Brandon M. Erby | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Brandon M. Erby

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

bmerby@uky.edu

1335 Patterson Office Tower

(859) 218-0690

Research Interests

African American Rhetoric
Literacy Studies
Civil Rights & Black Power Movements
Rhetorical History
Rhetorical Education
Prison Studies

Affiliations

Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
African American and Africana Studies
Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies
Social Theory

Education:

Ph.D., English & African American and Diaspora Studies, Penn State University

M.A., English (Rhetoric & Composition), Penn State University; M.A., English (Literature), Seton Hall University

B.A., English, Tougaloo College

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

"Imagining Freedom: Cultural Rhetorics, Digital Literacies, and Podcasting in Prison." College Composition and Communication 75.1 (2023): 224-241. https://publicationsncte.org/content/journals/10.58680/ccc202332676

"With the movie 'Till,' Mamie Till-Mobley's quest to educate the world about her son's lynching marches on." The Conversation (2022). https://theconversation.com/with-the-movie-till-mamie-till-mobleys-quest-to-educate-the-world-about-her-sons-lynching-marches-on-191554

“Community, Voice, Identity: The Principles of Cultural Rhetorics Pedagogies,” with Andrea Riley Mukavetz, Ana Milena Ribero, and Kimberly Wieser. constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space 4 (2021). https://constell8cr.com/issue-4/community-voice-identity-principles-of-cultural-rhetorics-pedagogies/

"Surviving the Jim Crow South: 'The Talk' as an African American Rhetorical Form." Journal for the History of Rhetoric 24.1 (2021): 24-38. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/26878003.2021.1881308

"Mamie Till-Mobley and the Efforts of Young Black People in Movements for Black Lives." Emmett Till Project (2020). https://www.emmetttillproject.com/brandon-erby

"The Changing Same of American Racism: African American Rhetoric and the Rejection of Normalcy." Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal 2 (2020). https://sparkactivism.com/volume-2-call/vol-2-intro/same-american-racism/

“Learning is an All-Black Thing: Literacy, Pedagogy, and Black Educational Institutions after Brown v. Board of Education.” Open Words: Access and English Studies 12 (2019): 110-25. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/openwords/v12/erby.pdf