Kathryn Perry

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College of Arts & Letters
English
Phone
323-343-4292

Kathryn Perry (PhD in Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, 2016) is an Associate Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. She teaches courses in the First Year Writing Program as well as courses in writing pedagogy and literacy studies at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She's currently Associate Chair. Her research areas include community writing and engaged learning, new literacy studies, composition theory and pedagogy, and graduate student writing.

 

Recent Publications

“We’re Doing It!” The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, Special Issue on Carework and Writing During COVID. 7.1 Sept 2022.

“Writing from Mesas and Glaciers“ in “Voices in Vulnerability: Experiential Learning in Pedagogy and Curriculum,” a six-part essay co-authored with Sara Bardales, Michael Calabrese, Linda Greenberg, Amy Robb, and Lizette Toribio. Text & Type, Spring 2022.

“Writing for Social Change: What Happened When Graduate Students Wrote for/with WordsUncaged.” Co-authored with Bidhan Roy. Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning. Special Issue on Prison Writing, Literacies, and Communities. July 2019. 

"Literacy Sponsorship as a Process of Translation: Using Actor-Network Theory to Analyze Power within Emergent Relationships at Family Scholar House.” Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis, edited by Kristine Blair and Lee Nickoson, The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2018, pp. 195-212.