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Elaine Richardson, Ph.D is an American author and singer-songwriter known as Dr. E. She is originally from Cleveland, Ohio.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Elaine Richardson (Dr. E) is a motivational speaker, author, recording artist and performer, inspiring lives with her personal story of redemption from drug abuse and prostitution to becoming an award winning professor at three distinguished universities in the United States.

Dr. E is a graduate of the Cleveland Public Schools and East Technical High School. She received her BA and MA in English from Cleveland State University, (1991 & 1993). She holds a doctorate in English Composition and Applied Linguistics from Michigan State University, She taught at the University of Minnesota’s General College for two years before joining the English Department faculty at Penn State University, where she taught for nine years before taking her current post as Professor of Literacy Studies in the College of Education at The Ohio State University^(1). Dr. E is also an international recording artist, owner of independent record label Give Us Free Records^(2), and star of the one woman play, PHD to Ph.D based on her memoir’s story of elevation from addiction and street life.

Dr. E has published several books. Her first book, African American Literacies, (2003, Routledge), was a significantly revised version of her dissertation, focusing on teaching writing from the point of view of African American Language and Literacy traditions. Her second book, entitled Hiphop Literacies (2006 Routledge), is a study of Hiphop language use as an extension of Black folk traditions.(^3)

Richardson has also co-edited two volumes on African American rhetorical theory, Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations (2003, Routledge) and African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2004, Southern Illinois University Press), and one volume on Hiphop Feminism—Home Girls Make Some Noise (2007, Parker Publishing). (^4)

Dr. E's current book, is the gripping educational memoir, PHD to Ph.D: How Education Saved My Life about her personal evolution from the school of hard knocks to becoming an award winning university scholar and singer/songwriter.

As a soul singer / songwriter and performer, Dr. E has recorded four CDs: Coat of Flesh by Fleshcoat feat. Dr. E (2006) Real Life (EP) by Dr. E (2009) Elevated by Dr. E (2010). Elevated was nominated for Best New Artist of 2010 by Soultracks.com. Songs For The Struggle EP (2013)(^5)

Songs For The Struggle is the EP to accompany her recently released memoir PHD to Ph.D.: How Education Saved My Life, which chronicles her journey from the streets to becoming the person she is today. Both Elevated (2010) and Songs For The Struggle (2013) were produced by Billboard award-winning songwriter, Larry D. Marcus (The Rude Boys) and recorded by both Larry D. Marcus and Jon Guggenheim of C-Town Sound Inc. in Cleveland, Ohio. Several tunes Dr. E has penned have also been licensed to daytime television shows, All of My Children, The Young and the Restless, and Dharma & Greg. (^)6

Discography

Albums Coat of Flesh by Fleshcoat feat. Dr. E (2006) Elevated by Dr. E (2010)

EPs Real Life (EP) by Dr. E (2009) Songs For The Struggle EP (2013)

Singles “Deaky” (2013)

Published Books:

PHD to Ph.D: How Education Saved My Life. (2013). Philadelphia, PA: New City Community Press/Parlor Press. (Monograph)

Hip Hop Literacies (2006). New York & London: Routledge. (Monograph)

African American Literacies (2003). New York & London: Routledge. (Monograph)

Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminism Anthology, Co-editor with Dr. Gwendolyn Pough, Rachel Raimist, and Aisha Durham. (Parker Publishing, 2007)

African American Rhetoric(s): Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2004). Co-editor with Dr. Ronald Jackson, Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale, IL.

Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations (2003). Co-editor with Dr. Ronald Jackson. New York & London: Routledge.

Awards:

2004 Fulbright Scholar Award for Lecturing/Research, University of the West Indies, Mona September, 2004-December, 2004

2004 National Communication Association Book Award for edited collection, Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations

2005 Edward Fry Book Award, National Reading Conference for, African American Literacies (Routledge, 2003)

2006 TRiO Achiever Award, Mid-America Association of Educational Opportunity Program Personnel (MAEOPP), Indianapolis, Indiana

2011 Outstanding Woman of Columbus City of Columbus, Ohio February 19, 2011 Cleveland State University Distinguished Alumni Award (for outstanding contributions to the profession, community and Cleveland State.) College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Cleveland Ohio, 2007

2012 & 2013 Who's Who in Black Columbus

2012 National Council of Negro Women (Columbus, Ohio) Outstanding Achievement and Leadership Award, Contents 1 Biography 2 Discography 2.2 Albums 2.3 EPs 3 Published works 4 Awards 5 References 6 External links References

"Dr. E — Artist Biography." Give Us Free Records. http://giveusfreerecords.com/ (accessed August 6, 2013). Joy, Kevin. "OSU professor's jazz CD celebrates triumph over drug addiction and more | The Columbus Dispatch." The Columbus Dispatch | Central Ohio News, Sports, Arts & Classifieds. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2010/07/24/sweet-redemption.html (accessed August 6, 2013). Richardson, Elaine B.. PHD to Ph.D: How Education Saved My Life. Philadelphia, Pa.: New City Community, 2013. The Ohio State University. "College Directory : Education & Human Ecology." Education & Human Ecology. http://ehe.osu.edu/directory/?id=richardson.486 (accessed August 6, 2013).

External links Official website "Link". Dr. E Official website. Retrieved 5 August 2013. "Link". PHD to Ph.D book website. Retrieved 5 August 2013. "Link". Dr.E interview in The Columbus Dispatch Retrieved 5 August 2013. "Link". Dr. E biography at Sonic Bids Retrieved 5 August 2013.