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Transformative Co-Creation: Epistemologies and Strategies for Collaborative Writing with Community Partners
Dr. Rachael Shah, Associate Professor, Writing Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 12:00 PM,
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Our engagement partnerships often call for texts that incorporate community partner insights—from syllabi for community-based classes, to grants that secure funds, to social media posts that showcase our partnerships, to academic articles about engaged research. The way we write these texts is the way we write our partnerships themselves. What might change if we were to reimagine how these texts are produced to more deeply synthesize community and academic insights? In this talk, Rachael Shah will draw on interviews with people who have co-created across university-community lines to explore not only the transformative potential of deep collaboration, but concrete techniques that have been used to infuse democratic ideals into the collaboration process.
For more information or questions, contact einhorncenter@cornell.edu or 607-255-1148
About Dr. Rachael Shah
Dr. Rachael Shah, a former community literacy worker, Rachael Shah is an associate professor of writing studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she directs the Nebraska Writing Project engagement initiative and teaches classes on community-based pedagogies, public rhetorics, and teacher education. Her book Rewriting Partnerships: Community Perspectives on Community-Based Learning won the IARSLCE (International Association for Service-Learning and Community Engagement) Publication of the Year Award, as well as the Coalition for Community Writing’s Outstanding Book Award for 2020. Her first publication was a participatory action research project co-authored with local youth researchers, and much of her academic and public work continues to be co-written with community partners or students. Shah has coordinated community-based learning programs for over 15 years, including guiding the Wildcat Writers program as it grew from a handful of teacher participants to a program that involved 1,200 students a year. She has taught community-engaged classes at the elementary, high school, undergraduate, and graduate level, and she loves supporting instructors as they explore community-based pedagogies.
