Professor of English and Education

Office: Fretwell 430F
Office: Colvard 5036
Phone: 704.687.3220
Phone: 704.687.4521
Email:

Education

• Ed.D. Texas A&M University , Commerce, 1977
• M.A. Sam Houston State University , 1973
• B.A. Converse College , 1971

Areas of Interest

• Composition Theory and the Teaching of Writing
• English Education
• Critical Pedagogy

Selected Publications and Presentations

Books:
Lil Brannon, Sally Griffin, Karen Haag, Tony Iannone, Shana Woodward, and Cindy Urbanski. Thinking Out Loud on Paper. Portsmouth , N.H. : Heinemann, 2008.

Lil Brannon and Brenda Greene, Eds. Rethinking American Literature , Urbana : NCTE, 1997.

C.H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon. Critical Teaching and the Idea of Literacy . Portsmouth , N.H. : Boynton/Cook Publishers, l993.

C.H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon. Rhetorical Traditions and the Teaching of Writing . Portsmouth , N.H. : Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1984

Lil Brannon, V. Neverow-Turk and Melinda Knight. Writers Writing. Portsmouth , N.H. : Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1982.

Recent Articles and Book Chapters:
C.H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon, “The Emperor (Still) Has No Clothes: Revisiting the Myth of Improvement.” Key Works on Teacher Response: An Anthology. Ed. Rick Straub, Portsmouth , NH : Heinemann, Boynton/Cook, 2006. 1-16.

C.H. Knoblauch and Lil Brannon, “Pedagogy for the Bamboozled" in Writing with Elbow , Eds. P. Belanoff, et al. Logan : Utah Universities Press, 2002, pp. 65-83

Lil Brannon and Stephen M. North. “The Use of the Margins.” The Writing Center Journal, Fall 2000.

Lil Brannon. “(Dis)Missing Compulsary First-Year Composition” in Reconceiving Writing, edited by Joseph Petraglia, Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Earlbaum, 1997.

Lil Brannon. "The Problem with National Standards," College Composition and Communication. October 1995.

Lil Brannon. "M(other): Lives on the Outside" Written Communication , 10, No.3 (July l993), 457-465.

Lil Brannon. "To Sir, with Love: Gender and the Imperatives of Liberatory Teaching," in Theoretical and Critical Perspectives on Teacher Change, Norwood , N.J. : Ablex, 1993. 151-54.

Selected Grants

• National Writing Project Grant, UNC-Charlotte Writing Project, $52,000, 2006-07
• National Writing Project Grant, UNC-Charlotte Writing Project, $52,000, 2005-06
• National Writing Project Grant, UNC-Charlotte Writing Project, $49,000, 2004-05
• State of New York Initiative for Technology, $300,000
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, $150,000, Project Renaissance, 1996-98.

Courses Taught
Undergraduate

• English 2100
• English 3200 Approaches to Literature
• English 3104 Adolescent Liteature
• English 4254 Teaching English and Communication Skills to Middle and Secondary School Learners

Graduate

• EDCI 8020 Research in English Education
• EDCI 8020 Readings in English Education
• ENGL 6062 Invitational Summer Institute, UNC Charlotte Writing Project
• ENGL 6274 Contexts and Issues in the Teaching of English
• ENGL 6674 Applied Research Methods in the Teaching of English

Professional Appointments
Faculty Appointments

• UNC Charlotte since 1998
• University of Albany , SUNY, 1986-1998
• New York University , 1980-1986
• UNC Wilmington , 1978-1980
• Texas A & M, Commerce, 1977-78

Administrative Appointments

• Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 2006-present
• Director, UNC Charlotte Writing Project, 2003-present
• Coordinator, M.A. in English Education, 1998-present
• Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Univ. at Albany , 1994-1998
• Director, The Writing Center , Univ. at Albany , 1988-1994

Community Service

• P.E.O.

Awards

• W. Ross Winterowd Award for Critical Teaching and the Idea of Literacy, 1984
• University at Albany , President's Award for Excellence in Academic Service, 1996
• Distinguished Alumni Award, Texas A&M Commerce, 1992