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  • Ed.D. Texas A&M University , Commerce, 1977
  • M.A. Sam Houston State University , 1973
  • B.A. Converse College , 1971

Areas of Interest

  • Composition Theory and the Teaching of Writing
  • English Education
  • Critical Pedagogy

Selected Publications and Presentations

Books:

  • Michelle Comstock, Mary Ann Cain, and Lil Brannon.  Composing Public Space:  Teaching Writing in the Face of Private Interests.  Portsmouth, N.H.:  Boynton/Cook Publishers, 2010.
  • Lil Brannon, Sally Griffin, Karen Haag, Tony Iannone, Shana Woodward, and Cindy Urbanski. Thinking Out Loud on Paper. Portsmouth , N.H. : Heinemann, 2008.
  • Lil Brannon and Brenda Greene, Eds. Rethinking American Literature , Urbana : NCTE, 1997.
  • C.H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon. Critical Teaching and the Idea of Literacy . Portsmouth , N.H. : Boynton/Cook Publishers, l993.
  • C.H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon. Rhetorical Traditions and the Teaching of Writing . Portsmouth , N.H. : Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1984
  • Lil Brannon, V. Neverow-Turk and Melinda Knight. Writers Writing. Portsmouth , N.H. : Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1982.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters:

  • Tony Scott and Lil Brannon, “Valuation, Assessment and the Political Economy of First-Year Writing” in On Language and Value: Political Economies of Rhetoric and Composition. Eds. Wendy Olson, Siskanna Naynhaha and Victor Villanueva. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press (in press).
  • Lil Brannon and Cy Knoblauch, “Robert Boynton and the Making of Composition: English Educator, Editor, Publisher” in Composition’s Roots in English Education,” Ed. Patricia Lambert Stock. Portsmouth:  Heinemann/Boynton Cook, 2012. (124-134).
  • Lil Brannon, C. Urbanski, L. Manship, L. Arnold, and T. Iannone, “The Ebay-ification of Education:  Critical Literacy in a Consumerocracy,” in English Journal, 99 (Jan. 2010), 16-21.
  • Lil Brannon, C. Urbanski, J Courtney, S. Woodward, J. Reynolds, K. Haag, K. Mach, M. Kendrick, T. Iannone, and L. Manship. “The Five Paragraph Essay and the Deficit Model of Education, in English Journal, 98, No. 2 (Nov. 2008), 16-21.
  • C.H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon, “The Emperor (Still) Has No Clothes: Revisiting the Myth of Improvement.” Key Works on Teacher Response: An Anthology. Ed. Rick Straub, Portsmouth , NH : Heinemann, Boynton/Cook, 2006. 1-16.
  • C.H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon, “Pedagogy for the Bamboozled” in Writing with Elbow , Eds. P. Belanoff, et al. Logan : Utah Universities Press, 2002, pp. 65-83
  • Lil Brannon and Stephen M. North. “The Use of the Margins.” The Writing Center Journal, Fall 2000.
  • Lil Brannon. “(Dis)Missing Compulsary First-Year Composition” in Reconceiving Writing, edited by Joseph Petraglia, Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Earlbaum, 1997.
  • Lil Brannon. “The Problem with National Standards,” College Composition and Communication. October 1995.
  • Lil Brannon. “M(other): Lives on the Outside” Written Communication , 10, No.3 (July l993), 457-465.
  • Lil Brannon. “To Sir, with Love: Gender and the Imperatives of Liberatory Teaching,” in Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Teacher Change, Norwood , N.J. : Ablex, 1993. 151-54.

Selected GrantS:

  • National Writing Project Grant, UNC Charlotte Writing Project, $60,000 2012-13
  • National Writing Project Grant, UNC Charlotte Writing Project, $52,000, 2011-12
  • National Writing Project Grant, UNC Charlotte Writing Project, $52,000, 2010-11
  • State of New York Initiative for Technology, $300,000 (l996-97)
  • William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $150,000, Project Renaissance, 1996-98.

Courses Taught
Undergraduate

  • English 2100
  • English 3200 Approaches to Literature
  • English 3104 Adolescent Literature
  • English 4254 Teaching English and Communication Skills to Middle and Secondary School Learners

Graduate

  • EDCI 8020 Research in English Education
  • EDCI 8020 Readings in English Education
  • ENGL 6062 Invitational Summer Institute, UNC Charlotte Writing Project
  • ENGL 6274 Contexts and Issues in the Teaching of English
  • ENGL 6674 Applied Research Methods in the Teaching of English

Professional Appointments
Faculty Appointments

  • UNC Charlotte since 1998
  • University of Albany , SUNY, 1986-1998
  • New York University , 1980-1986
  • UNC Wilmington , 1978-1980
  • Texas A & M, Commerce, 1977-78

Administrative Appointments

  • Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 2006-present
  • Director, UNC Charlotte Writing Project, 2003-present
  • Coordinator, M.A. in English Education, 1998-present
  • Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Univ. at Albany , 1994-1998
  • Director, The Writing Center , Univ. at Albany , 1988-1994

Community Service

  • P.E.O.

Awards

  • W. Ross Winterowd Award for Critical Teaching and the Idea of Literacy, 1984
  • University at Albany , President’s Award for Excellence in Academic Service, 1996
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, Texas A&M Commerce, 1992