By Emily Sok, Published May 15 2024
Sherri Craig is an Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Tech University. She currently serves on the advisory committee at Virginia Tech’s Center for Rhetoric in Society, whose mission is to “to engage in and promote research about rhetoric and its uses in a variety of social contexts.” One previous project Craig worked on involved an analysis of institutional rhetorics and race-based public statements.
Much of Craig’s work has emphasized critical literacies, Black rhetorics, diversity in academia, writing across the curriculum, and WPA work. A collaborative publication by Craig and others, on labor demands in white-predominant institutions, shows us how creative rhetorics allow agency in white spaces. Through a multi-modal and multi-genre analysis, Craig and colleagues demonstrate what refusal can look like: “Refusal offers a turn away from the white supremacist toxic relationalities that capitalize on Black Indigenous People of Color’s labor.”
Take a look at some of Craig’s scholarship:
- Article: “Your Contract Grading Ain’t It”
- Article: “Foolery, Refusal and Possibility: On Labor Relationalities at Predominantly White Institutions”
- Article: “A Story-less Generation: Emergent WPAs of Color and the Loss of Identity through Absent Narratives”
- Article (About Craig): “Sherri Craig: Americans of all Races can Recognize Juneteenth”
The Virginia Community Writing Collaborative 