Alexandra Cavallaro
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Bio
Director, Center for the Study of Correctional Education
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
B.A., Kutztown University
Courses/Teaching
Undergraduate:First-Year Writing
Writing in the Public Sphere
Writing Center Studies
Graduate:Computers and Composition
Writing Center Studies
The Western Rhetorical Tradition II
(Alternative) Sites of Praxis: Writing Pedagogy and Rhetorical Education in an Age of Mass Incarceration
Specialization
Composition/Rhetoric
Research and Teaching Interests
Literacy Studies; Rhetorical Education; Queer and Feminist Theory; Multimodal Composition; Critical Prison Studies; Prison Education
Selected Publications:
Cavallaro, Alexandra J. “Making Citizens Behind Bars (and the Stories We Tell About It): Queering Approaches to Prison Literacy Programs.” Literacy in Composition Studies 7.1 (2019).
Rowan, Karen, and Alexandra J. Cavallaro. “Toward a Model for Preparatory Community Listening.” Community Literacy Journal 13.1 (2018).
Cavallaro, Alexandra J. and Melissa K. Forbes. “Inside Voices: Collaborative and Multimodal Writing in a Prison Environment.” Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Art of Persuasion 16 (2016). http://www.harlotofthearts.org/index.php/harlot/article/view/323/188
Cavallaro, Alexandra J. “Fighting Biblical ‘Textual Harassment’: Queer Rhetorical Pedagogies in the Extracurriculum.” enculturation: a journal of rhetoric, writing, and culture 18 (Spring 2015).
Cavallaro, Alexandra J. and Patrick W. Berry, with Elaine Vázquez, Carlos R. DeJesús, and Naomi García. “Sustaining Narratives of Hope: Literacy, Multimodality, and the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School.” English Education 46.4 (July 2014): 279-299.
Cavallaro, Alexandra J. and Patrick W. Berry, with Elaine Vázquez, Carlos R. DeJesús, and Naomi García. “(Re)voicing Teaching, Learning, and Possibility in Paseo Boricua.” Youth Community Inquiry: New Media for Community and Personal Growth. Eds. Bertram C. Bruce, Ann Peterson Bishop, and Nama R. Budhatoki. New York: Peter Lang Press, 2014.