Katherine Crowe

Hello! I am an incoming PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition. I graduated with my bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of North Texas this spring. I spent three of my four years at UNT working in the Writing Center, where I developed a keen interest in writing pedagogy. Over the course of my time working there, I conducted research concerning linguistic justice in the writing center and freshman composition courses. As Laura Greenfield describes, Standard English is not one language, but a flexible category of dialects racialized as white, and the imposition of this standard serves to discourage students of color from representing their particular culture, identity, and perspective through the use of their community’s language, and contributing these valuable perspectives to their respective fields. Exploring a variety of diverse experiences through the study of literature in conjunction with my time working in the Writing Center has informed my goal of studying language as a tool of resistance and working to develop and enact anti- racist pedagogy. When I am not in school, I enjoy gardening, going to karaoke, and hanging out with my cat!