education and Institutional Integrity in the Closure of Dana College." International Journal for Educational Integrity 10.2 (2014): 60-70.

Courses Taught

• ENG100A: English for Academic Purposes

• ENG101: Introduction of Academic Writing

• ENG102: Academic Writing and Research

• ENG 254: Introduction to Literature: Special Topics: Taylor Swift

• ENG303: Introduction to Linguistics

• ENG311: Advanced Writing

• ENG805: Teaching of Composition

• ENG808: English Around the Globe

• ENG809: Theory of Rhetoric and Composition

• ENG899: Special Topics: Rural Literacies

• ENG 899: Special Topics: Writing Instruction and Multiple Literacies

• LOPR126: First Year Seminar (You at UNK: Developing Individual, Intellectual, and Interpersonal Identity)

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