User:Zapytowskil1/Malea Powell

About
Malea Powell currently is a professor at Michigan State University. She works in the College of Arts & Letters at the renowned University located in East Lansing. She is also involved in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies as a faculty member. She is an editor of many works which include College Composition & Communication, constellations: a journal of culture rhetorics, and SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literature. She is also on the board of Cultural Rhetorics Consortium. The Consortium is a space on the internet where you can share your thoughts on cultural rhetoric and sign up for events. Besides being a scholar, she is a well renowned poet and author. She is currently working on the book,This is a Story. The book is set to be about indigenous rhetoric production in North America. Her ancestry stems from Eastern Shawnee, Indian Miami, and Euro American mixed-blood. Besides her accomplishments, she enjoys spending time with native women artists and poets, does beadwork, and writes novels about romance.

Education
Malea Powell has earned a Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and a PH.D. She received her Bachelors degree in English at Indiana University at Kokomo in 1992. She next received her Masters degree in English at Miami University in 1994. She went on to receive her PH.D in English also at Miami University in 1998.

Works
One of Powell's published journals is called Blood and Scholarship: One mixed-bloods story. It was published on April 1st, 1999. The category of journal is race, rhetoric, and composition. The journal is about Powells roots as a writer as it pertains to her heritage. Much of her influence came from her grandfather who gave her much of her inspiration as a writer. Another one of Powell's works include Rhetorics of Survivance: How America Indians use writing. The journal was published on February 1st, 2002. This journal discusses the conversation of two modern American Indians, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins and Charles Alexander Eastman, who talk about what it means to be an Indian relating to the terms of rhetoric and survivance. Another journal created by Malea Powell is called Down by the River, or how Susan La Flesche Picotte can teach us about alliance. The journal was published on September 1st, 2004. The journal is about how the European expansion into Africa and the America's 500 years ago had various negative effects on the natives, making them minorities to the colonizers.

Courses Taught

 * WRA 853 Workshop in Rhetoric & Writing, MSU Spring 2016.
 * WRA 805 Histories & Theories of Rhetoric, MSU, Fall 2014, 2015.
 * WRA 872 Decolonial Methods, MSU, Summer 2015.
 * WRA 891 Writing Workshop for Graduate Students, MSU, Spring 2015.
 * WRA 891 Oral History Methods, MSU, Summer 2014.
 * AL 882 Co-taught with Dean Rehberger. Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric, MSU, Spring 2004, 2006, 2012, 2014.
 * AL 885 Rhetoric & Writing Research Colloquium, MSU AY2004-05. Fall 2013, 2016.
 * AL 827 Critical & Cultural Theory, MSU, Summer 2011, 2013.
 * AL 848 Theory & Methodology in Cultural Rhetorics, MSU, Spring 2005, 2007, 2011, 2013.
 * AL 891 American Indian Rhetorics, MSU, Spring 2012.