A bit about me. I'm the cofounder of a digital storytelling project in Alabama. In the project I work with African American kids (who are anywhere from 7 yrs old to 14 or so) a faculty colleague and undergraduate volunteers. I am also on the tenure-track as a qualitative research methdologist in the College of Education. Before coming to The University of Alabama, I directed a digital storytelling project in Delaware called "Sankofa Stories," and I was an assistant professor at the University of Delaware. Before that, I was an assistant professor of qualitative research and multicultural education at Indiana State University.
...And before that, I was a graduate student at Michigan State University trying to figure out how to connect my love of reading and writing with questions about how we make sense of ourselves and the social worlds/spaces we inhabit.
In an AERA-type nutshell, my main research interests are identity, literacy, agency and community. To pursue these interests, I focus on the stories we tell and how these narratives are represented in blogs, photoessays, web sites, video games, digital stories and other forms of new media.
Although I've started this blog in order to assist people in the Writing and Literacies SIG of AERA with knowing a little bit more about me, I'm looking forward to posting here. Particularly since I can be a "published woman" each time I click the little orange button.
Nothing like instant gratification.
Anyway, a bit more about me, or actually, about my family: today is my daughter's fifth birthday! Right before creating this blog I dropped her off at preschool, along with the requisite cupcakes and goodybags for her class. As a way to stave off the realization that time passes so quickly (and to pay homage to my anthropologist forebearers), I am looking forward to creating a digital recording of the (small) birthday party we'll be having for her tonight.
Looking forward to seeing you in New York next year, if not sooner.
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