Daughter of the US South, Dr. Khirsten L. Scott is a writer and community-driven educator who works across the disciplines of critical HBCU studies, rhetorical theory and writing studies, digital and Black studies, and critical pedagogy. Dr. Scott earned her BA in English Literature and Language from Tougaloo College, her MA in Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies from the University of Alabama, and her PhD in English, Rhetoric and Composition, from the University of Louisville.
Dr. Scott is currently working on her first book which explores Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their survival within US Higher Education. Within the city of Pittsburgh, she is the lead organizer and facilitator of HYPE Media (Homewood Youth-Powered and Engaged Media), a critical literacies program focused on youth-led story-making possibilities that respond to stigmatized narratives of Black girls, Black women, and Black communities. She is director and co-founder of DBLAC, Digital Black Lit and Composition, a virtual and in-person community offering writing support for Black scholars. She teaches at the University of Pittsburgh where she was awarded the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring (2020) for early-career faculty.
She has served as a critical education consultant for Bedford/St. Martin, a humanities-based publishing imprint of Macmillan Learning, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Association for Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). Dr. Scott has been invited to facilitate workshops and discussions with a number of community organizations, schools, and institutions of higher learning across the US.
Her work can be found on her YouTube Channel, Composition Studies journal, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Kairos journal, Prose Studies journal, the Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric, Mobility in Work in Composition, Bridging the Gap: Multimodality in Theory, and Practice and Kentucky Teacher Education Journal.
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