Kevin Roozen
Kevin Roozen, Assistant Professor. Kevin received his PhD in English with a specialization in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research explores sociohistoric approaches to literacy and language and the interplay between the literate practices and discourses persons encounter in settings such as home, the community, school, and the workplace. His current research involves longitudinal ethnographic case studies of students’ school and non-school writing and an ethnographic study of multimodal composing and performance in an undergraduate sketch comedy troupe. Kevin’s curiosity about the ways literacy functions in all areas of people’s lives greatly influences his teaching. Literacy narratives, ethnographies of literacy learning, the intersections of technology and literacy, and issues of rhetorical theory and practice are just a few of the avenues students are likely to explore in his classes.
Kevin’s work has appeared in Text and Talk: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse, and Communication Studies and Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. His recent articles “From Journaling to Journalism: Tracing Trajectories of Literate Development” and “Journalism, Poetry, Stand-Up Comedy, and Academic Literacy: Mapping the Interplay of Curricular and Extracurricular Literate Activities” are forthcoming in College Composition and Communicationand the Journal of Basic Writing.