April Brannon
Professor / English Education Coordinator
Biography
April Brannon is the coordinator of the English Education program and taught middle and high school prior to coming to the university. She earned her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2007 and has published in the fields of both Rhetoric and Composition and English Education. Her scholarly work has recently appeared inThe Alan Review, The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and English Journal,and she recently published a chapter in the book, Getting It In Writing.
Degrees
2007, Ph.D., Arizona State University
2000, M.A. , University of New Mexico
B.A., 1999, University of New Mexico
Research Areas
The Teaching of Writing, Poetry, Eco-composition, Place-Based Learning, Young Adult Literature.
Courses Regularly Taught
Composition, Writing Pedagogy, Rhetorics of Literacy, Young Adult Literature, Children's Literature.
Publications
Brannon, April (2011). The Sonata-Allegro of a Writing Teacher. In Stankevich, Deborah (Ed.), Getting It in Writing: The Quest to Become Outstanding and Effective Teachers of Writing. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Brannon, April. “The Intersection of Meaning: A Conversation with Emily Wing Smith.” The ALAN Review, vol. 37, no. 2, 2010, pp. 65-, https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v37i2.a.10.
Brannon, April. “Teaching They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky: An Opportunity for Educating about Displacement and Genocide.” The ALAN Review, vol. 36, no. 1, 2008, pp. 80-, https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v36i1.a.12.
Brannon, April. “Reading Nature as Text Through the Poetry of Mary Oliver.” The English Bulletin. University of Illinois. Winter 2006.
Office Hours
Spring 2025
Th 2:45pm-3:45pm
