By Emily Sok, Published May 28, 2024
Candace Epps-Robertson is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research centers on the social histories of literacy and cultural rhetorics, in particular how these practices develop and respond to oppression. As described by Beth Godbee, founder of Heart, Head, Hands, Epps-Robertson’s scholarship “ranges from reflecting on her journey as part of the BTS global fandom ARMY to curating museum exhibits to teaching writing with visual art and music to caring holistically for ourselves as writers and to navigating burnout.”
This podcast describes Epps-Robertson’s creative course design that captures crossover between culture and rhetoric. Her BTS Syllabus Project is a collaborative crowdsourcing resource repository that attempts to make BTS-related resources more accessible for educators. It catalogues genres (video, article, user-generated material, books, book-chapters, etc.) of material that can be used when incorporating high-interest pop culture (in this case, K-pop) into instruction.
Take a look at more of Epps-Robertson’s scholarship:
The Virginia Community Writing Collaborative 